ROANOKE TIMES 

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

DATE: SATURDAY, March 27, 1993                   TAG: 9303270224
SECTION: SPORTS                    PAGE: B5   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: From staff reports
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Medium

SHORTSTOP SPARKS TECH TO VICTORY

Former Cave Spring standout Dee Dalton scored four runs and had three hits, an RBI and a stolen base Friday to lead Virginia Tech to an 8-5 Metro Conference baseball victory over Virginia Commonwealth at The Diamond in Richmond.

Dalton tripled and scored Tech's first run in the second inning. In the fourth, the shortstop doubled before scoring. He singled, stole a base and scored on a sacrifice fly by Popeye Smith in the sixth inning and walked and scored on a single by Smith in the eighth inning.

Denny Hedspeth, Smith and Ken Nonamaker each drove in two runs for the Hokies (11-2, 1-0). Pitcher Ron Preston struck out seven and walked three in 8 innings as he got his second win of the season.

In other college sports action:

Virginia is fifth at 300 and Virginia Tech is 11th at 306 after Friday's first round of the rain-plagued 54-hole Furman Intercollegiate Golf Tournament in Greenville, S.C. UT-Chattanooga, which played in the morning before the rain hit the par-72, 6,800-yard Furman University course, leads the team standings with a 292 total. UTC's Neil Connolly and Gareth Lord are tied with Ohio State's Bobby Sims for the individual lead after first-round 70s. Roanoker Lewis Conner paced the Tech contingent with a 74.

Roanoke College senior Glen Prillaman and Hampden-Sydney's Peter Leggett shared medalist honors at 72 in an Old Dominion Athletic Conference golf match at Glenrochie Country Club in Abingdon. Hampden-Sydney won at 302, followed by Roanoke at 322 and Emory & Henry at 366.

The second Ferrum College Invitational Softball Tournament will be held this weekend at the James Moyer Sports Complex in Salem. Twelve teams, including host Ferrum and Emory & Henry, will make up three pools. Today's pool play will start at 9 a.m. and run all day until about 6 p.m. On Sunday, there will be playoff games at 9 and 10:30 a.m., semifinals at noon and the championship game at 1:30 p.m. 


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