NOTES AND QUOTES for a Wednesday in the Napa Valley:

Third baseman Brett Wallace’s tie-breaking solo home run to right field in the ninth inning gave the Sacramento River Cats a 2-1 Triple-A Pacific Coast League win over the host Portland Beavers Sunday.

Wallace’s blast came on the first pitch.

The former Justin-Siena High School and Arizona State star was traded by St. Louis as part of the Matt Holliday deal last month with the Oakland Athletics organization. Wallace was the Cardinals’ first-round pick — the 13th overall selection — in the 2008 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft.

He was the Pacific-10 Conference’s two-time Player of the Year.

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David Goodwill of Napa won the 30-lap main event of a Northern California Modified Association sprint car race Saturday at All American Speedway in Roseville. Starting at the rear of the field, Goodwill took the lead on lap 4. A caution flag came out on lap 16, bunching up the field for the re-start. It was Goodwill’s fifth win of the 2009 racing season.

Goodwill set the fast time for the evening with a 13.64-second lap, averaging 79.15 mph for the 3/8-mile paved track.

The local driver, who is with DDS Racing, also won the trophy dash, starting on the outside of the second row and taking the lead on lap 2.

Goodwill made it a sweep, taking the lead on lap 5 and winning the 10-lap heat race after starting at the rear of the field.

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The number of boys and girls playing high school athletics in the state remains steady, despite difficult economic times, according to the 2009 California Interscholastic Federation Sports Participation Survey.

The survey shows a total of 736,727 high school student-athletes participating in sports, an increase of 1.6 percent or 1,224 competitors from 2007, the last time the CIF conducted such an overview.

The survey, completed by the CIF’s 1,442 member schools, is part of the National Federation of State High School Associations nationwide survey that measures the number of students competing in sports across the country.

The sport of lacrosse experienced a big increase with a combined gender-participation total of 12,321. It’s an increase of 45 percent measured to the 2007 sum.

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The UC Berkeley football team, which is ranked in the Top-25 in nearly every preseason publication, opens its 2009 training camp on Friday. The Bears are scheduled to conduct 24 practice sessions over 23 days during the camp that culminates with Fan Appreciation Day on Aug. 29.

Four of Cal’s first five games will be televised nationally. The Bears’ Sept. 5 season-opener at home against Maryland (ESPN2) and the Sept. 19 contest at Minnesota (ESPN or ESPN2) will be followed by back-to-back ABC games at Oregon and against USC on Sept. 26 and Oct. 3, respectively.

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The Golden State Warriors will open their 2009-10 NBA season at ORACLE Arena on Oct. 28 at 7:30 p.m. when the club plays host to the Houston Rockets.                                                                                                                                              

Golden State is slated to make eight national television appearances this season, with six games scheduled on ESPN and two appearances on TNT.

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