Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: TUESDAY, January 4, 1994 TAG: 9401040140
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: B-3 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: From staff reports
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
Burgess, a 6-foot-6 senior from Harrisonburg, scored 20 points on 8-of-10 shooting, including 2-for-2 on 3-point attempts, as Radford (6-2) registered one of the biggest wins in the 20-year history of the program. He was 2-for-3 on free throws, grabbed four rebounds, dished out three assists and had four steals.
Burgess has 1,124 points and 503 rebounds, making him the fifth Radford player ever to record 1,000 points and 500 rebounds in a career. He has scored 20 points in three consecutive games during Radford's five-game winning streak.
In other sports in the region:
Radford announced that Jon Hunter, a 6-foot-9 sophomore who transferred to Radford from James Madison last winter, will not join the basketball team as originally expected.
Hunter, who was supposed to have become eligible to play last week, failed to meet NCAA academic requirements for transfer eligibility at the end of the fall semester. Hunter will remain enrolled at Radford and will count this as a redshirt season, leaving him with three years of eligibility, Radford coach Ron Bradley said .
Hunter, who averaged 18.4 points and 11.1 rebounds at Graham (N.C.) High School before seeing limited action at JMU, is the second Radford frontcourt player to be lost for the season, leaving the Highlanders with 10 players on their roster. Sophomore forward Eric Bowens was sidelined for the year with knee problems in December.
New VMI football coach Bill Stewart is expected to retain Keydets assistant coach Mike Clark, who served as former VMI coach Jim Shuck's defensive coordinator last season.
It is not certain whether Clark will remain as defensive coordinator or be assigned elsewhere by Stewart, who was expected to arrive in Lexington on Monday night and appear at a news conference at VMI today.
Clark said Monday he could not confirm his standing with Stewart.
"I'm meeting with Bill Stewart [today], and that's probably all I can really say right now," Clark said.
Clark was Virginia Tech's defensive coordinator from 1988-92 and joined Shuck's staff before the '93 season.
Old Dominion University has launched a fast-track planning effort for a $25 million, 10,000-seat arena east of campus for basketball, a concert hall and a convocation center.
The proposed arena is envisioned as the cornerstone of a proposal to expand the 150-acre campus by 40 percent. The expansion could include research facilities, student and fraternity housing and even retail shops.
The university is paying a consultant $300,000 to develop the plan. Richard A. Staneski, ODU vice president for administration and finance, said work started in November and a final draft is expected in May.
"We're on an aggressive pace," Staneski said. "The timing is good for us to move in this direction. Our relationship with the city is excellent. The economic environment is good."
If the project wins city and state approval, construction could start in 1997. Staneski said the project would be completed in phases over 20 years.
Only a small part of the project would involve tax money, Staneski said.
by CNB