Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SUNDAY, September 4, 1994 TAG: 9409070066
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: C-10 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: From staff reports
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
The defending national champion Cavaliers, who had not lost a home season opener since 1965, trailed 3-0 before Damian Silvera scored from four yards out at the 59:32 mark. Nate Friends scored on a header from a corner kick to pull Virginia within a goal in the 86th minute. Friends hit the crossbar with a short header with two minutes to play.
Virginia (0-1) outshot Boston 22-6, but the Terriers scored on their first two shots of the game, both by Ola Olsen, to lead 2-0 at the half. Nick Bone scored on Boston's first shot of the second half to make it 3-0 at the 57-minute mark.
In the first game of the Coca-Cola Classic, St. John's and George Mason played to a 1-1 tie. Virginia plays St. John's (0-0-1) today at 3:30 p.m. and Boston (1-0) plays George Mason (0-0-1) at 1 p.m.
Kean College, the 17th-ranked men's soccer team in Division III, rallied from a two-goal deficit to knock off sixth-ranked Roanoke College 3-2 in the finals of the Domino's Classic at River's Edge. Rich Aftorra put the Maroons (1-1) ahead with two first-half goals, but Kean's Pepe Castillo answered with two goals of his own to tie the score at 2-2 before halftime. Pascall Clerigo scored the game-winner for Kean (2-0), which is located in Union, N.J., at the 48-minute mark.
In the consolation match, Chris Crisson and Jeff Durfresne scored goals to provide all the offense Ferrum needed in a 2-0 victory over Chowan. The Panthers are 1-1; Chowan is 0-2.
VMI defeated Shippensburg 4-1 and Winthrop beat Virginia Tech 2-1 in the VMI Soccer Tournament at Brewbaker Field in Lexington.
VMI (1-0) fell behind 1-0 before freshman Rich Daughtridge scored with 5 minutes left in the first half. Geoff Blum gave VMI the lead with a bicycle kick off a corner from Trey Kirby with 17 seconds left in the half. Daughtridge and Blum added goals in the second half to complete the scoring.
Winthrop (1-0) beat the Hokies on a Andrew Uglehs goal at the 69-minute mark. Tech (0-1) took a 1-0 lead on Brian MacFarlane's goal before the Eagles tied it with Erik Johannisson's header.
VMI plays Winthrop today in the tournament final at 3 p.m. Tech plays Shippensburg (0-1) at 1 p.m.
Radford opened the Spencer Smith era with a 4-0 win over Shepherd College in a men's soccer match at Shepherdstown, W.Va. The Highlanders (1-0) outshot the Rams 10-1 and got two goals from Che Henderson and one each from Ian Spooner and Gerald Lakatos to win the coaching debut for Smith.
In Washington, D.C., Virginia's Dina Padula scored on a breakaway midway through the second half as the 13th-ranked Cavaliers defeated George Washington in the women's soccer season opener for both teams.
Virginia Tech's women's soccer team got goals from Sarah Schwark and Rachel Hash to beat Lehigh 2-1 in the first round of the Lafayette Classic in Easton, Pa. The Hokies (1-0) play St. Peter's College today.
Virginia Tech posted its first volleyball win by beating Texas A&M in the Virginia Tech AllSport Volleyfest. The Hokies (1-2) downed the Aggies (2-1), an NCAA tournament participant a year ago, 15-11, 15-13, 12-15, 7-15, 16-14. Tech's Hilary Love and Jennifer Schmidt were named to the all-tournament team.
Roanoke College's cross country teams dominated a dual-meet with Greensboro College, even though some of the members of the men's team got lost on the unfamiliar 5-kilometer course at Hagan Stone Park in Greensboro.
The Maroons won the women's race 15-50 and the men won 15-45. Three of Roanoke's men took a wrong turn on the course before realizing their mistake and doubling back.
James Maybury, a junior from Virginia Beach, won in 17 minutes, 40 seconds and was followed by teammates Nathan Lang, Steve Crowder, Jason Dick, Will Gibson and Chris Overcash.
Salem's Lynn Schwehr won the women's race in 21:47, followed by fellow Maroons Sarah Wood, Kate Gallagher, Ashley Dorr and Kirsten Wagner.
Radford's women's cross country team finished fourth and the men's team fifth in the Wake Forest 5-Way Meet at Winston-Salem. Radford' best women's finish came from Shannan Wilkey, who completed the 5-kilometer course in 20:28 to finish 15th.
Kevin Knepshield led the men with a 22nd-place finish. Wake Forset swept the team titles.
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