Napa Valley College baseball places 6 on All-Bay Valley Conference team
Photos: Blake Goen is shown in a game for Napa Valley College.
Photos by Marty James
By MARTY JAMES
Six players from Napa Valley College, led by first-team selection Blake Goen, have been named to the All-Bay Valley Conference baseball team, Storm head coach Derek Mayer announced this week.
Goen is a first-team pick as a pitcher.
Myles Gray was named second-team at first base.
Shosei Tatsuno was named second-team as an infielder.
Selected as honorable mention for Napa Valley (10-29 overall, 9-12 Bay Valley Conference) was Marcellus Cueva, an infielder; Jaden Hunter, an infielder; and Owen Nelson, a catcher.
Goen, a freshman, had a very good season for Napa Valley as a starting right-handed pitcher.
He was 3-6 with a 4.97 earned run average in 13 appearances (11 starts). He threw 76 innings, striking out 58 and walking 22 batters.
Goen was fantastic over his last three starts, allowing just one run in 24 innings.
He pitched a nine-inning complete-game, limiting Solano Community College-Fairfield to five hits, one run (earned), walking two and striking out eight, as Napa Valley won its regular-season finale, 4-1, on April 25 at Storm Field. Goen, the winning pitcher, faced 37 batters, throwing 140 pitches, getting 11 groundouts and nine fly-outs.
Gray, a freshman, had a .367 batting average in 30 games. He had three home runs, 10 doubles and 21 RBIs.
Tatsuno, a freshman, played in 38 games and batted .312 with five doubles, four triples, a home run, 18 RBIs and nine stolen bases.
Cueva, a sophomore, played in 34 games and batted .306 with four doubles, seven RBIs and eight stolen bases.
Nelson, a sophomore, had a .283 batting average in 38 games. He had nine doubles, three home runs, 20 RBIs and three stolen bases.
Hunter, a sophomore, played in 36 games and batted .277 with 16 RBIs and three stolen bases.
Napa Valley finishes the season in a tie for fifth place in the Bay Valley Conference standings.
* 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.