ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Friday, January 19, 1996 TAG: 9601190058
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: B-7 EDITION: METRO
TYPE: IN THE REGION
SOURCE: FROM STAFF REPORTS
The Roanoke Express-Columbus Chill hockey game on Feb.20 will be televised locally on WDRG (Channel 24), the team announced Thursday.
The game will be the first live broadcast of an Express home game. SportsChannel Ohio is producing the broadcast for its local affiliates, with WDRG picking up the SportsChannel Ohio feed.
Based in Danville, WDRG reaches an estimated 465,000 homes in Virginia and North Carolina. Cox Cable in Roanoke carries WDRG on Channel 22.
``WDRG will allow us to hit over 150,000 households on cable alone, above and beyond the hundreds of thousands of people who are able to pick up the broadcast with regular television on Channel 24,'' said Tim Woodburn, the Express' director of marketing and broadcasting.
In other sports in the region:
Mike Fisher of the University of Virginia has been chosen the nation's top college soccer player by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America.
Fisher receives the Hermann Trophy, considered the most prestigious award in college soccer. He joins former UVa standouts Tony Meola (1989) and Claudio Reyna (1993) as Hermann Trophy winners.
Fisher, a junior forward from Doylestown, Pa., led the nation in scoring with 21 goals and 15 assists. He was the only player nationally to rank in the top five in both goals and assists. Fisher recorded a goal or an assist in 20 of 22 games and averaged a goal every 3.33 shots he attempted.
Virginia teammate Damian Silvera and Matt McKeon of St.Louis University were the other finalists for the Hermann Trophy.
The Cavaliers finished 21-1-2 and reached the NCAA tournament semifinals before losing to Duke.
Virginia Tech plays host to the Virginia State Division I wrestling tournament tonight and Saturday afternoon at Cassell Coliseum.
Six schools - Tech, George Mason, James Madison, Old Dominion, Virginia and VMI - will compete in the double-elimination tournament. Preliminary rounds begin at 6 p.m. today. Semifinals start at 10 a.m. Saturday, with the championship finals at 4 p.m.
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