Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, April 15, 1993 TAG: 9304150333
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: S-15 EDITION: METRO
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SPORTS BRIEFS
Exhibition soccer game rescheduled for FridayThe Cave Spring High School Soccer Booster Club has rescheduled its Soccer Appreciation Night for Friday. The event was postponed from April 2 because of bad weather.
Varsity squads from Cave Spring High and North Cross schools will compete at 7:30 p.m. at Cave Spring Stadium.
Admission is $2 for adults and $1 for children. Southwest County Soccer Club players and coaches will be admitted free if they wear their team T-shirts.
AAU boys progress in postseason play
The Roanoke Valley Basketball Association is having a rewarding first season. Six of its seven AAU teams have advanced to postseason play, three of which have clinched berths in state tournaments.
The 11-and-under Roanoke Valley Gold boys' team took first place in tournaments in Greensboro, N.C., Staunton and Waynesboro. The team also won the AAU Southwest Regional Tournament and is headed for the state tourney in Charlottesville April 23.
The 12-and-under Roanoke Valley Gold boys also will advance to the state tourney after taking first place in Staunton, second place in Roanoke and first in the regionals.
The Roanoke Valley Hawks (14-and-under boys) placed second in the regional tournament and also is headed for state action in Charlottesville.
The 13-and-under team will play in the regional tournament Thursday through Sunday, and the 16-and-under and 17-and-under teams will go to regionals in May.
3 Gators go to zone on Va. All-Star team
Three members of the Roanoke Valley Swimming Inc. Gators traveled to the Eastern Zone Championships at the University of New York in Buffalo April 2-4 as part of the Virginia All-Star Swimming Team.
The championship meet involved top swimmers, ages 9-18, from Virginia north through Maine. Gators Laura Webb, David Parker and Ashley Neighbors, all 10 years old, swam the first or second fastest times in the state in one or more strokes during the 1992-93 short course season to qualify for this meet.
In Buffalo, Webb swam fourth place in the 100-yard individual medley and 50-yard backstroke. She placed sixth in the 200-yard individual medley, 11th in the 50-yard breast stroke and 14th in the 100-yard butterfly. She was a member of the fourth-place team in the 200-yard freestyle relay and swam a record time of :31.40 in the 200-yard medley relay, in which her team took second place.
Parker placed eighth in the 100-yard backstroke and 11th in the 200-yard freestyle. His relay teams in the 400-yard and 200-yard freestyle placed second and third, respectively.
Neighbors swam a personal best of 1:21.94 in the 100-yard breast stroke to place 10th in the zone.
Webb, daughter of Dawn and Dwaine Webb, is a fifth-grader at Cloverdale Elementary School. Parker, son of Lazzelle and Joe Parker, is a fifth-grader at Cave Spring Elementary School. Neighbors, daughter of Diane and Dennis Neighbors, is a fifth-grader at Green Valley Elementary School.