Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: MONDAY, April 4, 1994 TAG: 9404040092
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: B-5 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: From staff reports
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
After the Rams (19-9 overall, 4-2 in the Metro) built a four-run lead, the Hokies (11-15, 3-5) rallied for three runs in the seventh.
With a runner on first via a walk, David Fitt singled to put runners at first and third. After a wild pitch by VCU starter Michael Henke (3-2), Reese Murdaugh came out of the bullpen and gave up back-to-back RBI doubles by Bryan King and Kevin Barker.
Tommy Nuckols worked out of that jam and stranded another runner at second in the ninth to earn his third save of the season.
In other sports in the region:
In Rock Hill, S.C., Radford pounded Winthrop's pitchers for 18 hits en route to a 9-5 victory in the third game of a Big South Conference weekend series.
Highlanders starter Mike Parker (2-2) went the distance to pick up the victory, the second of the series for Radford (13-12, 9-3). Parker gave up five runs, two earned, on four hits. He walked eight and struck out two.
Five Highlanders had at least two hits.
Winthrop is 16-12, 5-6.
In Winchester, former Blacksburg High School standout Matt Smith went 2-for-2 with three RBI and a two-run homer as Ferrum routed Shenandoah 14-4 in a Dixie Conference baseball game.
Keith Mayhew (5-0) pitched all nine innings for the Panthers. Ferrum (17-2, 4-2) is ranked 14th nationally in Division III.
In Radford, Bo Howell of Christiansburg and Ricky Jefferson of Max Meadows won late races Saturday night in the FM 94 Radio 200 at New River Valley Speedway.
Howell passed Charlie Miles in the back stretch on lap 25 and held on to win the 35-lap Limited Sportsman race. Kenny Montgomery, the 1993 division champion, finished third, and Darrell Holman was fourth.
Jefferson slipped past Charlie Smith on lap 10 and went on to win the 25-lap Modified Mini Stock race. Smith was second and Jimmy Hinkley third.
by CNB