Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, May 9, 1995                   TAG: 9505090109
SECTION: SPORTS                    PAGE: B-2   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: FROM STAFF REPORTS
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Medium

LEASE DEAL A VICTORY FOR RUSH

City Council on Monday approved a cut-rate lease with a semipro football team - the Roanoke Rush - that will bring the team to Victory Stadium for six games beginning this summer.

The 7-0 vote grants the use of the stadium to the football team, which is owned by Nick Rush, a Christiansburg businessman and member of the Montgomery County Board of Supervisors.

Council agreed, for one year only, to cut lease payments on the stadium to 4 percent of ticket revenues, rather than the usual fee of 8 percent. The city also will get 20 percent of the gross receipts from concessions.

Home games are tentatively scheduled for Aug.5, Aug.12, Sept.9, Sept.30, Oct.7 and Oct.21.

In other sports in the region:

Virginia qualified as a team and Virginia Tech's Brian Sharp qualified as an individual for the NCAA East Regional golf tournament May 18-20 in New Haven, Conn.

Virginia was among eight teams chosen from District 3 North. Sharp, who was the Metro Conference's individual champion, and Duke's Joe Oglivie were the only individuals selected from the district.

Duane Filchner scored five runs and drove in four to lead Radford to a doubleheader sweep of Coastal Carolina in Big South Conference baseball in Conway, S.C.

Filchner hit two home runs, had four RBI and scored three times in the Highlanders' 13-4 victory in the first game. Filchner's two runs in the 11-5 victory in the nightcap gave him 57 for the season, breaking his school season record of 55 set last season. Jeff Dean drove in three runs in the second game for Radford (27-22 overall, 14-6 Big South). Coastal Carolina is 16-35 and 5-15.

Wilson Pasley of Roanoke Valley Christian was a finalist in the Virginia Independent Conference boys' singles tennis championships at North Cross.

Pasley defeated Jack Leahy of Lynchburg Christian Academy 6-4, 6-1 in his semifinal, but fell to Todd Hutto of Hargrave Military Academy 6-0, 6-1 in the championship match. North Cross' Steven Nichols won a quarterfinal against Eastern Mennonite's Brian Diener 7-6, 3-6, 6-1, but lost to Hutto 6-0, 6-0 in the other semifinal.

Brandon LaCroix of North Cross shot a 73, leading the Raiders to a team score of 313 and the championship of the Virginia Independent Conference tournament at Roanoke Country Club. Carlisle was second, at 316, and Roanoke Valley Christian was third ,at 333. (Scores in Scoreboard. B3)

The under-12 White boys' squad became the first Roanoke Star soccer team to reach the final four of the state championships when it won three games during the weekend at the River's Edge sports complex. The state final four is June 3-4 in Richmond.