Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: MONDAY, February 22, 1993 TAG: 9302220053
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: B4 EDITION: METRO
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MAROONS HOT ENTERING TOURNEYS
Roanoke College basketball teams are Maroon hot entering this week's Old Dominion Athletic Conference tournaments.Coach Susan Dunagan's women's team won its fifth straight regular-season ODAC championship, and they are shooting for their third straight tournament title. A win in the semifinals would ensure a seventh straight 20-win season.
Top-seeded Roanoke (18-5 overall, 15-5 ODAC), winner of four straight, will play No. 8 Eastern Mennonite in a quarterfinal game Wednesday at 7 p.m. in the Bast Center.
Debbie Puch (from Salem High School), Kay Caldwell (Cave Spring) and Amy Saunders (Patrick Henry) each average more than 10 points per game for the Maroons, who beat Eastern Mennonite by 30 and 15 this season.
Emory & Henry is seeded fourth, and Hollins is seventh. Lynchburg did not qualify for the tournament.
In the men's tournament, Roanoke is seeded second and has a Bast Center quarterfinal game against No. 7 Guilford on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. Page Moir's team has won six straight.
A quarterfinal win would give Roanoke its first 20-win season since 1984-85, and a semifinal win would be the school's 1,000th.
Emory & Henry is the top-seeded men's team, and defending champion Hampden-Sydney is seeded sixth. Washington and Lee and Lynchburg did not qualify for the tournament.
All men's quarterfinal games will be played Tuesday night at 7:30. at campus sites. Semifinals will be on Thursday at 7 and 9 p.m. at the Salem Civic Center.
The four women's quarterfinals will be played Wednesday at 7 p.m. at campus sites. The semifinals will be Friday at 1 and 3 p.m. at the Salem Civic Center.
The women's championship game will be at 1 p.m. and the men's final at 3 p.m. on Saturday, also at the civic center.
The ODAC tournament schedule, with seeds, records and pairings: SEE MICROFILM