NOTES AND QUOTES for a Monday in the Napa Valley:

A group of 18 players selected to represent Northern California in USA Baseball’s 15-and-under national teams Identification Series will hold a training camp this week at the Veterans Home of California in Yountville. It begins today.

The Northern California All-Stars will play games Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at 5:30 p.m. at Cleve Borman Field.

Tuesday’s game is against CCB Legends, a 16-and-under team from San Jose. The game Wednesday will be against a 19-and-under Sonoma County High School All-Star team whose players include Danny Pardini (Justin-Siena), Ben Graff (Sonoma Valley), and Spencer Finkbohner (Casa Grande-Petaluma).

The game Thursday is against Kali Baseball from San Jose.

The NorCal All-Stars team was selected via an open tryout process held over the summer. The team is split evenly among players born in 1994 and those born in 1995. The younger group will be part of the 108-player pool for selection to this year’s 14-and-under U.S. National Team, which will play in the Pan Am Games in Ecuador in October. The older half of the team will be competing for invitations to the 2010 16-and-under U.S. National Team trials next summer.

The team includes two players who played on last year’s 14-and-under national team: Brandon Viceral (Pleasanton) was the starting first baseman and Jimmy Wallace (San Jose) threw a perfect game in the gold medal game against Guatemala, hitting 89 mph on the radar gun as a 14-year old.

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Left-hander Matt Yourkin picked up his third save of the Eastern League season, striking out two batters in one inning of work as Connecticut beat Erie (Pa.) 6-4 in a Double-A game Friday.

Yourkin, a Napa High graduate, also got the save in Connecticut’s 4-3 win last Tuesday over Akron, Ohio.

For the year, he has a 4-1 record and 1.99 earned run average in 41 games. In 541⁄3 innings, he has 60 strikeouts and 22 walks. He also has nine holds.

Connecticut is a minor league affiliate of the San Francisco Giants.

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Ken Tronstad of Napa placed fifth in the hammer throw and seventh in the discus throw at the National Senior Games Championships, which were held last week at Stanford University.

At age 74, Tronstad was the oldest competitor in his group. His goal was to finish in the Top 10 at the national level, and he did exactly that.

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Napa Valley tennis players are doing well on all levels in Northern California events.

At the San Marin Junior Open, Danielle Mirda won the girls 16’s singles title, beating Monique Origel of Modesto in the quarterfinals (6-0, 6-0), Kristy Jorgensen of San Carlos in the semifinals (6-2, 6-2), and Emily Gould of Santa Rosa in the finals (6-3, 6-1).

In girls 18’s singles, Maja Jeramaz of Napa lost in the quarterfinals to Laura Posylkin of Novato (6-1, 6-0).

At the Green Valley Open and NTRP Challenge, Gilbert Lima and Ken Leahy of Napa lost in the semifinals of NTRP men’s 3.0 doubles to George Kalis and Jerry Lewis of Fairfield (6-1, 7-5).

Leahy won the NTRP men’s 3.0 singles title, recording wins over Franz Riedel of Clayton in the quarterfinals (6-0, 6-4), Scott Cronk of Santa Rosa in the semifinals (6-2, 6-2), and Brian Mui of Walnut Creek in the finals (5-7, 6-4, 6-1). In a quarterfinal-round match, Lima beat Joseph Dennison of Healdsburg (6-2, 3-6, 11-9).

Zdenek Zahradnicek and Yannick Rousseau of Napa won the NTRP men’s 4.0 doubles title when Michael Connerley and Jason Pfister of Fairfield withdrew in the finals.

In NTRP men’s 4.0 singles, it was Rousseau over Brian McConnell of Walnut Creek in the quarterfinals (6-1, 6-3).

Vincent Vince-Cruz of American Canyon captured the NTRP men’s 4.5 singles crown, beating Josh Capelle of Menlo Park in the semis (6-0, 7-5) and Roberto Guerrero of San Jose in the finals (6-3, 6-1).

Beverly Leonard of Napa and Nancy Coursen of Yountville won the NTRP women’s 3.0 doubles title, beating Anne Ridens and Wendy Heurtelou of Fairfield in the semifinals, 7-6 (2), 1-6, 6-4, and Linda Lewis of Penngrove and Anne Howatt of Petaluma in the finals (6-3, 6-3).

In NTRP women’s 3.5 doubles, Joni Kelly and Cynthia Glasier of Napa lost in the finals to Melissa Wickenkamp and Laura Stansfield of Petaluma (6-3, 6-3).

In the semifinals, it was Kelly and Glasier over Becky Estreich of Sebastopol and Gwendolyn Baert of Rohnert Park (6-1, 6-4) and Wickenkamp and Stansfield over Ruth Berggren and Jan Edwards of Napa (6-1, 6-2).

In the quarterfinals, Berggren and Edwards won their match, beating Machiko Shimada and Gail Zanoli of Fairfield (0-6, 6-4, 10-7).

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