St. Helena wrestling standout Piper Pike was due to make the state meet four months ago after coming up two places short at sections the year before.
The Calistoga High softball team had one senior this year in Flor Sanchez. The rest of the Wildcats will be back to try to improve on this year’s two-win season.
Near the end of its nearly winning, 7-8 season, the Calistoga High baseball team suffered 19-0 and 18-1 losses to Sonoma Academy and a 15-3 shellacking at the hands of Technology High.
The crosstown rivalry between Napa High and Vintage has been very competitive over the decades in several sports, but no series is closer than that of Big Game Mini-Golf.
Roger Harris, 63, has stepped down as the only head coach American Canyon High softball has ever had, having made eight playoff trips in 13 varsity seasons.
Larry Allen, an offensive lineman who played for Vintage High as a senior in 1988 and went on to help the Dallas Cowboys win the Super Bowl in 1995, died Sunday at age 52.
The St. Helena High softball team fell 19-0 to longtime powerhouse East Nicolaus in a Northern California Division IV semifinal at home Thursday afternoon.
The Justin-Siena baseball team fell 1-0 to Central Catholic in Modesto in a semifinal on Wednesday after beating King’s Academy 10-2 in Sunnyvale on Tuesday in the NorCal playoffs.
The Justin-Siena baseball team wrapped up a dominant North Coast Section Division 4 playoff run with an 11-1, five-inning rout of Piedmont for the title Saturday in Oakland.
The St. Helena High softball team repeated as North Coast Section champion, winning in Div. 4 over Del Norte, 2-1, after taking the Div. 5 crown last year.
The St. Helena High softball team, seeded No. 1 in the North Coast Section Division 4 playoffs, beat No. 2 Del Norte 2-1 for its second straight title Friday night.
Maika Watanabe, head coach of the Vintage High wrestling program since 2018-19, plans to continue coaching while taking over as the school's athletic director.
The Justin-Siena baseball team is in the North Coast Section Division 4 championship game for the second year in a row after the fourth-seeded Braves upset No. 1 Saint Mary’s 6-1 on Wednesday in Albany.
St. Helena scored three unanswered runs during their North Coast Section Div. 4 softball playoff semifinal against Fortuna in St. Helena on Tuesday to secure a 3-1 victory that sends them to Friday's championship game.
Top-seeded St. Helena's Tahlia Smith pitched a 3-hitter with 13 strikeouts in a 3-1 win over No. 4 Fortuna in a North Coast Section Division 4 semifinal Tuesday.
Corey Battle has been hired to succeed George Nessman has head coach of Justin-Siena boys basketball after six years as an assistant coach at Vanden.
Several Napa Valley track and field athletes made the top 10 in the North Coast Section Meet of Champions at Dublin High, but came up short of the state meet.
Seeded fourth in the North Coast Section Division 4 baseball playoffs, Justin-Siena routed No. 5 Kelseyville 12-0 in a quarterfinal on Saturday.
Justin-Siena continued it's playoff dominance with a 12-0 mercy rule shortened game against Kelceyville in a North Coast Section Division 4 baseball playoff game on Saturday. The Braves have posted thirty-five runs in their last two games while not allowing a run.Â
Tahlia Smith won a pitcher's duel as her top-seeded St. Helena softball team edged No. 8 Saint Mary's 2-1 in a North Coast Section Division 4 playoff quarterfinal on Friday.
Seventh-seeded Liberty of Brentwood took the lead for good in the second inning in stunning No. 2 Vintage 8-3 in a North Coast Section Division 1 playoff quarterfinal on Friday.
Timely hitting and solid pitching propelled the Vintage baseball team to a 5-3 win over visiting De Anza in their North Coast Section Division 2 baseball playoff opener on Wednesday afternoon. Â
The fifth-seeded Vintage High baseball team rode a three-run rally in the fourth past No. 13 seed De Anza, 5-3, for its first playoff win since 2015 on Wednesday.
The fourth-seeded Justin-Siena baseball team opened the North Coast Section Division 4 playoffs with a 23-0 rout of No. 13 Ygnacio Valley on Wednesday.
The St. Helena High baseball team, seeded sixth in the North Coast Section Division 4 playoffs, shut out No. 11 Redwood Christian of San Lorenzo 7-0 in the first round Wednesday.
Cienna Alvarez's grand slam highlighted an 11-run second inning as the Vintage High softball team routed Mt. Eden 19-1 in a NCS Div. 1 playoff opener Tuesday.
The American Canyon girls and boys swim teams won Vine Valley Athletic League titles for the third year in a row, and Justin-Siena's Lila Heffernan qualified for the state meet.
Vintage ran away with their North Coast Section Division 1 playoff softball opening game on Tuesday with a convincing 19-1 win over visiting Mt. Eden.
The Napa Valley will be represented by 32 track and field athletes at the North Coast Section Meet of Champions on Friday and Saturday at Dublin High after qualifying at area meets this past Saturday.
Vintage became the first baseball team from the Vine Valley Athletic League to sweep both the regular-season and tournament titles in five years Friday night.