Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SUNDAY, April 10, 1994 TAG: 9404100181
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: C-11 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: From staff reports
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
Green had 76 points individually as the Maroons racked up 142 points to capture the team title easily. Marion was second with 91 points and Blacksburg finished third with 86 points.
Green won the high jump, long jump, triple jump and all three sprints - the 100-, 200- and 400-meter dashes.
In the boys' competition, Jason Alexander was a double winner in the distance races to lead George Wythe to the team title with 113 points.
Giles was second with 105 points and Blacksburg took third with 64 points.
Alexander set a school record in the 3,200-meter run with a time of 9 minutes, 50.8 seconds.
In other high school action:
Emily Rakes leaped 5-feet, 6 inches to tie the meet record in the high jump at the Vince Bradford Relays at Liberty University in Lynchburg.
In the boys' competition, Jamie Price and Larry Jones each won an event as the Patrick Henry boys' track team finished fifth. Price ran the 100 in 10.43 seconds and Jones finished the 110 high hurdles in 14.82.
William Fleming's Dominick Millner was first in the long jump at the event, leaping 23 feet, 10 inches. John St. Clair took third in the discus for the Colonels with a throw of 146 feet, 10 inches.
Cave Spring's Jason Dowdy was third in the 1,600-meter run.
In Radford, the Bobcats swept a non-district baseball doubleheader from Graham, winning 3-2 and 12-2. Mark Franklin was 2-for-3 with two RBI in the first game to pace Radford (4-7). Ryan Brittle was 3-for-3 with one RBI, and Mark Franklin was 2-for-2 with three RBI in the second game as Radford won easily.
Foster Ridpath (2-3) was the winning pitcher in both games.
Cave Spring pounded out 19 hits and cruised to a 17-2 non-district baseball victory over E.C. Glass at City Stadium in Lynchburg.
Robey Caldwell (2-3) had 14 strikeouts and was the winning pitcher for the Knights (4-3).
On offense, Doug Kenney was 3-for-5, Robert Kaczmarek was 3-for-4 with a triple and Steve Burtis was 3-for-4 with a single, double and triple. All three drove in two runs each.
E.C. Glass dropped to 3-4.
Whitney Meredith assisted all three of Cave Spring's second-half goals in the Knights' 3-0 win over host North Cross in a girls' non-district soccer game.
Meredith got all of her assists off corner kicks. Allison Beightol scored the first goal, then Tiffany Jackson headed in the other two. Cave Spring is 3-0, while North Cross drops to 0-3-1.
Matthew Duran scored the lone goal 20 minutes into the second half as Martinsville (3-1) defeated North Cross (3-1-1) in a boys' soccer match.
by CNB