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

DATE: FRIDAY, May 28, 1993                   TAG: 9305280121
SECTION: SPORTS                    PAGE: B-8   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: From staff reports
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Medium

HOKIES BEST ALL-AROUND IN METRO

The Hokies won the men's championship by one-half point over South Florida, 39.5 to 39. Tech won men's conference titles in golf and indoor track, and finished second in cross country and tennis.

In the women's race, Tech had 30.5 points. Virginia Commonwealth was second with 26.5. Tech's women tied for first in the conference in volleyball and finished second in basketball.

Other finishers in the men's race were VCU, 38; Southern Mississippi, 32; Tulane, 22; UNC Charlotte, 20.5; and Louisville, 20.

Behind Tech and VCU in the women's competition were Tulane, 25.5; Louisville, 24.5; South Florida, 24; Southern Mississippi, 19; and UNC Charlotte, 18.

In other college sports:

Virginia Tech volleyball player Lisa Pikalek received a $2,000 post-graduate scholarship at the Metro's annual awards dinner. Among the scholar athletes of the year were Pikalek, women's basketball player Christi Osborne and cross country runner Eric Parlette, all of Virginia Tech.

Virginia guard Cory Alexander, previously selected as one of the finalists for the United States team in the World University Games, has been instructed to join the Under-22 national team. UVa forward Junior Burrough is still among the group trying to gain a spot on the World University Games team, as is Kendrick Warren of Virginia Commonwealth. list in Scoreboard. B8.)

Radford has signed women's basketball players Nicole Gardiner and Nakia Bridges. Gardiner, a 5-foot-11 guard/forward, averaged 15.7 points, five rebounds and two steals last season at Casper (Wyo.) Junior College. Bridges, a 6-3 center, averaged 14 points, 10 rebounds and six blocks at Benjamin E. Mayes High School in Atlanta.

Washington and Lee freshman Josephine Schaeffer earned first-team All-America status by finishing second in the 10,000-meter run at the NCAA Division III Track and Field Championships at Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, Ohio. Schaeffer covered the distance in 36 minutes, 31.82 seconds, breaking her school record by more than a minute.