Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: TUESDAY, August 1, 1995 TAG: 9508010062
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: B-3 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: STAFF REPORT
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
The schedule includes 70 regular-season games - two more than last season - and three preseason games, two of which will be played on the road.
By virtue of a rule change in the 21-team league, Roanoke will play 18 of the other 20 ECHL clubs at least once. The Knoxville Cherokees and expansion Louisiana Ice Gators are the two teams not on the Express schedule. In addition to playing each of its five East Division rivals (South Carolina, Raleigh, Richmond, Hampton Roads and Charlotte) a total of 10 games each, the Express will play 10 of the remaining 15 clubs at least once at the Roanoke Civic Center.
The 20 weekend dates are more than the Express had last season. The three Sunday afternoon games are two more than in the franchise's first two seasons combined.
Roanoke opens the regular season at home on Friday, Oct.13 against the Richmond Renegades, the defending Riley Cup champions.
In other sports in the region:
Sixteen-year-old Cameron Yancey of Blackstone fired a 3-under-par 69 at Kingsmill Golf Club in Williamsburg to take the first-round lead in the 54-hole Virginia State Golf Association Junior boys' golf championship.
Yancey had five birdies and two bogeys on the 6,516-yard course that is the site of the annual Anheuser-Busch Classic PGA Tour event.
Shane Foster of Earlysville is second at 70, while Willy Thompson of South Boston is third at 71. Roanoker Justin Young was fourth after matching par-72.
Lee Fisher of Bedford (74) stands seventh in the 126-player field, while Martinsville's Neil Norris and 13-year-old Lee Taylor of Roanoke are bunched with seven others at 75.
Troutville's Mark Sweeney, who finished second in last week's Roanoke Valley Golf Hall of Fame Juniors, had a 77, along with Roanokers Jason Orlando and Brandon LaCroix.
Martinsville's Marty Stanley, winner of the recent Andrew Haley Memorial, had a 78, along with Martinsville's Robby Burton, Lexington's Eric Reynolds and Roanoke's Trey Clower.
Chester's B.K. Kelley fired a 2-under 34 for nine holes to take a one-shot lead on Radford's Ryan Sypniewski in the 11-and-under age group. Scores in Scoreboard. B4.
Guilford (N.C.) College was picked to win the 1995 Old Dominion Athletic Conference football race in a vote of league coaches.
The Quakers, who were 8-2 overall and 3-2 in the ODAC in 1994, return 54 lettermen from a team that finished in a tie for second place.
Defending champion Emory & Henry was picked to finish second, followed by Randolph-Macon, Washington and Lee, Hampden-Sydney and Bridgewater.
Road games at Virginia (Dec.30) and Virginia Tech (Feb.12) and home dates with Mt.St.Mary's (Nov.27) and Virginia Commonwealth (Dec.2) highlight Liberty's 1995-96 men's basketball schedule.
The Flames have 12 home games and 13 away contests with one date still to be filled. Liberty will play host to the Big South Conference tournament Feb.29-March 2.
by CNB