ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Tuesday, July 30, 1996 TAG: 9607300092
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: B-4 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: FROM STAFF REPORTS
Forget the 14- and 15-year-old age group. Roanoker Trey Clower had something for everybody Monday at the Waterfront Country Club.
Clower, a rising ninth-grader at the North Cross School, tied a tournament record with a 3-under-par 68 to provide the big story in the first round of the Smith Mountain Lake Junior Open.
Clower, 15, had five birdies and two bogeys in touring the 6,111-yard layout in 33-35. He beat everyone in his age group, not to mention a field of 81 in the 16-18 division.
Andy Dofflemyer of Earlysville, who had a 71, is the only player in the 14-15 group within five shots of Clower. Roanokers Chris Pugh and Ryan Crush are at 74.
In the featured 16-18 class, Roanoke's Mike Damiano is tied for the lead at 70 with North Cross teammates Brandon LaCroix and Brian Whitaker. Bedford's Lee Fisher also posted a 70.
Roanoke's Daryl Byrd matched par at 71, while Tommy Lesperance of Salem carded a 72.
Matt Chandler of Glade Hill leads the 11-13 division at 70. Radford's Ryan Sypniewski is second, at 76.
The 36-hole tournament concludes today.
In other sports news in the region:
A field of 120 junior boys and girls representing 25 states and Canada will converge on The Homestead Resort in Hot Springs for the third ClubCorp Junior Players Championship.
The 54-hole medal-play tournament will be played Wednesday through Friday. The event includes three divisions: boys' 13-14, boys' 15-18 and girls' 13-18, which includes 21 entries.
Many of the top players on the American Junior Golf Association tour are entered. Top Southwest Virginia entrants include Wytheville's Joannah Pattison and the Roanoke trio of Lee Taylor, Brandon LaCroix and Jacob Jarrett.
Roanoke's Chip Sullivan fired a blistering 6-under-par 65 to take a three-shot lead at the halfway point of the Middle Atlantic PGA's Assistant Professionals Championship at Ford's Colony in Williamsburg.
Sullivan, teaching pro at Roanoke's Hanging Rock Golf Club, had six birdies and no bogeys in shooting nines of 32-33. The 65 was a competitive course record.
Craig Gunn of Danville, Rick Schuller of Reston and Michael Ellis of Bethesda, Md., share second place at 68 heading into today's final round.
The Cave Spring American baseball all-stars bounced back from a Sunday night loss with an extra-innings victory to stay alive in the state tournament for 12-year-olds.
In Monday's game, Cave Spring rallied from a two-run deficit to tie it in the bottom of the sixth. After a pair of walks, Andrew Holben hit a two-run double to force extra innings. Tom Hagen hit a two-out double in the eighth and came around to score on a pair of throwing errors as J.J. Reddick picked up the victory.
Dale City beat Cave Spring 10-2 on Sunday night. The Roanoke County squad meets Abingdon today in a quarterfinal in Portsmouth.
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