NOTES AND QUOTES for a Monday in the Napa Valley:

After a year away from the game, former Napa High School standout Mackenzey Bard is returning to softball.

Bard, who turned down a scholarship from San Jose State this past year, will start school at Fresno City College this month.

She enrolled in cosmetology school last fall and will soon have her license. But six months into beauty school, she told her mom, Shelley Bard, a former Vintage High and Napa Valley College pitcher, that she misses the game and wanted to return to it.

Bard had a very good senior year for Napa High in 2008, earning Pitcher of the Year on the All-Napa County team, Second Team Overall as a multi-purpose player on the All-State team by CalHiSports.com, and First-Team on The Sacramento Bee’s All-Metro team.

Bard also set the record for the most career victories for any Napa Valley high school, with 67.

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Sarah Chang of American Canyon carded an 81 to win the girls 12-14 division of the Bill Krause Memorial Junior, a Junior Golf Association of Northern California tournament which was played Friday at Green Tree Golf Club in Vacaville.

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Napa’s Caroline DeVincenzi, a Justin-Siena graduate, was named to the 2008-09 Northwest Conference Scholar-Athlete list as a softball player for Lewis & Clark College of Portland, Ore. It recognizes student-athletes who have achieved a cumulative GPA of at least 3.50.

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The eight-team American Legion Baseball Western Regional Tournament, sponsored by B&L Properties, starts on Thursday and goes through Aug. 10 at Yarbrough Field in Laurel Creek Park in Fairfield.

Fairfield, the host team, is joined by the state champions from Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado, Hawaii, Arizona, California and Utah for the Region 8 tournament. It’s a qualifier for nationals.

In Thursday’s games, it’s Nevada vs. New Mexico (9 a.m.), followed by Colorado vs. Hawaii, then Arizona vs. California (4 p.m.), and Utah vs. Fairfield.

More information is available at fairfieldexpos.com.

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Third baseman Brett Wallace of the Triple-A Sacramento River Cats is the top home run hitter in CIF North Coast Section baseball history, according to CalHiSports.com. As a star for Justin-Siena, he hit 32 career home runs. Only two Northern California players have hit more, CalHiSports said.

Wallace, who went to the Oakland Athletics organization as part of the Matt Holliday trade last month with St. Louis, was the CalHiSports.com Small Schools State Player of the Year for Justin-Siena.

He was 3-for-4 with a double and two RBIs in Sacramento’s 8-5 Pacific Coast League win Thursday over Salt Lake.

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Justin Clayton, a freshman from Napa, is listed among the top newcomers on the defensive line in Washington State’s 2009 football outlook.

Clayton will attend Washington State on a full-ride scholarship in the fall. He was named as the Marin County Athletic League’s Linemen of the Year, Napa County Defensive Player of the Year, CalHiSports.com small schools first-team All-State, third-team All-Golden State by Scout.com, second-team All-Metro by the San Francisco Chronicle, and second-team California Division 3 All-State by MaxPreps for Justin-Siena, the 2008 CIF North Coast Section Division IV champion.

Clayton, a 2009 graduate, was rated No. 33 amongst Northern California recruits by Rivals.com. Scout.com also ranked him No. 10 among defensive tackles in the West. Washington State begins practice Aug. 9 at Martin Stadium.

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San Francisco Giants first baseman Rich Aurilia and former Giants player Dave Roberts are planning to produce 1,800 bottles of a 2007 Red Stitch Winery Cabernet. It’s a Napa Valley product that the two are involved with.

“We don’t want to be the baseball guys that make wine,” Aurilia said on FanHouse.com. “We want to be two guys that make a really good bottle of wine that anybody can enjoy.”

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UC Berkeley has been picked to finish second and Stanford sixth in the 2009 Pacific-10 Conference preseason football poll of media members who regularly cover the league

USC was the media’s preseason choice to win the conference title for an eighth consecutive season. The Trojans were listed in the top spot by 28 of the 32 voters participating in the poll.

Cal reports to training camp Thursday and opens its 2009 season with a nationally televised ESPN2 game against Maryland at Memorial Stadium in Berkeley on Sept. 5.

“I’m excited about the prospects of the season,” Cal coach Jeff Tedford said on the school’s athletic Web site. “I know the players are working very hard, and I’m happy with the team chemistry and how the leadership has surfaced.”

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