Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, May 31, 1990                   TAG: 9005310203
SECTION: SPORTS                    PAGE: C2   EDITION: BEDFORD
SOURCE: BOB TEITLEBAUM SPORTSWRITER
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Medium

EIGHT-RUN 4TH INNING SPARKS GLENVAR 13-0

At the time, the Highlanders had a one-run lead but hadn't gotten a hit in three innings.

"We do all the plays defensively, now let's start hitting," Harrison told his players as the Highlanders came to bat in the bottom of the fourth.

Glenvar responded by scoring eight runs and went on to wipe out St. Paul 13-0 in the first round of the Virginia High School League Group A tournament.

The Highlanders (19-5), defending state champions, advance to a semifinal Friday at 7 p.m. at the Salem Civic Center fields against the winner of today's Cumberland-Sussex game. Parry McCluer, an 8-3 winner at Honaker and the other Pioneer District team in the tournament, plays New Kent at 8:30 p.m. in the other semifinal.

April Watt led off the big inning with a double. It became an inning of terror for St. Paul (12-3) and pitcher Stacey Elam, who gave up eight hits.

Meanwhile, Glenvar pitcher Stephanie Martin was zipping along with a no-hitter. Martin escaped a minor jam in the sixth after a leadoff walk when she covered first on a perfectly executed double play that went from the pitcher to the shortstop to the first baseman.

"That's the first time we've done that, but we work at it in practice," Martin said. "We've had an injury and this was the first time Heather [Browning] has played first."

The injury was to leadoff hitter Terri Beamer, who sat out the game with a twisted knee suffered in the final of the Region C tournament. Her status for the rest of the state tournament is day-to-day.

Martin's no-hit bid ended in the seventh, when Elam blasted a leadoff double.

"I wasn't aware of the no-hitter," Martin said. "I was just going to pitch and not worry about anything else."

Stacy Setzer led Glenvar's attack with three RBI, including a single that drove in the first two runs of the fourth inning. Watt, Martin and Rachel Wilburn each had two hits for the Highlanders.

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Elam and Bellamy; Martin and Watt. W - Martin (10-3). L - Elam (4-2).