HOKIES WIN IN THE RAIN

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

DATE: WEDNESDAY, March 24, 1993                   TAG: 9303240186
SECTION: SPORTS                    PAGE: B2   EDITION: STATE 
SOURCE: From staff reports
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Medium
HOKIES WIN IN THE RAIN
Virginia Tech scored five runs in the second inning and defeated Howard 7-2 Tuesday in a baseball game played in steady rain at English Field.
The game was called after five innings, but Tech improved to 10-2, while Howard dropped to 1-18.
Howard scored when the first batter of the game, Marvin Spinner, hit a home run to right field, and Spinner knocked in the Bison's other run in the fifth.
Mike Reedy's two-run single and Josh Herman's RBI single highlighted the Hokies' second-inning scoring onslaught. Herman finished with three hits, and Reedy went 2-for-2 with a walk.
Right-hander Scott Robertson picked up the victory.
Tech is scheduled to play host to Appalachian State today at 3 p.m.
In other college sports:
Virginia's third-ranked women's lacrosse team upended top-ranked Maryland 11-9 at Scott Stadium in Charlottesville.
Amy Breen scored four goals, including the game-clinching goal with six seconds remaining. Anna Yates and Cherie Greer each had two goals as the Cavaliers improved to 5-0.
VMI's men's lacrosse team romped over Virginia Tech 24-5 in a heavy downpour at Patchin Field in Lexington.
Spencer Gill and Mike Peters scored four goals each, Jason Dobson added three and John Westfall and Dan DeLawyer had two to lead the Keydets (3-2). Adam Randall led the Hokies (2-2) with two goals.
Emory & Henry men's basketball coach Bob Johnson on Tuesday was named the 1993 NABC Kodak Division III South Region Coach of the Year. Johnson, the top-winning coach in school history, also won the award in 1986 and 1991.
Johnson's 1992-93 team advanced to the Division III Sweet 16 and finished 23-5. In the past six seasons, the Wasps are 135-38 with five national tournament berths.
The National Association of Basketball Coaches each year selects 15 Division I, eight Division II and eight Division III coaches of the year. These, along with NCAA and NIT final four coaches, form a pool from which the national coaches of the year will be selected on April 4.
Washington and Lee senior Jimmy Kull shot a two-day score of 154 and tied for third with Trey Petty of VMI in the Ferrum Invitational golf tournament at par-72 Water's Edge on Smith Mountain Lake.
R.J. Weaver and Matt Jordan of Ferrum each had a 157 total to tie for sixth. Glenn Prillaman led Roanoke with a 165 total.
Greensboro won the team title with a 629 total, two shots ahead of Christopher Newport. Hampden-Sydney was third at 637, followed by Washington and Lee and Ferrum at 638. VMI was seventh at 675, with Roanoke eighth at 676.
Head coach Jim Shuck and his VMI football team will hit the field today for the first of 15 practices that are scheduled to wrap up April 17. No spring game is scheduled, but controlled scrimmages are scheduled April 3 and 17.
The Keydets have to fill seven offensive starting slots, including Tony Scales at quarterback. Among the other holes Shuck needs to fill are center, where Lorenzo Carpenter starred, and tight end, where Dan Lyle had a fine career.
There are four vacant starting spots on defense.

by Archana Subramaniam by CNB