THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Friday, July 28, 1995 TAG: 9507270158
SECTION: VIRGINIA BEACH BEACON PAGE: 14 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: BY LEE TOLLIVER, BEACON SPORTS EDITOR
LENGTH: Long : 112 lines
THREE AREA SOCCER players will enjoy the fruits of the Atlantic Travel Soccer Club's annual Labor Day Classic tournament when they attend the colleges of their choice this fall.
Jeremy Lehr, Jacob Etheridge and P.J. Burns - all of Kellam - are the first recipients of Atlantic's newly founded scholarship program.
Funds for the program were generated from the Labor Day Classic - which will be held for the third time the first weekend in September. Each athlete was awarded $250.
Lehr - a Virginia Group AAA honorable mention player and the Knights' all-time leading scorer - will play for Virginia Wesleyan.
Etheridge - who was chosen for the Virginia State Coaches Association All-Star team - will play at Francis Marion University.
Burns - who earned athlete of the week honors from The Virginian-Pilot and was an academic standout with a 3.7 GPA - will play at Virginia Tech.
More and more money
The Virginia Beach Sports Club - founded in 1952 - recently topped the $260,600 mark in total scholarships given away when it presented this year's awards to 14 Beach high school athletes.
Each scholarship presented this year was for $1,500.
This year recipients were Alisha Brimhall of Kempsville, who will attend Brigham Young University; Jennifer Clarke of Princess Anne, Mary Washington College; Traci Coyle of Tallwood, James Madison; Alex Everhart of First Colonial, William and Mary; Alexis Fischer of Cape Henry Collegiate, University of Colorado; Jason Luck of Salem, Duke University; Jennifer Mullen of Princess Anne, Virginia; Stephanie Reavis of First Colonial, Virginia; Brandy Reis of Green Run, Princeton; Aileen Ruaya of Tallwood, William and Mary; Matt Schliske of Cox, Vanderbilt; Erin Sievers of Kellam, Campbell; Mary Soules of Salem, Queens College; and Erin Stubbe of Bayside, William and Mary.
Each of these student athletes finished in the top 10 percent of their respective graduating classes.
Wanted: all-star players
Former Salem High and All-Beach District field hockey keeper Jolette Salonga is forming a team to take to the 1995 Hockey Festival.
The tournament will be held Nov. 23-26 in Palm Springs, Calif., and Salonga will hold tryouts at 2 p.m. Thursday at Virginia Wesleyan.
She will choose 16 players to represent the Beach in the tournament.
For more information, call Salonga at 479-1206 or Mrs. Muha at 479-9594.
Scrumy finish
The Virginia Beach Falcons Rugby Football Club recently captured the championship in the Cape Fear Sevens rugby tournament - the largest seven-a-side rugby tournament in the country.
The event - held in Wilmington, N.C., featured 72 teams in divisions for women's masters, open and club. The Falcons played in the club division - the largest in the tournament.
Sponsored by Worrel Brothers Restaurant and Bar at the Oceanfront, the Falcons defeated the Asheville Mountaineers, 34-7, in the title game.
In finishing with a 5-1 record, the Falcons out-scored opponents, 152-44. Mark Henfrey tied a club record by finishing with nine tries for 45 points. Huey Mooney finished with 27 points, followed by Brian Beaulieu and Rick Horner with 25 each.
The Falcons will begin a new practice season on Aug. 8, with sessions at 6:30 p.m. every Tuesday and Thursday at the Little Creek Naval Amphibious Base.
For more information on the team, call 552-6999.
Softball tournament
The 1995 Tidewater Championship softball tournament, sponsored by the Chesapeake Parks and Recreation Department, will be held Aug. 8-11 at Greenbrier Park and Indian River High School. Admission is free and concessions will be available.
The Tidewater Championship will consist of 32 teams. The cities of Chesapeake, Virginia Beach, Norfolk, and Portsmouth will be represented by two teams each in the men's, women's, church, and coed leagues.
The championship finals will be held at the two fields at Greenbrier Park on Aug. 11. The Coed and Church finals will start at 7 p.m., followed by an accuracy hitting contest for women and the men's home run contest. The women's and men's team finals are scheduled to begin at 9 p.m.
All-American
Derrick Lipoli, a rising ninth-grader at Cox High, recently earned All-American status for his sixth-place finish in the AAU National Wrestling Tournament.
Lipoli, a two-time city middle school champion at Great Neck, transferred last winter to Miller Military Academy, but has decided to return for his freshman year at Cox this fall.
In the AAU event held in Tulsa, Okla., he wrestled in the 138-pound class.
Volleyball
The second annual Salem High volleyball skills and pre-season conditioning camp will be held from 6 to 9 p.m. July 31 through Aug. 4 at Salem. The cost is $35 and registration will begin at 5:30 p.m. the first day of the camp.
For more information, call Owen Dixon at 467-8514 during the evening hours.
Feeding frenzy
The Hampton Roads Sharks semi-professional football team opens its season at 2:30 p.m. Aug. 6 at the Center for Effective Learning field, but not until an old-fashioned tailgate party is held beginning at noon.
Tickets to the game are $3 to $5 and information about the party can be obtained by calling 463-6741. ILLUSTRATION: Kellam's P.J. Burns, left, Jacob Etheridge and Jeremy Lehr are
the first recipients of Atlantic Travel Soccer Club's's newly
founded scholarship program. Each athlete was awarded $250.
by CNB