Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, March 26, 1994 TAG: 9403260045
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: B4 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Staff report
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
\ Motorists traveling from Lexington to Salem early today take heed.
About 30 members of Roanoke College's Kappa Alpha Order are raising money for charity by running a lacrosse ball down Route 11 to Alumni Field, where the eighth-ranked Maroons meet No. 13 Washington and Lee in a men's lacrosse match at 1 p.m.
Shep Critzer, who is organizing the event, said the participants plan to leave Lexington - site of the order's founding and national headquarters - at about 1:30 a.m. and use a relay method to carry a lacrosse stick and ball to Salem "like the Olympic torch."
The order hopes to raise $3,500 to be donated to the Baptist Children's Home in Salem and to help offset medical costs for a KA brother in North Carolina hit by a drunk driver.
Anyone interested in donating can contact: KA Order, Box 409, Roanoke College, Salem, VA, 24153.
Participants in the relay plan to have the ball at Alumni Field in time for it to be used in the opening faceoff.
"One of the major reasons we're doing this is to bring more people out to the game," Critzer said. "We want to help the [Roanoke lacrosse] team out."
The Maroons will be out for revenge against the Generals (3-3), who snatched the Old Dominion Athletic Conference championship from Roanoke in last season's finale.
W&L beat the Maroons 9-8 in Salem and earned a spot in the NCAA Division III national tournament.
"We're just excited because this is a big conference game and a big rivalry," said Bill Pilat, Roanoke's coach. "We need to play well and stick to our game plan. . . . We can't let them control the ball all afternoon like they like to do."
The Maroons are 4-2, with their losses coming to Nazareth and Salisbury State, the nation's two top ranked teams in Division III. Washington and Lee is coming off a pair of victories last week over ranked teams.
by CNB