Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, July 16, 1993 TAG: 9307160069
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: B10 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: From staff reports
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
Dampeer, a shortstop and pitcher, batted .463 for the Vikings in his senior season, with six home runs and 24 RBI. A four-time first-team All-Blue Ridge District selection, Dampeer is headed for Radford University on a baseball grant-in-aid.
The other finalists for the award were William Fleming junior Al Holland Jr., who was the Roanoke Valley District player of the year, and Lord Botetourt senior Donnie Meador, the Blue Ridge District player of the year.
Nominations are accepted from 22 area schools for the Bellamy Award, which was presented before the Salem Buccaneers' game on Roanoke-Salem Hall of Fame night at Municipal Field. William Byrd graduate Josh Herman, now playing at Virginia Tech, received the first award last summer.
In other sports in the region:
K.J. Hippensteel of Roanoke won the boys' 14-and-under singles zonal championship at Westside Tennis Club in Forest Hills, N.Y. Hippensteel, 13, beat Jason Matro of Ellison, N.J. 6-4, 6-2 to win the title.
Hippensteel, who also played some doubles and mixed doubles matches, finished the tournament 8-0. He was the only one of 10 players representing the Mid-Atlantic region to go undefeated. The Mid-Atlantic team placed fifth in a 12-team field.
Ryan Ketron of Roanoke got as far as the 17th hole of the final match before falling to Robby Rasmussen of Chesapeake 2 and 1 in the boys' 16-17 division of the Bobby Bowers golf tournament at Springfield Country Club.
Ketron, who will be a senior at William Byrd High School, had advanced to the championship with his fifth victory of the tournament, a 3-and-2 decision over Charlottesville's Greg Schneider in the semifinals Thursday morning.
Brandon LaCroix, also from Roanoke, won his first two matches before losing Thursday morning in the semifinals of the 13-and-under age group. LaCroix, a North Cross student, knocked off No. 1-seeded Troy Copenhaven on Wednesday.
Patty Murren will play Wake Forest teammate Dana Evens at 9 this morning for the singles championship of the Intercollegiate Tennis Association's Summer Circuit tournament in Blacksburg, then they will team up in the doubles final. Murren upset second-seeded Antonette Veloso of Rice 2-6, 6-4, 6-3 on Thursday, and Evens, seeded No. 1, defeated Raissa Remandaban of William and Mary 6-3, 6-0.
In doubles, Veloso and Remandaban defeated Virginia Tech's Jennifer Dinello and Cathy Dixon 6-2, 6-3 to reach today's 10:30 a.m. final against Murren and Evens, who alternate as Wake Forest's Nos. 2 and 3 players.
In the singles consolation match at 9 a.m., Dixon plays West Virginia's Cristy Fiber. Dixon defeated Meredith Siegfried of Notre Dame 6-0, 7-5, and Fiber beat Tech's Jennifer Whitley 6-3, 6-1.
Virginia has hired Melissa Sanders, a 1989 All-American at Iowa, as the Cavaliers' head field hockey coach.
1989 Mississippi graduate Scott Bennett, a Clemson graduate assistant for the past three years, is the new assistant strength and conditioning coach at Virginia Tech.
by CNB