NOTES AND QUOTES for a Monday in the Napa Valley:

John Boyett started at free safety and had five total tackles in the University of Oregon’s 52-6 Pacific-10 Conference win over Washington State Saturday night at Autzen Stadium in Eugene, Ore.

Boyett, who is from Napa, had three solo tackles and two assisted stops for the Ducks (4-1 overall, 2-0 Pac-10), who have won four in a row after a season-opening loss at Boise State. Oregon came into the game ranked No. 16 in the country.

Boyett is a redshirt freshman who starred for Napa High School, earning special-mention All-America and State Player of the Year honors by maxpreps.com.

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Vintage High head football coach Billy Smith said he’s looking for his team to get better and better each week.

“It’s a tough start, but they’re still a good football team,” Bethel coach Jeff Turner said after the Jaguars’ 20-6 win over Vintage in a nonleague game last week. “They’re right there, they are right there.”

The loss puts the Crushers 0-4, with Friday’s pre-league game at Del Oro-Loomis (4-0) to go before the start of the Monticello Empire League season.

“Billy does a good job with the kids,” said Turner. “They’ve got good stuff going on up here. They’ve got great numbers, which is always good.”

How much does Turner like playing in Memorial Stadium?

“All I know is, I need to talk to the (athletic directors). I need this grass rolled up and taken down to Bethel. That’s what I would like.”

The stadium will be rebuilt following the 2009 season and a synthetic all-weather field will be put in, replacing the bermuda grass.

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Jason Lehman had one of his best days for Occidental College, catching three second-half touchdown passes in the Tigers’ 42-14 win over Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Saturday.

Lehman, a Justin-Siena graduate, had a third-quarter scoring reception of 19 yards from Scott Saunders. He also caught TD passes of 30 and 24 yards, respectively, in the fourth quarter for Occidental (2-1, 1-0 Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference)

Lehman led Occidental with five catches for 90 yards.

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Linebacker Kevin Harrell had a team-high 11 tackles for Southern Oregon University, but the Raiders lost to Western Oregon Saturday, 23-0, in Monmouth, Ore.

Harrell is a Vintage graduate.

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Jocelyn Phillips was second in the 1,000-yard freestyle for the Florida State women’s swimming and diving team in a meet Saturday against Florida International University in Tallahassee, Fla.

Phillips swam at Vintage High and for the Napa Valley Swim Team. She was a three-time All-American and two-time team MVP at Vintage. She also qualified for the U.S. Olympic Trials.

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Spencer Schwandt had the assist on San Francisco State’s first goal of the game against Cal State Stanislaus at Warrior Field in Turlock Friday. The two teams battled to a 3-3 double overtime tie in California Collegiate Athletic Association men’s soccer action.

Schwandt is from Napa and played soccer at Vintage.

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The Napa United under-19 girls soccer team improved its record to 3-0-1 with wins over Santa Rosa’s Laguna Shooting Stars on Saturday, 6-0, and Sonoma, 3-2, Sunday.

In Saturday’s game, Jessica Friedlander started it off, scoring off an assist from Allison Aylard, followed by a goal from Megan Zoller, assisted by Friedlander.

In the second half, Anna Marie Scaduto scored off an assist by Barbara Bakh, followed by a goal from Kady Augustus, assisted by Sam Upton. Zoller’s goal was assisted by Haley Oster and Oster finished off the scoring with the assist going to Zoller.

Excellent goal keeping was turned in by Sarah Gonzalez and Michaella Vincent.

On Sunday, Sam Upton scored two goals on free kicks, with the other goal coming on a corner kick by Allison Aylard starting off the second half.

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Former Vacaville High standout Terrance Dailey ran for 111 yards on 34 carries and a touchdown in Sacramento State’s 31-14 Big Sky Conference win over Portland State on Saturday. Dailey transferred to Sacramento from the University of Washington and started for Vacaville’s 2006 CIF Sac-Joaquin Section Division I title-winning team.

The victory was the first of the year for the Hornets (1-3, 1-1 Big Sky).

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