Lindsay Brown, a senior for Sonoma State and a graduate of Napa High School, was named to the 2009 All-California Collegiate Athletic Association Second Team for volleyball.

Completing her fourth season for the Seawolves, Brown was a major factor in the team’s success this year and earned herself a third straight second team all-conference nod. She finished the season with 1,108 assists.

The 5-foot-10 setter from Napa shattered the career assists record last season and continued to add to her record total, ending her four-year stint at Sonoma State with 3,619 assists. Brown holds the single-season record of 1,140.

Brown also topped the career service aces mark with 147, exceeding the previous record of 130.

Sonoma State (23-8 overall) wrapped up its 2009 season on Thursday with a first-round loss in the NCAA Division II tournament to Cal State Los Angeles, 3-2, at Coyote Gym in San Bernardino. It was the final collegiate match for Brown, who handed out a game-high 49 set assists to go along with two kills, four defensive digs and a service ace.

After a one-year stint as the head coach at Cascade College in Portland, Ore., Jon Shaw has joined the men’s basketball coaching staff at Mercer University in Macon, Ga. Shaw, who played basketball at Vintage High, Napa Valley College and The Master’s College, is director of operations.

He was on the staff at Oklahoma as a graduate assistant coach. The former Napa resident also has served as an assistant coach at McClintock High School in Tempe, Ariz., and The Master’s College in California, and was head coach at Grace Academy High School in Marysville, Wash., and Highland High School in Gilbert, Ariz.

In a game carried by Comcast SportsNet California, Jake Croxdale of Napa scored on a two-yard run in the fourth quarter and accounted for 82 yards of total offense in Sacramento State’s 31-28 win Saturday over visiting UC Davis in the 56th annual Pepsi Causeway Classic. The game was played in front of 17,127 fans at Hornet Stadium.

Croxdale’s touchdown run capped a 10-play, 56-yard drive.

The Napa High graduate rushed for 66 yards with a long run of 28 yards and also caught four passes for 16 yards.

The victory gave the Hornets their second straight win in the series.

Sacramento State honored former head coach Bob Mattos by having each player wear “Mattos” on the back of their jerseys.

Swimming for Florida State, Jocelyn Phillips of Napa was second in the women’s 200 free and took third place in the 500 free at the Georgia Tech Invitational last week in Atlanta.

Phillips, a Vintage High graduate who also swam for the Napa Valley Swim Team, was on Florida State’s winning 400 medley relay team and second on the Seminoles’ 800 free relay team.

Napa’s John Boyett had five total tackles (three solo stops, two assists) for the University of Oregon as the Ducks beat Arizona, 44-41, in  double-overtime.

Oregon (9-2 overall, 7-1 Pacific-10 Conference) will play for the Pac-10 title and a Rose Bowl berth against Oregon State on Dec. 3 in Eugene.

Freshman Max Alvarez started at forward for the Sacramento State men’s soccer team and had an assist in the Hornets’ 2-1 OT win over Loyola Marymount in the NCAA Tournament.

Alvarez, a former Napa High star, took a team-high four shots and played 73 minutes. He was the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation’s leading scorer.

University of Utah freshman Chardonnay Biter-Mundt, a Napa resident, swam on the Utes’ ninth-place 200 free relay team during the women’s competition at the Toshiba Classic at Belmont Plaza Olympic pool in Long Beach last week.

Biter-Mundt swam for Vintage High and the Napa Valley Swim Team.