NOTES AND QUOTES for a Wednesday in the Napa Valley:

Sign-ups for a fall junior team tennis league, which is available to boys and girls, ages 8-10 and 11-13, are Thursday from 6:30 to 8 p.m. and Saturday from 9 to 11 a.m. at the Napa Valley College tennis courts.

No previous tennis experience is required. The league runs from Sept. 17 through Oct. 31. Practices are on Thursdays from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. and matches are on Saturdays from 1 to 2 p.m.

The $65 fee is required at the time of registration. The first 30 players to register will receive a free racket.

For more information, contact Gwen Knudsen at 337-4044 or e-mail Heath Rosa at napajuniortennis@gmail.com.

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Justin-Siena High School’s football team, the defending CIF North Coast Section Division IV champion, will scrimmage St. Patrick/St. Vincent-Vallejo Friday at 7 p.m. at Dodd Stadium.

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Austin Keen, a running back, scored five touchdowns for the Napa Raiders in the junior pee wee division of a youth football jamboree in Rio Vista last week.

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Robert Jordan, the president and CEO of Justin-Siena, will be my guest in September on Napa Community Public Access-TV Channel 28. The half-hour show, “Register Sports with Marty James,” airs Sundays at 9 p.m. and Mondays at noon.

Jordan takes over for Brother Robert J. Wickman, F.S.C., who stepped down after three years as president and is on a year-long sabbatical. Jordan had been the assistant director of the De La Salle Christian Brothers’ provincial headquarters’ office of education. Justin-Siena is a Catholic college preparatory high school, serving students from Napa, Sonoma and Solano counties. It is part of the worldwide network of schools sponsored by the De La Salle Christian Brothers.

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Football practice for Chapman University, which has John Paniagua of Napa, began last week in Orange Paniagua is a junior linebacker who also played football at Vintage High School and Solano Community College.

The Panthers, who are seeking a third straight winning season, will host Menlo College on Sept. 12 to kick off the 2009 campaign.

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The San Francisco Giants will honor 2000 National League MVP and five-time All-Star Jeff Kent with a commemorative plaque on the Giants Wall of Fame  Saturday. The ceremony will begin at 3 p.m., with fans invited to the induction at AT&T Park just off of Willie Mays Plaza, along the King Street sidewalk.

The Giants Wall of Fame is a living tribute to the organization’s greatest players.

Kent earned his place on the Wall of Fame through his six-year career donning the orange and black, in which he earned All-Star honors in San Francisco three times as well as being named the 2000 National League MVP. In his six seasons in San Francisco, the four-time Silver Slugger Award Winner (2000-2002, 2005) hit .297 with 247 doubles, 175 home runs, and 689 RBIs, which are all the most recorded by a Giants second baseman in franchise history.

With Kent’s induction, a total of 44 Giants legends will have bronze plaques honoring them and their baseball contributions on the northern wall of AT&T Park along King Street for all baseball fans to enjoy. The Wall of Fame is accessible to fans and the public 24 hours a day, year round.

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