NVC women's basketball concludes play in Bay Valley Conference
The Napa Valley College women's basketball team is shown during an earlier-season game against Lassen College-Susanville.
Photos by Marty James
By MARTY JAMES
The Napa Valley College women's basketball team concluded play in the Bay Valley Conference, losing to host Laney College, 111-64, in Oakland on Feb. 17.
Napa Valley (19-8 overall, 8-6 Bay Valley) had its four-game winning streak snapped.
Jazmine Fontilla, Amya Sims and Marticia Pollard all scored in double figures for the Storm.
Fontilla scored 16 points, with two 3-pointers. She was 6-of-10 at the free-throw line and had three rebounds, two assists and three steals.
Sims scored 11 points on 4-of-8 shooting from the field. She had four rebounds.
Pollard scored 10 points on 2-of-3 shooting from the field and 6-of-8 from the free-throw line. She had three rebounds.
Layla Butler had nine points, going 5-of-6 at the free-throw line. She had four rebounds six assists and five steals.
Jazelle Bolton scored eight points and had nine rebounds.
Helena White scored six points on 2-of-3 shooting from the field.
Also, playing for the Storm was Janelle Harding (two rebounds), Briana Alday (two steals), and Amiyah Murry (four points, three rebounds).
Napa Valley was behind in the first quarter, 34-16, and trailed 60-32 at halftime.
The Storm shot 32.2 percent from the field (19-of-59), 33.3 percent from the 3-point line (5-of-15), and 61.8 percent from the free-throw line (21-of-34). They had 34 rebounds, 12 assists and 12 steals.
Napa Valley is in fourth place in the Bay Valley.
Laney (23-3 overall, 14-0 Bay Valley), the conference's first-place team, had six players score in double figures.
Laney shot 50.0 percent from the field (46-of-92), 30.8 percent from the 3-point line (12-of-39), and 63.6 percent from the free-throw line (7-of-11). Laney had 58 rebounds, 30 assists, 13 steals and blocked five shots.
* 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.