Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, January 8, 1994 TAG: 9401080185
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: C3 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: From staff reports
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
There will be two pools of three teams each for round-robin competition. The first-place finishers will be matched against each other in the team finals, along with the teams that finish second and third.
Northside, Martinsville and Liberty will be in one pool. William Byrd, Brookville and Patrick County will be in the other pool.
The meet also serves as a preview of the Big Orange tournament, which begins Friday at William Byrd. Brookville, Byrd, Northside and Martinsville are four of the stronger Group AA teams in that 16-team meet.
Tickets for the Brookville meet are $3 for all day, and the final matches are scheduled to begin in mid-afternoon.
In other sports in the region:
Virginia linebacker Tom Burns has added to his bankroll for graduate school with a $5,000 NCAA postgraduate scholarship. He was one of 29 players to receive such a grant.
Burns, a senior, carries a 3.92 grade-point average in nuclear engineering. The third-team All-ACC player already had a $25,000 graduate fellowship from the National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame as the nation's outstanding scholar-athlete.
Burns also is a two-time first-team GTE University Division Academic All-American and received the 1993 Jim Tatum Award as the top senior student-athlete among ACC football players.
Three Virginia players have been named Men's Collegiate MVP's by Soccer America magazine.
Junior midfielder Claudio Reyna was honored for the third consecutive year, senior defender Brian Bates won the award for the second time in as many years and junior forward Nate Friends was honored for the first time.
by CNB