NOTES AND QUOTES for a Wednesday in the Napa Valley:

Brett Wallace is batting .297 with 120 hits, including 21 doubles, 15 home runs and 47 RBIs for the Sacramento River Cats, a Triple-A team, which begins the Pacific Coast League playoffs against Tacoma, Wash., today.

The winner of the first-round series between Sacramento and Tacoma will face the winner of the series between Memphis and Albuquerque, also set to begin today.

Wallace’s solo home run in the fifth inning helped Sacramento to a 10-4 victory over the Salt Lake Bees on Monday. Wallace went to Justin-Siena High School.

Sacramento finished the regular season 86-57, its third-best record in franchise history. The River Cats are an affiliate of the Oakland Athletics.

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Former Napa resident Scott McCarron tied for 36th Sunday at the Deutsche Bank Championship, but was eliminated after the second leg of the PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup. McCarron’s final ranking was 82nd.

McCarron, a Vintage High graduate, had rounds of 70, 70, 69 and 70 for a 5-under-par 279 total and won $31,537.

He has three Top-10 and six Top-25 finishes with earnings of $962,319 this year.

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Matt Yourkin is 6-2 with a 2.42 earned run average and eight saves as the closer for Double-A Connecticut. The Napa High graduate also has nine holds for Connecticut, an affiliate of the San Francisco Giants, which begins the Eastern League playoffs today against New Britain, Conn.

Connecticut (83-59) tied the single season franchise record for wins set back in 2001.

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Lindsay Brown is off to a very good start in 2009 for the Sonoma State volleyball team, earning most valuable player honors at the Seawolf Spike and CWU Invitational. Brown, a Napa High graduate, averaged 10.73 assists per set at the Seawolf Spike and 10.92 per set at the CWU Invitational.

Brown, a senior setter, has helped Sonoma State (8-0) to a .292 hitting percentage in eight matches, including a tournament high .311 clip this past weekend.

In three-plus years, Brown continues to add to her record total of career assists. She already has 303 assists this year.

Brown is also averaging 1.07 kills and 1.75 digs per game for the Seawolves, who are ranked 15th in the country by the American Volleyball Coaches Association in the NCAA-Division II poll.

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If starting free safety T.J. Ward — who is out with a high ankle sprain — can’t go Saturday in the University of Oregon’s home opener at Autzen Stadium in Eugene, the Ducks will call on redshirt freshman John Boyett of Napa.

Ward was Oregon’s leading tackler in the opener against Boise State.

Boyett had five total tackles (two solo stops and three assists) in the Ducks’ 19-8 loss to Boise State. He is listed No. 2 on the depth chart, but played most of the third and fourth quarters due to Ward’s injury.

Boyett starred at Napa High, earning special-mention All-America and State Player of the Year honors by maxpreps.com.

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Rachel Pickett has started each of the first five games of the season for the Fresno State women’s soccer team. Pickett is a sophomore defender from Napa.

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Emily Talley started off her sophomore year for the University of Colorado women’s golf team by playing in the National Golf Coaches Association Match Play Championship in Daytona Beach, Fla.

Talley, a Napa resident, tied for 29th in qualifying, shooting rounds of 72 and 79 for a 151 total at the LPGA International. After the first round, she was tied for third place in the individual standings. Colorado opened the 2009-10 season with a 15th-place finish in the qualifying round.

Colorado lost a pair of matches on Monday. In the first round, the Buffaloes fell to Duke, a team which has won five NCAA titles. Colorado lost its second match to Mississippi.

In Tuesday’s match, Colorado lost to Central Florida, 3-2.

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Santa Rosa Junior College’s football team, which won its opener 12-6 over Reedley, is No. 18 in this week’s JCGridiron.com Dirty 30 rankings.

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