Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: TUESDAY, October 24, 1995 TAG: 9510240049
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: B-2 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: FROM STAFF REPORTS
DATELINE: LENGTH: Long
To accommodate ABC, kickoff for the Lane Stadium matchup between the top two teams in the Big East Conference has been moved from 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
The game will be carried locally by WSET (Channel 13).
It will be the Hokies' fifth appearance on television this season. Tech's season opener against Boston College was televised by ESPN. Counting this Saturday's game against West Virginia (WSLS Channel 10, noon), Tech has appeared three times on the Big East Network.
GOLF Northside, Young lead Group AA
Justin Young and Jacob Jarrett provided two of the lowest three scores Monday in the Group AA golf tournament as the Northside Vikings grabbed a two-stroke lead over Harrisonburg on the first day of the two-day affair at Carper's Valley Golf Course in Winchester.
The Vikings shot 307 to the Blue Streaks' 309. York is third with 318, and Martinsville is in fourth at 324. Loudoun Valley, the defending champion, is in fifth at 331.
Young and Mike Gooden of R.E. Lee-Staunton each shot 72 to share first place. Jarrett is in third with a 74.
Patrick Henry's Mark Baldwin shot an 89 and Ernie Cochran of Cave Spring carded a 90 during the first day of the Group AAA golf tournament at the Virginia Oakes Golf Course in Gainesville. Mike King of Mills Godwin shot a 74 to lead his team to first place at 314. Frank Cox is three strokes back at 317. The two-day tournament concludes today.
In Hot Springs, Stonewall Jackson-Mount Jackson shot a four-man total of 329 and opened a 14-shot lead over Giles in the first round of the Group A golf championship.
Eric Hooke of Highland County and Jeff Greenmun of Stuarts Draft turned in even-par 72s on the 6,619-yard layout of The Homestead's Lower Cascades course to share the individual lead. They were five better than Paul Hurley of West Point and six ahead of Tom Lesperance of Glenvar.
Troy Copenhaver led Stonewall Jackson with an 80, Chris Carson had an 82, Rhodes Ritenour an 83 and John Weissenborn an 84. Only four of the 72 players broke 80 on the first day of the two-day, 36-hole tournament.
Powell Valley was third in the team competition with a 344, and defending champion Glenvar was fourth, 17 shots off the pace with a 346.
New Kent was fifth in the team standings after a 356, Buffalo Gap had a 365, Nandua had a 372 and Coeburn was last with a 388.
Individually, K.P. Harris of New Kent and Jess Philpot of Northampton joined Copenhaver with 80s, and Brian Love of George Wythe and David McCall of Giles County joined Carson at 82.
Roanoke teams dominated the Southern Chapter Pro Senior golf tournament at London Downs Golf Course in Lynchburg, winning both the gross and net divisions.
Mark Fry of Roanoke Country Club shot a 5-under par 67 to grab individual honors and teamed with Bill Shrader and Ned Baber, also of Roanoke Country Club, and Gibby Wingfield of Blue Hills to win the gross title. The team shot a 12-under par 132 to win their division by nine strokes.
Hanging Rock's Chip Sullivan shot a 69 to finish second individually.
Billy King finished tied for third at 72 and led a Blue Hills team to the net title. King, Bill Edmonds, Bill Jennings and Odell Bradley finished with a 19-under par 125.
The Virginia Tech golf team posted a final-round score of 310 to finish 14th at the Duke Golf Classic in Durham N.C. East Tennessee State fired a 54-hole score of 875 to win the team title.
Tech's Robby Rasmussen shot rounds of 76-77-75 to finish tied for 32nd.
Jeremy Julie shot a 72 to tie for third and lead Virginia's Blue team to second place on the first day of the Chris Cothran Golf Tournament at Draper Valley Golf Club in Draper. The tournament concludes today.
Jamie Stanley of South Carolina-Aiken carded a 69 and teammate Ben Warren had a 71 to as the Pacers finished first at 289. Virginia is nine shots back at 298 and Charleston Southern is third at 303.
Radford's Eddie Kurpiel shot a one-under 35 on the front nine en route to a 3-over par 75 and a five-way tie for eighth. The Highlanders are in seventh place at 314.
VMI is 12th at 332 in a tournament that honors Cothran, a former Radford golfer who was killed in a car accident in August.
Arena set to lead U.S. team
A news conference has been scheduled for 2 p.m. today at which Bruce Arena is expected to be named coach of the under-23 national team that will represent the United States in the Summer Olympics.
The announcement has been scheduled for RFK Stadium, leading to speculation that Arena also will be named to head the new Major League Soccer franchise in Washington.
There is a possibility that Arena, under whose direction Virginia has won four consecutive Division I championships, could take a leave of absence from UVa to coach the Olympic team and work in an as-yet undetermined capacity for MSL.
The Cavaliers are 13-0-2 this season and are ranked No. 1 in the country.
Arena took over at Virginia in 1978 and has compiled a record of 287-57-32 in 17-plus seasons. Virginia won its first NCAA title in 1989, lost in the quarterfinals the following year and has won the title every year since. Last season, the Cavaliers beat Indiana 1-0 for the championship.
Arena's program has produced 26 all-Americans and several national players of the year, including Tony Meola, the goalkeeper on the 1994 U.S. World Cup team, and World Cup team midfielders John Harkes (1990, 1994) and Claudio Reyna (1994).
Three Old Dominion Athletic Conference tournaments begin today. Roanoke College will play host host to a quarterfinal field hockey match as the No.2-seeded Maroons face No.7 Sweet Briar.
The No.6 Roanoke men's soccer team is at No.3 Randolph-Macon. Washington and Lee, the No.7 seed is at No.2 Emory & Henry.
Bill Lindsey, a 49-year-old salesman from Roanoke, took home a world title from the World Drug-Free Powerlifting Federation championships in St.Louis this past weekend.
Lindsey lifted 314 pounds in the bench press to capture a Masters Division championship in the 45-49 age group.
Lindsey is a reigning state masters champion, but had not previously competed in the world event.
``It's the first time it's been held in the United States in several years,'' said Lindsey, who trains at the Roanoke Athletic Club.
Lindsey is entered in the American Drug-Free Powerlifting Association championships next month in Denver. He was third in that event last year.
by CNB