By MARTY JAMES martyjames.sports@gmail.com

The Napa Valley College women's basketball team will take an eight-game winning streak into its Bay Valley Conference opener at the College of Marin-Kentfield on Thursday, Dec. 18 at 5 p.m. The Storm (10-2 overall) also goes into its league season at No. 14 in the California Community College Women's Basketball Coaches Association North Region Poll, which was released on Dec. 16 in a report on the California Community College Athletic Association website, www.cccaasports.org.

The CCCWBCA released its state poll, along with North Region and South Region polls.

Napa Valley won its Storm Surge, a preseason invitational tournament, beating three straight nonconference opponents last week – Porterville College (61-36), College of the Canyons-Santa Clarita (72-53), and Rio Hondo College-Whittier (71-64).

The Storm's Arianna Aguilar was named as the tournament's Most Valuable Player.

The Storm's Jazmine Fontilla was named to the All-Tournament team.

The fifth annual Storm Surge was played over three days.

Napa Valley concluded the nonconference portion of its 2025-26 schedule, beating Foothill College-Los Altos Hills on Monday, 79-47.

The CCCWBCA North Region Poll is led by No. 1 Folsom Lake College (11-0).

Laney College-Oakland (9-3) is No. 2, San Joaquin Delta College-Stockton (7-2) is No. 3, Butte College-Oroville (10-4) is No. 4, and Santa Rosa Junior College (7-2) is No. 5.

The North Region Poll also has:

No. 6 City College of San Francisco (8-3), No. 7 Taft College (13-1), No. 8 Sierra College-Rocklin (7-2), No. 9 College of the Sequoias-Visalia (6-7), No. 10 Fresno City College (8-4), No. 11 West Hills College Lemoore (8-5), No. 12 Skyline College-San Bruno (8-3), No. 13 Modesto Junior College (8-3), and No. 15 San Jose City College (8-4).

The CCCWBCA state poll is led by No. 1 Mt. San Antonio College-Walnut (12-1).

Mt. San Antonio received 13 out of a possible 15 first-place votes in the California Community College Women's Basketball Coaches Association State Top 25, the report, at www.cccaasports.org, said.

Napa Valley was among other teams receiving votes in the state poll.

Through 11 games, the Storm is averaging 67.2 points per game on 40.0 percent shooting from the field, 26.0 percent shooting from the 3-point line, and 58.8 percent shooting from the free-throw line.

The Storm is also averaging 40.3 rebounds and 16.7 assists per game.

Aguilar is averaging 12.7 points and 4.5 rebounds per game.

Fontilla is averaging 12.6 points, 3.4 rebounds and 3.5 assists per game.

The Storm's Ashley Torres is averaging 5.3 points, 3.2 rebounds and 2.7 assists per game.

Layla Butler is averaging 7.5 points, 3.9 rebounds and 3.5 assists per game.

Marticia Pollard is averaging 6.1 points and 4.8 rebounds per game.

Amiyah Murry is averaging 5.4 points and 6.0 rebounds per game.

Jazelle Bolton is averaging 4.9 points and 4.6 rebounds per game.

* 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

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