By MARTY JAMES martyjames.sports@gmail.com

First-place Woodland Community College and second-place Napa Valley College tied in a key Bay Valley Conference men's soccer match on Friday, Oct. 27 in Woodland, 1-1.

Woodland (9-5-2 overall, 7-0-1 Bay Valley) remains in first place.

Napa Valley (8-7-1 overall, 6-2-1 Bay Valley) is in second place, with three matches to go in the 2023 regular season. The Storm is 7-2-1 in its last 10 games.

Justin Sotelo scored Napa Valley's lone goal of the match. The assist went to Ivan Chavez.

Woodland Community College got its goal from Cristian Garcia. The assist was credited to Ricardo Diaz.

Napa Valley is at home on Friday, Nov. 3 for a Bay Valley match against Contra Costa College-San Pablo at 4 p.m.

* Marty James is a freelance writer who makes his home in Napa. He retired on June 4, 2019 after spending 40 years as a sports writer, sports editor and executive sports editor for the Napa Valley Register, a daily newspaper in Napa County. He is a 1979 graduate of Sacramento State and a member of the California Golf Writers & Broadcasters Association. He was inducted into the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section Hall of Fame in 2016, the Vintage High School Athletic Hall of Fame in 2019, and the Napa High School Athletic Hall of Fame in 2022.