When the game is a low-scoring slugfest, every stop is crucial.
The Justin-Siena Braves wrestled their first events of 2022 following several weeks of setbacks due to changes in the COVID-19 climate.
The five finalists for 2020-21 Napa County Female Athlete of the Year.
Jacob Guiducci, who excelled in cross country, wrestling, and track and field last spring, is the 2020-21 Napa County Male Athlete of the Year.
Napa High's Sofia Tinnon is the 2020-21 Napa County Female Athlete of the Year after finishing as the girls basketball team's leading scorer and second-leading rebounder while turning in track and field personal bests in the shot put and discus.
The five finalists for 2020-21 Napa County Female Athlete of the Year.
The Napa High girls soccer team has a two-game Big Game win streak for the first time since 2018 after matching last May’s score with a 2-1 victory over Vintage on Friday night at Memorial Stadium.
Tessa Salvestrin scored all 5 goals for the Braves in Friday night's 5-1 Vine Valley Athletic League victory over Sonoma Valley at Dodd Stadium.
Charlie Galvan scored for the third game in four Vine Valley Athletic League outings with six minutes left as the Vintage High boys soccer team took a two-goal lead and held off Napa, 2-1, in the first of two Big Games this season Thursday night at Memorial Stadium.
A roundup of recent high school basketball results involved teams from the Napa Valley.
The Justin-Siena girls soccer team ended a 12-day break from competition by opening Vine Valley Athletic League play with a 4-0 win at American Canyon on Tuesday night.
Caden Parlett went through a major position change on the football field that made him Justin-Siena’s go-to player — all while dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, trying to not let his best friends down, keeping his grades up, and being involved in student leadership.
The Vintage High girls basketball team defeated Petaluma on the road Monday night, 44-33, improving to 8-7 overall and 1-1 in the Vine Valley Athletic League.
Thomas Hatton’s last two Napa High football teams were a combined 3-12, but the senior did what he could throughout to be a winner both on and off the field.
Napa Valley football players led the Green and White teams as they tied 26-26 in the eighth annual Tri-County All-Star Game on Saturday; most of the games postponed by last week's North Bay COVID-19 outbreak have been rescheduled.
Barry Forsythe, who helped the 1986 Vintage High football program win its second Sac-Joaquin Section title in seven years and also competed in wrestling and track and field, is one of 12 who will be inducted into the school's athletic hall of fame in the spring.
Napa, American Canyon and Justin-Siena were all supposed to play each other in girls and boys basketball and soccer and this week and determine the early front-runners in the Vine Valley Athletic League, but a spike in COVID-19 infections throughout the North Bay put the seasons on hold.
The COVID-19 surge in the North Bay was already leading to basketball postponements before all players had come back from the holiday break.
The American Canyon High girls basketball team defeated host Vintage 53-38 in each team's Vine Valley Athletic League opener on Monday night.
The Vintage High boys soccer team takes a 5-2-2 preseason record into its Vine Valley Athletic League opener at 6 p.m. Tuesday against Justin-Siena at Memorial Stadium.
Several high school wrestlers from the Napa Valley competed in the Lou Bronzan Invitational Dec. 27-28 at Liberty High in Brentwood. Napa High's Nathan Schwarze placed first, teammate Thomas Hatton second, Vintage's Niki Smith fourth, and Justin-Siena's Brandon Guiducci fourth.
The Napa High girls soccer team has a new head coach, Jarred Pearce, and 11 varsity returners as it hopes to make the playoffs for the first time since spring 2013.
The American Canyon High boys basketball team erased a 9-0 deficit to edge host Vintage 52-51 in each team's Vine Valley Athletic League opener Thursday night.
Norms are defined by things that are typical and standard.
The Justin-Siena girls soccer team has had more players involved offensively than in recent years, so opponents now have to stop more than Saint Mary's College-bound senior Tessa Salvestrin.