Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, November 23, 1995 TAG: 9511280051
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: B-3 EDITION: HOLIDAY
SOURCE: FROM STAFF REPORTS
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
The 1996 Carolina League baseball season opens April 5, when Salem visits Prince William. The Avalanche opens its first full season at 6,000-seat Salem Memorial Baseball Stadium on April 8 against Wilmington. Salem will play a 70-game home schedule.
The 1996 season-ticket prices are $350 for a box seat, $280 reserved and $150 general admission. The Avalanche also is offering six mini-plans to give fans a variety of options. A weekend plan includes 32 games, and a Sunday package includes 10 games.
Avalanche tickets will be on sale at the club's office on Florida Street in Salem, next to Kiwanis (formerly Municipal) Field, or by phoning the team at 389-3333, beginning Monday.
In other sports in the region:
The Virginia Tech volleyball team was one of four squads to earn berths in the Atlantic 10 Conference tournament, which will be played Friday and Saturday in Amherst, Mass.
Tech (22-11), which swept Fordham and La Salle last weekend to finish 13-7 in the league and earn the fourth seed, will face regular-season champion George Washington (27-5 overall, 18-2 conference) at 8 p.m. in Friday's first round. No.2 Rhode Island meets No.3 Massachusetts at 5:30. The winners meet Saturday in the title game.
Coach Stephanie Hawbecker's Hokies had two players on the All-Atlantic 10 team announced Wednesday. Senior outside hitter Jennifer Arbuckle of Charlottesville and senior middle blocker Jennifer Schmidt of Eden Prairie, Minn., were named to the second team.
Ferrum College's Emerson Umana was a second-team selection on the Virginia Intercollegiate Soccer Association's All-State squad announced Wednesday. Umana, a senior, had three goals and a team-leading five assists to earn second-team honors as the Panthers went 9-8-1.
Members of the Roanoke Valley Sports Club will be extended a special rate of $10 for each of two Amos Alonzo Stagg Stagg Bowl week luncheons at noon Dec.7 and Dec.8 in Salem.
The Gagliardi Trophy presentation will take place Dec.7 at the weekly Salem Rotary club meeting. Sports club members may attend that session, in addition to the Salute to Champions luncheon, sponsored by WDBJ, the following day.
Both banquets will be held in the Salem Civic Center's community room. St.John's (Minn.) coach John Gagliardi will be in attendance at Thursday's session to present the award, in his honor, that goes annually to the NCAA Division III football player of the year. Tom Brookshier, a former NFL analyst for CBS Sports, is the guest speaker for the Dec.8 luncheon, which will be attended by both Stagg Bowl teams.
Sports club member reservations are required for both luncheons and must be made by Tuesday, to Roanoke Valley Sports Club, P.O. Box 1112, Salem, 24153. For information, call Dan Wooldridge at the Old Dominion Athletic Conference office at 389-7373.
Jim Reid, head football coach at the University of Richmond, was selected as the Yankee Conference co-coach of the year by the league's coaches. He shared the honor with Rhode Island's Floyd Keith.
by CNB