Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, September 1, 1994 TAG: 9409010070
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: B2 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: FROM STAFF REPORTS
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
Stewart said Wednesday that Lester, a 6-foot-3, 220-pound native of Hinesville, Ga., will share time Saturday with senior Spike Johnson, who started most of VMI's games last season.
``[Lester] has done a good job grasping the offense and has made some big plays,'' Stewart said. ``Not that the others haven't made plays, Al has just been more consistent.''
In other sports in the region:
Virginia Tech quarterback Maurice DeShazo is one of 12 candidates for the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award, presented each year to the nation's top quarterback by the Kentucky Chapter of the National Football Foundation and Hall of Fame. The winner will be announced Dec.1.
Angie Carrington Murphy, the outstanding female athlete at Washington and Lee during the 1993-94 school year, is the nominee from Virginia for the NCAA Woman of the Year Award.
Murphy, from Charlottesville, was a four-year letterman and two-year captain of the women's soccer and lacrosse teams at W&L and was chosen as an All-American in lacrosse as a senior.
Murphy received the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Medallion, which is the highest honor awarded by the W&L faculty and was named Old Dominion Athletic Conference female scholar-athlete of the year. She is the wife of four-time All-ODAC men's soccer player Reid Murphy and daughter of one-time Virginia football captain Ed Carrington.
Nate Friends scored three goals as Virginia raced to a four-goal halftime lead and defeated San Francisco 6-1 in a nationally televised exhibition soccer match in Davidson, N.C. Friends scored five goals in two NCAA Tournament games at Davidson last year.
by CNB