Vacaville (4-1) at Napa (5-0)

Friday, 7:30 p.m., Memorial Stadium

Radio, KVON 1440 AM, 7 p.m.

Last week: Vacaville beat Deer Valley-Antioch, 47-26, as Melvin Mason (125 yards rushing, touchdown), Quincy Forte (156 yards rushing, three touchdowns) and Curtis Goins (95 yards rushing) keyed the Bulldogs’ wing-T ground game. Tyler Irwin passed for 102 yards and two TDs as Vacaville rallied from a 20-13 deficit late in the first half.

Napa had a bye week and has had two weeks to prepare for Vacaville.

Last year: Napa lost to Vacaville, 60-7. Cody Jensen’s 2-yard TD run capped a 12-play drive and was Napa’s only score.

Back at home: The new Memorial Stadium, a 6,400-seat facility with a grand entrance, new field, team rooms, concession areas, press boxes and a new scoreboard, opens on Friday for the Monticello Empire League opener between ranked teams.

Since there is a freshman game Friday, stadium gates open at 2 p.m.

“We think it’s going to be a great atmosphere for us to play football in,” said coach Troy Mott, whose team played four of its nonleague games at Justin-Siena’s Dodd Stadium.

Rankings: Vacaville is No. 4 and Napa is No. 13 in the MaxPreps.com Sac-Joaquin Section rankings. Vacaville is No. 15 and Napa is No. 17 in the CalHiSports.com Northern California CIF Open Division Top 20. Vacaville is also No. 9 in the NorCal Preps Top-10 Coaches Poll.

Hall of Fame weekend: The 14th annual class of inductees into the Napa High School Athletic Hall of Fame — Darci Lewis, Bob Herlocker, Mike Brown and Glenn Hughes — will be introduced Friday night before the game. They will be enshrined into the HOF Saturday night.

League opener: Friday marks the start of the Monticello Empire League season.

“There’s some really good teams in our league, Vacaville being one of them that you have to prepare for,” said Mott. “Once league starts, it’s for real. You can’t slip up. You can’t have a week off of practice. You’ve got to keep doing the things that you’re doing that keep you successful.”

Scouting the Bulldogs: Mott believes his team is an underdog against Vacaville, which also has wins over Rodriguez-Cordelia, Laguna Creek-Elk Grove and Granite Bay, with its only loss to Valley Christian-San Jose.

“We’re going to hope that our kids will prepare hard, that they’ll show up Friday night and play a good football game,” Mott said.

Mott saw Vacaville against Deer Valley last week and he is impressed with the Bulldogs’ offense, defense and special teams. “All three phases are very, very strong. They have very good athletes over there, tremendous football players and a great coaching staff that does a wonderful job with them. They have great support by their community over there for that football program. They’ve got it going — they’re a model for what a high school football program should be. All their running backs are equally as good and they just keep coming at you with them. It’s tough to deal with. Hopefully we’re up to the task.”  — Marty James