Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SUNDAY, March 6, 1994 TAG: 9403060206
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: C-10 EDITION: METRO
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Dante Winslow won the 158-pound title with a pin over James Madison's Brian Gray in 5 minutes, 49 seconds. Winslow (26-1) went to the NCAA championships in 1991. Tech heavyweight Josh Feldman avenged two earlier defeats by beating Old Dominion's Nick Hall 3-2 in the finals. Feldman (25-5) became the first wrestler to win three consecutive CAA titles and will make his third straight trip to the NCAA championships.
William Fleming's Dominique Millner won the long jump and placed third in the triple jump at the Group AAA state indoor track championships Saturday at George Mason University in Fairfax. Millner, a senior, won the long jump with a leap of 23-9 3/4 and went 46-8\ in the triple jump. Both marks were personal bests. The Fleming boys finished tied for 10th. Hayfield won the boys' title.
Patrick Henry's boys' team finished fifth. Jamie Price was second in the 55-meter dash in 6.21 seconds and was third in the 300-meter dash with a time of 35.32; Randy Burch was third in the pole vault at 13 feet, 9 inches.
Salem's boys were sixth. Charles Reid won the 55-meter hurdles in 7.42 seconds and Mike Brown placed second in the 1,000 meters in 2:31.67.
Cave Spring's Jason Dowdy finished 10th in the 3,200 meter run with a time of 9 minutes, 46 seconds.
In the girls' competition, Cave Spring's Emily Rakes won the high jump, clearing a school-record 5 feet, 8 inches. Salem's Sherlane Armstrong finished third in the triple jump with a leap of 37 feet, 4 inches and fourth in the long jump at 17 feet, 5.5 inches. The Cave Spring and Salem girls finished tied for 13th with 10 points, and T.C. Williams won with 50 points.
Finn Pincus usually coaches Roanoke College's track and field team, but Saturday he took to the track himself and won the 5,000-meters run at the Virginia Masters Indoor Track and Field Championships at VMI in Lexington. Pincus, 38, beat his nearest challenger by 30 seconds, finishing in 16 minutes and 59 seconds. Roanoke's Alvin Smith, a Roanoke College alumnus and former record-holder, won the 70-79 age group for the race.
In Blacksburg, 15th-ranked VCU beat Virginia Tech 5-2 in a men's Metro Conference tennis match, but the Hokies' No. 1 doubles team of Scott Cuppett and Miki Pusztai scored a big win. Cuppett and Pusztai, ranked 18th in the country, beat No. 17 Fredrik Eliasson and Jonas Elmblad 8-6. Chad Toleafoa won the only singles match for the Hokies.
Virginia Tech, leading the 21-team field at the Florida Southern/ImperiaLakes Golf Classic in Lakeland, Fla., on Friday, had the rug pulled out from under it by Florida State in Saturday's second round. The Seminoles fired a tournament-record 14-under par 274 for a two-day total of 563 and a nine-shot lead after two rounds over second-ranked Wake Forest, host Florida Southern and East Carolina. Tech, which led by one stroke after Friday's first round, slipped to ninth but is only four strokes out of second place. The tournament concludes today.
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Five members of the Virginia men's track and field team are in event finals today at the IC4A championships at Princeton University in Princeton, N.J. Ronde Barber, a Cave Spring High School graduate, qualified for the 55-meter hurdle finals with a time of 7.61 seconds. Also qualifying for the Cavaliers were Gerald Howard (55-meter dash, 200 meters), Mark Hammons (5,000 meters) and Donald Scott (triple jump).
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