Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: MONDAY, April 11, 1994 TAG: 9404110089
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: B-3 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: From staff reports
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
Bryan King and David Fitt hit solo home runs for the Hokies (15-17), and Kevin Kurilla smashed a three-run homer. Bo Durkac and Kurilla each had four RBI for Tech.
Starting pitcher Brian Fitzgerald (4-2) hurled six shutout innings to get the victory. Drayton Gilyard (0-2) took the loss for the Bison (3-32).
In other college baseball:
VMI snapped Western Carolina's 15-game Southern Conference winning streak with a 3-1 victory on Sunday in Cullowhee, N.C.
Keydets pitcher John Payne (3-3) went the nine-inning distance, striking out one and walking none. Payne scattered nine hits and allowed only a seventh-inning run by the regular-season champion Catamounts (33-8 overall, 18-2 Southern Conference).
VMI (14-19, 8-9) scored two runs in the top of the fourth on an RBI single by Marlin Ikenberry and an RBI walk by his twin brother, Merlin Ikenberry. The Keydets added another run in the sixth on Louis Napoleon's fifth home run of the season.
Donnie Fields doubled home Roanoker Kelly Dampeer in the bottom of the 10th inning to lift Radford to a 7-6 Big South Conference victory over Towson State in Radford.
Travis Toms (4-2) got the pitching win for the Highlanders (18-13 overall, 12-3 Big South) with 2 innings of relief. Fields led Radford at the plate with four hits and two RBI, and Bill Brennan added three hits and three RBI.
Three Ferrum College players rapped four hits apiece as the Panthers chewed up Greensboro College 18-1 in a Dixie Conference game in Greensboro, N.C.
Chad Maddox was 4-for-6 with two doubles, three RBI and three runs; Jerry Dallas went 4-for-6 with a two-run home run, three RBI and three runs; and John Poindexter was 4-for-6 with two RBI and two runs.
Jim Hamilton (6-1) went the nine-inning distance to pick up the win, striking out nine and allowing seven hits and one walk for Ferrum (19-3 overall, 5-3 Dixie). Greensboro is 7-18 and 1-8.
Rod Pierce's two-run single with two out in the bottom of the eighth inning broke a 6-6 tie and pushed Bridgewater to a 9-6 Old Dominion Athletic Conference victory over Washington and Lee in Lexington.
Bridgewater (20-4 overall, 9-2 ODAC) built a 6-0 lead after the top of the sixth inning, but the Generals (5-11-1, 3-7) rallied for two in the bottom of the sixth and four more in the seventh before Pierce's game-winning hit.
Duane Van Arsdale had four RBI for the Generals.
by CNB