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

DATE: WEDNESDAY, June 2, 1993                   TAG: 9306020124
SECTION: SPORTS                    PAGE: C3   EDITION: STATE 
SOURCE: From staff reports
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Medium

BOTETOURT CRANKS GRETNA 15-1 IN REGION III SOFTBALL

Ashley Moore had a bases-clearing second-inning double and finished 3-for-3 with four RBI. Denise McNitt added two hits and three stolen bases. Janell Sowers went the distance to improve to 12-2 on the season. Sowers allowed three hits and struck out seven.

The Cavaliers will play Rustburg at 5 p.m. on Thursday in the semifinals. In other softball Tuesday:

At Floyd, Bobbie Joe Wright did it all as Glenvar snapped Castlewood's 18-game winning streak with a 7-0 win in the Region C tournament. Wright pitched a one-hitter and also went 2-for-3 with a triple. Kristy Robinson scored three runs and stole five bases for the Highlanders, who advance to meet James River for the fifth time this season.

BASEBALL: At Tazewell, the homestanding Bulldogs slugged two first-inning home runs off of Charlie Shrader on their way to a 7-2 win over Christiansburg in the first round of the Region IV tournament.

Tony Roop hit a solo homer in the first and Peery Heldreth followed with a three-run blast to put Tazewell on top for good. Eric Motley added a run-scoring fourth-inning double and Brandon Matley pitched a two-hit complete game for the Bulldogs. Tazewell will play Virginia High in Bristol on Thursday at 7 p.m.

Jay Basham belted a two-run homer in the second to give the Demons their only runs.

At Hillsville, Steve Dalton smashed a three-run, game-tying homer in the fifth inning and Jason Kilbourne drove home the game-winner in the sixth as Carroll County edged Gate City 7-5 in the first round of the Region IV tournament.

Kevin DeHaven hit a first-inning homer to give the Cavaliers a 1-0 lead, but the Blue Devils scored four in the second. Gate City led 5-2 in the fifth before Dalton's shot. Chris Crigger led off the sixth with his third hit and Kilbourne drove him home with a two-out single. Kilbourne eventually scored after two wild pitches.

Ray Briggs finished 2-for-3 with a run-scoring double for Carroll County, which will play Richlands at 6 p.m. Thursday at Bluefield in the semifinals. Reliever James Phillips picked up the win after getting out of a bases-loaded jam in the fourth. Brad Leonard earned the save by coaxing a ground-out with two on and two out in the seventh. See microfilm for box score.