Napa Valley Register from Napa, California • B1

Napa Valley RegisteR Wednesday, January 30, 2019 B1 1 SPORTS Wednesday, January 30, 2019 napavalleyregister.com seCTIOn REGISTER STAFF Napa Firefighters Association remained unbeaten in the Napa Optimist Youth 11th and 12th Grade Boys Divi- sion with a 51-34 win over Napa Valley Jewelers. Leading the winners were Matthew Com- mander with 13 points, five re- bounds and three steals, George Bolen 12 points, five steals and five boards, Grant Koehler six points, seven rebounds and three steals, Matthew Heun six points and two steals, and Blake Hoban five points. Rudy Reyes paced Jewelers with eight points and 14 re- bounds. Carlos Chavez also had eight points, Pedro Infante six points and five boards, Dillon Mouton five points, Noah Parker five rebounds, Cody Jones three points, and Christian Hernandez two steals. Finn Glascott had 10 points and six rebounds to lead Rotary to a 37-30 decision over Nielson Construction.

Abraham Cortes added seven points, five boards and three steals for Rotary, Eli Dion five points and two steals, John Moss four points and eight rebounds, Carson Becker four points, Ryan Decius three points, and Calvin Bird four points, seven boards and four steals. Jakob Bittner made nine points The National Federation of State High School Associ-ations Coaches Associa- tion named Alynn Wright, the head coach at St. Francis-Sac- ramento who is originally from Napa, as the 2017-18 California Coach of the Year for girls vol- leyball. Wright directed St. Fran- cis (34-9 overall) to the Delta League title and a CIF Sac-Joa- quin Section runner-up finish during the 2017 season.

The Troubadours played in the open bracket of the Northern California Re- gionals for the first time and lost to Archbishop Mitty-San Jose. Wright was named as the Delta League Coach of the Year. It was her 21st league title with St. Francis. in and year out, Alynn has proved nothing short of a blessing to our program and our St.

Francis Athletics Director Mark McGreevy said in a report on the web- site, gotroubies.com. join the NFHS in recognizing what known for a long time now that the Troubadours have the best high school vol- leyball coach in The NFHS is based in India- napolis. Wright, who is in her 30th year of leading the program, was nominated by the school to represent the Sac-Joaquin Sec- tion and chosen by the Califor- nia Interscholastic Association, according to a report from St. Francis. the past seven years, treasured the opportunity to witness a master coach at work in Alynn McGreevy said.

season presents Justin grad named top coach REGISTER STAFF The Napa High and Vintage girls soccer teams battled to a 1-1 Big Game tie in Vine Valley Athletic League action Monday night at Memorial Stadium. Both teams scored in the first half, Neilani Newberry for Vin- tage and then Mila Valentine for Napa High. From there, college-bound goalkeepers Grace Vlandis of Napa High and Sam Linteo of Vintage pitched second-half shutouts. Vintage was coming off Fri- respectable 2-1 loss to Petaluma High that saw Irais Hernandez score only the sev- enth goal allowed all season by the Trojans, who are undefeated overall. previous goal was scored by Loulou Herve in a 5-1 home loss to Sonoma Valley on Jan.

18, although the Grizzlies also found net in a 6-1 loss on Jan. 14. On Wednesday night, Napa (0-15-2, 0-8-1 VVAL) will host fourth-place American Can- yon (3-10-2, 3-4-2 VVAL) and fifth-place Vintage (6-6-5, 2-5-3 VVAL) will visit third-place Sonoma Valley. Both games are set for 6 p.m. JV Girls soccer Vintage 1, Napa 0 Pia goal was all the Crushers needed to win Mon- day game, thanks to a shutout by goalkeeper Kayleigh Shepherd.

JV Boys Basketball Vintage 40, Napa 38 The Crushers won Monday Big Game, improving to 13-6 overall and 7-3 in VVAL with their fifth straight victory. Vintage was led by Josh 10 points, while Owen Schnaible and Alex Dehzad each chipped in seven points. was a hard-fought ball- game all the way to the final said Crushers coach Girls soccer Big Game II ends in 1-1 tie 11th 12th Grade boys stay unbeaten andy WILCOX, REGISTER Maile sittler, right, brings the ball up the middle in front of napa Mila Valentine during 2-0 win on Jan. 9 at Memorial stadium. Valentine scored in Monday Big Game rematch.

CYRIL PENN Whenever Napa and Vintage High square off in any compet- itive situation, you can bet the house on local fans showing up in droves and rocking the building with boisterous energy. Monday night was no different as fans packed the Vintage gym for the final boys basketball Big Game of the 2018-19 season. The game doubled as the Senior Night contest, with giant fathead cutouts of all five of their seniors drifting around the stu- dent section. Despite high energy and palpable determination, however, Napa swept the season series with a 61-54 comeback win. It extended the winning streak to 11 games and secured a share of the inaugural Vine Valley Athletic League title.

really even talk about (the streak) Napa head coach Zack Cook said. talking about winning league and trying to make play- offs. The winning streak really come Discussed or not, the streak was in jeopardy early on as Vintage (10-12, 5-5 VVAL) raced out to a 12-2 lead just 2:30 into the game on its way to a 20-10 advan- tage at the end of the first quarter. Napa (18-5, 9-0 VVAL) did anything but roll over, though, as it clamped down defensively and held the Crushers to just 34 points the rest of the evening. In the fourth quarter, Napa took the lead for good at 52- 50 with 4:40 left to play when Brock Bowers hit a spinning fi- nesse layup in the lane.

They then traded layups. Hunter Gutierrez hit one off-glass, and Napa Zach Swim re- sponded with a driving layup. Gutierrez hit another layup to make it 56-54. But the Crushers get any shots to fall over the last two minutes. Bowers added another clutch putback at 1:40 that put the lead at 58-54, and the Griz- zlies hit free throws to pull away.

Bowers dropped 20 points and added 10 rebounds and a pair of assists to lead the charge for Napa High, while sixth-man Brayden Greenlee chipped in 19 points, three boards and one assist. Swim finished with 10 points, nine rebounds and two assists. Also scoring for Napa were Ste- phen Blume (seven points), Ty- ler Oda (three points, three as- sists) and Logan Van Zandt (two points). Vince chipped in five rebounds. While Bowers is a double-dou- ble threat nightly, per- formance was a breath of fresh air for an underclassman finding his way on the floor.

been struggling lately, but I just felt like tonight was my Greenlee said. just played loose, my teammates were there for me, and I just had a good Meanwhile, Vintage came out with an all-senior starting lineup and received major contribu- tions from captain Jared Rendon (13 points, four assists, three re- bounds), Grant Polk (nine points, four rebounds) and Blake Murray (nine points, three rebounds, one assist). Gutierrez had eight points, two rebounds and two steals. Also scoring for the hosts were Max Phipps (six points, three rebounds, two assists), Loren Castro (four points), Lo- gan Nothmann (three points, three rebounds, two assists) and Ethan Hemmerlin (two points), while Luke Williams and Josh McCormick combined for three rebounds. Grizzlies keep rolling with Big Game sweep dOn LeX PHOTOs, LUCKYDUCKIMAGES.COM Logan nothmann sprints upcourt between napa High guards Tyler Oda, left, and Logan Van Zandt on Monday night.

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