NVC has four players in double-figure scoring, but falls to Skyline College
First photo: The Napa Valley College men's basketball team is shown during a game against Las Positas College-Livermore earlier in the season.
Photos by Marty James
By MARTY JAMES
Jayden Russotti scored 19 points to lead four players in double figures for the Napa Valley College men's basketball team, but the Storm lost its nonconference game to host Skyline College, 71-68, on Nov. 26 in San Bruno.
Russotti had two 3-pointers and was 5-of-5 from the free-throw line.
Skyline had a four-point lead, 37-33, at halftime.
Andrew Degirolamo scored 15 points.
E'Jay Rogers and Jayden Robinson scored 10 points.
AJ Loustau scored seven points.
Eight players scored for the Storm (3-5 overall).
Napa Valley hit six 3-pointers and was 12-of-18 from the free-throw line.
Zidane Auzarang scored 28 points to lead Skyline. Auzarang had three 3-pointers, was 11-of-13 at the free-throw line, and also had eight rebounds and four assists.
Osha Moloney had 11 points.
Skyline shot 37.1 percent (23-of-62 from the field), 31.0 percent from 3-point distance (9-of-29), and 84.2 percent (16-of-19) at the free-throw line.
Skyline also had 38 rebounds, 13 assists, four steals and five blocked shots.
Seven players scored for Skyline.
Napa Valley's next game is on Dec. 2 when it travels to San Joaquin Delta College-Stockton at 5 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.