Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, November 5, 1993 TAG: 9311050139
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: B-7 EDITION: STATE
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The tournament opens at 4 p.m. today with No. 2 seed Greensboro facing seventh-seeded North Carolina Wesleyan. The third-seeded Panthers take on No. 6 Christopher Newport at 6 p.m., and No. 4 Methodist faces No. Shenandoah at 8 p.m.
Top-seeded Averett receives a bye in the first round and will face the Methodist-Shenandoah winner at noon Saturday.
Southern Conference men's soccer teams will have much at stake today when the league's tournament opens at Bryan Park in Greensboro, N.C.
For the first time, the champion of the event will earn an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.
VMI, the sixth seed, will take on No. 3 seed Georgia Southern at noon in the second match of the day.
The other pairings are No. 2 seed Appalachian State against No. 7 The Citadel and No. 4 Marshall against No. 5 Davidson. Top-seeded Furman received a first-round bye and will play the Marshall-Davidson winner at noon on Saturday.
In Chapel Hill, N.C., Virginia scored three goals in the first 22 minutes, and went on to blank Wake Forest 4-0 in the opening round of the men's Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament Thursday.
Nate Friends knocked in two of the third-seeded Cavaliers' first three goals, and added an assist. Wake Forest, seeded sixth in the tournament, managed only six shots on goal.
Virginia advances to today's semifinals against second-seeded Duke, who beat seventh-seeded Maryland 3-2 in overtime Thursday.
Radford University's Kokeda Sheppard was one of 12 players selected to the 1993 All Colonial Athletic Association field hockey team.
Sheppard, a senior from the Bronx, N.Y., was chosen to the team as a forward. She scored the team's only goal in a 1-0 win over then 20th-ranked Virginia Commonwealth, the Highlanders' first win ever over a ranked opponent. team, tournament schedule in Scoreboard.)
Micki Hough, a junior forward from Stafford, was the only other Radford player honored. She was selected to the second team.
by CNB