
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, April 19, 1994                   TAG: 9404190082
SECTION: SPORTS                    PAGE: C-5   EDITION: METRO 
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TOM PERRIN TO HIT RECRUITING ROAD FOR UVA

Virginia received approval Monday to send basketball assistant coach Tom Perrin on the road for the remainder of the recruiting contact period that ends Friday. Perrin, a part-time and restricted earnings coach for the past 12 years, is almost certain to get one of the two full-time assistant jobs that became available when Dennis Wolff and Brian Ellerbe were named Division I head coaches.

Bowling Green coach Jim Larranaga, who has state ties as a former assistant at Virginia, has surfaced as a candidate for the Old Dominion basketball coaching vacancy.

Old Dominion athletic director Jim Jarrett called Bowling Green athletic director Jack Gregory late Friday afternoon for permission to talk to Larranaga.

Larranaga had been mentioned as a candidate when the ODU position opened following Oliver Purnell's departure to Dayton on April 8. But Larranaga wasn't contacted about the position until late last week.

Neither Larranaga, nor Jarrett could be reached for comment.

Larranaga, 44, has been the head coach at Bowling Green for eight years. His teams have hovered around the .500 mark for most of his tenure and his record at Bowling Green is 118-110.

Larranaga began his coaching career as an assistant at Davidson from 1971-76, starting under Terry Holland. He spent one year as a player-coach in Belgium, then returned to the United States as the head coach at American International in Springfield, Mass., for two years, where his teams went 28-25. He then caught on as an assistant at Virginia under Holland from 1979-86 before being named the head coach at Bowling Green in March of '86.

Pulaski graduate Cindy Martin received the Academic Award for the William and Mary women's basketball team's highest grade point average for the second straight year. She was the first post player off the bench before being hampered by illness and injury midway through the season.

Cherry Park in Rock Hill, South Carolina, will be the site of the 1994 Big South double-elimination softball tournament to be held Thursday through Saturday. Campbell (38-14, 12-2 Big South) is the top-seeded team. Radford (10-30, 3-9), the No. 8 seed, will face Liberty (8-31, 1-11), the No. 9 seed, in the first game of the tournament Thursday at 1 p.m.

A 1993 Chevrolet Lumina NASCAR Winston Cup show car will be on display Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Pilot Oil on Williamson Road in Roanoke.

by CNB