Carlyle, Jackson each capture
Big Eight crowns

NOTES AND QUOTES for a Tuesday in the Napa Valley:

It’s been a very good track and field season for Susan Jackson and Fletcher Carlyle III of Sacramento City College.

Jackson, a Napa High School graduate, won Big 8 Conference titles in the triple jump and high jump, and placed second in the long jump. Her high jump of 5-9 broke the Big 8 meet record of 5-5 and also broke a 27-year old Sac City school record of 5-8. She was named as the Field Event Athlete of the Year in the conference.

Sac City won the Big 8 women’s team championship and head coach Lisa Bauduin was named Coach of the Year. Last week at Diablo Valley College-Pleasant Hill, Jackson won the Northern California Championship in the high jump, going 5-7.

Carlyle, a standout from Vintage, won the Big 8 Conference high jump at San Joaquin Delta College-Stockton last month, clearing 7 feet, 1⁄4 inch, which broke the meet record of 7-0.

He also won the Northern California Championship, clearing 7-21⁄2 for a new personal record. Carlyle had three clearances of 7-0 or better in the meet.

Both Jackson and Carlyle advance to the California Community College Athletic Association Track and Field Championships Friday and Saturday at the College of San Mateo. They are the top seeded high jumpers in the state.

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Katrina Husted has qualified for the Central California Zone all-star water polo travel team.

Corinne Schafle, Lexi Baldwin, Crysta Deus and Husted, all members of Napa Valley Water Polo, qualified for the year-round zone training teams. Husted was selected from those teams, joining 13 of the best players in the Central California zone for the Junior Olympic Development Championships, to be held at the Schall Aquatic Center on the UC Davis campus over the Memorial Day weekend. Players born in 1991 and 1992 are eligible.

The first phase of the Olympic Development Championships will be to determine the Zone Championship team through a tournament that takes place over two days, then the athletes are divided up by position and skills.

These teams play a tournament format. National coaches observe play with the goal of selecting 33 players for the national junior training team and then selecting 15 players to travel as the National Junior Team, which will compete in international competition over the summer.

Husted is the first NVWP junior division member to qualify as a Zone All-Star player. She has played just over two years of water polo for NVWP, was selected all-Monticello Empire League and the league MVP, and MVP for her play as a defender/attacker for Vintage High in 2008.

Husted will return to play at Vintage next year as a captain.

Sarah Saunders (2007) and Lexi Baldwin (2008) are previous NVWP Zone All-Star qualifiers.

NVWP coach Julian Szmidt was the head coach of the Central California Youth All-Star team, stepping down back in December. Under Szmidt, Central California finished second (2005), fourth (2006), fifth (2007) and sixth (2004, 2008).

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David Goodwill of Napa won his heat race, trophy dash, and the 30-lap main event for sprint cars at the 32nd annual Vukovich Classic Saturday night at the 1⁄3-mile Madera Speedway.

Goodwill, who competes in the Northern California Modified Association, emerged from the pack and overtook polesitter David Burchett of Tracy, going to the outside on lap 8.

“Our car was working really well on the top and I knew I had 30 laps so I wasn’t in too big of a hurry to get to the front,” Goodwill said on the Madera Speedway Web site. “This was a special night for us, that is for sure.”

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Justin-Siena baseball and softball teams begin the Marin County Athletic League playoffs today. The Braves are at home against San Marin-Novato in baseball at 4:30 p.m.

Justin-Siena is at Sir Francis Drake-San Anselmo in softball at 4:30 p.m.

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Vintage High will be hosting the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section Boys Individual and Doubles Tennis Championships Thursday and Friday.

The top 16 Division I individual and doubles teams will compete in the two-day tournament on the Vintage courts.

Play will begin at 9 a.m. on Thursday with two rounds of singles and two rounds of doubles. The tournament will resume on Friday at 10 a.m. with the semifinals and finals in both singles and doubles.

For more information, contact Dave Shipp, the Vintage athletic director and tournament director, at 299-2552.

E-mail Executive Sports Editor Marty James at mjames@napanews.com or call 256-2223.

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