2024-2025 Napa Valley College Men's Basketball News

  • Lain scores in double figures for NVC men’s basketball in loss to Contra Costa
    February 10, 2025
    By MARTY JAMES martyjames.sports@gmail.com Caedom Lain was the only player to score in double figures for the Napa Valley College men’s basketball team as the Storm lost its Bay Valley Conference game to Contra Costa College, 75-49, on Friday, Feb. 7 in San Pablo. Lain scored 11 points to lead Napa Valley (3-22 overall, 2-11 Bay Valley), which has lost three straight. Naajy Bynum-Bey scored nine points, Hassan Flemming and CJ Mitchell each had eight points, and Jayden Robinson had six points for Napa Valley. Chris Farrington had four points and Jerard Jackson had three points. Napa Valley had two 3-pointers and was 7-of-13 from the free-throw line.
  • Bynum-Bey scores 20 points for NVC men’s basketball in loss to Solano
    January 16, 2025
    By MARTY JAMES martyjames.sports@gmail.com Naajy Bynum-Bey scored 20 points and Chris Farrington had 15 points, but the Napa Valley College men's basketball team lost its Bay Valley Conference game on the road, falling to Solano Community College on Wednesday night, 66-65, in Fairfield. Bynum-Bey scored 11 points in the first half, hitting three 3-pointers, as the Storm went in front 35-28 at halftime. Farrington scored 14 points in the second half of the game.
  • Farrington the only player for NVC men’s basketball to score in double figures in loss
    December 12, 2024
    By MARTY JAMES martyjames.sports@gmail.com Chris Farrington was the only player for the Napa Valley College men’s basketball team to score in double figures in Wednesday night’s nonconference game. Farrington led the Storm, scoring 16 points, but Napa Valley lost on the road, 85-53 to West Valley College-Saratoga. Napa Valley (1-11 overall) has lost eight in a row. The Storm was behind at halftime, 47-28. Nine players scored in the game for Napa Valley, which had three 3-pointers and was 8-of-13 from the free-throw line.
  • Broome leads NVC men’s basketball team with 19 points in narrow loss to Ohlone
    November 25, 2024
    By MARTY JAMES martyjames.sports@gmail.com Nate Broome led 10 players in scoring for the Napa Valley College men’s basketball team in the Storm’s 65-63 nonconference loss at home to Ohlone College-Fremont on Friday, Nov. 22. Broome scored a team-high 19 points, also going 9-of-15 from the free-throw line. The loss was the fourth in a row for Napa Valley (1-7 overall), which is also still looking for its first win at home. After scoring 18 points in the first half, Napa Valley bounced back, scoring 45 points in the second half. Chris Farrington scored nine points, E’Jay Rogers had eight points, Hassan Flemming had seven points, Jerard Jack
  • Farrington soars for 28 points for NVC men’s basketball in loss to Santa Rosa Junior College
    November 14, 2024
    By MARTY JAMES martyjames.sports@gmail.com Chris Farrington, a sophomore guard, is giving the Napa Valley College men’s basketball team everything he’s got. He’s doing it in so many ways – as a shooter, playmaker, ball handler, passer and leader. “He's a warrior,” Storm head coach Steve Ball said. “He wants to win so bad that he's willing to put his body at risk. And he's been getting to the rim relentlessly throughout the entire season. He's going to continue to do that.” Farrington is playing with a protective nose brace. He missed the final game of the Live Like Geno Foundation Tip Off, a season-opening tournament, due to suffering a broken nose in a game against Sacramento City College, in which he scored 33 points. “He wanted to play with the broken nose the next day,” said Ball. “He was able to play with it now that he has the brace on it. But he's just fearless with that.”
  • Napa Valley College men’s basketball season preview: an improved look to Storm
    October 29, 2024
    By MARTY JAMES martyjames.sports@gmail.com There is a connection that coach Steve Ball has with the Live Like Geno Foundation, the sponsor of the Napa Valley College men’s basketball team’s season-opening tournament. Ball grew up in Redway (Humboldt County), the same town as Gene “Geno” Cotter. He learned so much about basketball from Cotter, who went on to play at College of the Redwoods-Eureka and Holy Names University-Oakland after starring at South Fork High School-Miranda. “Gene Cotter was the one that raised me playing basketball basically,” said Ball, who is in his 19th year of leading the NVC program. “We were in a small town, and he was a basketball junkie. He was always the older kid who wouldn't let you go home, because if you went home, he had to go home and couldn't play basketball anymore. So, he wanted to keep us out there as long as he could.”
  • Napa Valley College men’s basketball media day ‘a great team-bonding experience’
    October 28, 2024
    By MARTY JAMES martyjames.sports@gmail.com The week of Oct. 14-18 was a big one for Napa Valley College men’s basketball. After a short practice on Oct. 15, the team had its media day, with photos being taken of the players during an event at Hill Family Estate, a winery in Napa. “It was a great team-bonding experience, a great vibe the entire day,” said E’Jay Rogers, a freshman guard.
  • Move-in day filled with excitement as NVC student athletes check in to River Trail Village
    August 20, 2024
    By MARTY JAMES martyjames.sports@gmail.com With his golf bag in hand and his family by his side, Dominic Taverrite called his arrival at Napa Valley College on Friday “just a really surreal experience.” It was move-in day for Taverrite and many of the school’s student-athletes, who arrived throughout the day and checked into River Trail Village, a brand-new, beautiful on-campus housing complex that opened in August. Taverrite said he has spent his whole life dreaming of playing college golf. At Napa Valley, he will get that opportunity, playing in a program led by head coach Bob Freschi.
  • Alfredo Hernandez settling into job as NVC’s Athletic Academic Counselor
    July 29, 2024
    Photos by Marty James By MARTY JAMES martyjames.sports@gmail.com Alfredo Hernandez and Napa Valley College have a connection that spans years and years. Hernandez was in elementary school when his older sister, Dalila Hernandez, would drop him off, either at the Math Department or the McCarthy Library, while she was taking a class at NVC. It’s where Alfredo spent part of day after school – getting his homework done, reading, and staying on top of his studies as a student at Vichy Elementary School. It’s where he got his AA degree in Natural Science in 2012.
  • Storm Cup benefit golf tournament August 19 at Napa Valley Country Club
    July 22, 2024
    By MARTY JAMES martyjames.sports@gmail.com The Storm Cup, a golf tournament that benefits student athletes at Napa Valley College, is Monday, August 19, at Napa Valley Country Club. The second annual Storm Cup is sponsored by the Napa Valley College Foundation. The driving range opens at 10:45 a.m. The tournament has a 12 p.m. shotgun start. Lunch is included.