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                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: SUNDAY, February 20, 1994                   TAG: 9402210142
SECTION: SPORTS                    PAGE: C-13   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: From staff reports
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Medium


TECH WILL HAVE TO WAIT FOR JACKSON

Jim Jackson's return to the Virginia Tech basketball lineup depends on how his back injury responds to treatment, a school spokesman said Saturday.

Jackson, the Hokies' No. 2 scorer this season, spent Friday and Saturday in a Blacksburg hospital and has been diagnosed with a herniated disk, the school announced.

The injury will be treated with injections of anti-inflammatory medication and painkillers. No surgery is planned.

If the pain subsides, Jackson can play; if it doesn't, he can't. Tech has a week off before its next game, Feb. 26 at Cassell Coliseum against North Carolina-Charlotte.

Jackson, a sophomore forward, was averaging 12.1 points per game, but has scored only 16 in his past four games. He had been playing with back pain for some time, but it intensified this week.

In other college sports in the region:

In Johnson City, Tenn., VMI's Joe Dobson set a Southern Conference record Saturday in the pole vault with a victory at the league championship meet.

Dobson won the event by clearing 16 feet, breaking the old record of 15-9 1/2 set by Keith Peoloquin of VMI in 1992.

The Keydets finished fourth in the team standings. Appalachian State edged Western Carolina 105-98 for the title.

In Radford, Washington and Lee remained in first place through two days of the three-day Atlantic States/Old Dominion Athletic Conference women's swimming championships.

The Generals won all seven events contested Saturday, with the 200-yard medley relay team (1 minute, 54.86 seconds) and the 800 freestyle relay team (8:09.08) setting school and ODAC records in the process. W & L had 569 points to lead second-place Sweet Briar by 237. Hollins (254) was fourth and Radford (140) was eighth.



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