The Napa Roadrunners Blue lost to the San Ramon Stompers, 8-1, in the championship game after defeating the Napa Roadrunners White, 9-8, and the Benicia Outlaws, 8-2, to get to the final.

Erin Halsey had two hits and two RBIs to lift MIV to a 12-6 win over Fazerrati’s Pizza in Napa Valley Fastpitch Softball Association play at Kiwanis Park.

The Sonoma County Homewreckers beat the Sac City Rollers 119-56 in women’s roller derby action in Rohnert Park last weekend.

R & L/Coleman scored three runs in the third inning, four in the fourth and three in the fifth to win by the 10-run mercy rule on Thursday, improving to 11-2-1 in league play.

The Napa Babe Ruth 13-year-old All-Stars will compete in the NorCal District 3 Tournament in Antioch, July 4-8.

My backyard neighbor Tom McNicholas sent me an e-mail the other day, and Tom — once a Brooklyn boy and lifetime Brooklyn Dodgers fan in the “Borough of Kings” — asked me if I knew about a book that was written on how my beloved New York Giants had stolen the 1951 National League pennant from “Dem Bums” from Brooklyn.

I can’t guarantee that any reader who writes a long e-mail criticizing two paragraphs of one of my stories will get the same response, but George Slinsen had a good point.

Summer is officially here! For the bass fisherman, this is the season when some of the most exciting fishing can be found.

NOTES AND QUOTES for a Friday in the Napa Valley:

Memo to 1986: Sorry, but we’re stealing your NBA draft.

Here’s a look at the latest local angling action:

Mike Copithorne (middle) of Napa’s Off the Hook Fly Fishing Travel outfitter landed this rare permit. Fishing reporter Bill Ryan estimated it to be about 20 pounds, and said dedicated anglers have fished a whole lifetime without catching one.

The 2009 Raider Nation Celebration is set for Saturday, Aug. 8, from 1 to 5 p.m., at the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum.

I’ve changed my mind about the L.A. Clippers picking Blake Griffin.