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

DATE: WEDNESDAY, May 4, 1994                   TAG: 9405040106
SECTION: SPORTS                    PAGE: B-4   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: From staff reports
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Medium

TECH TOPS VCU 8-4

Brian Fitzgerald (7-3) pitched eight innings, striking out five, and didn't give up a run until the seventh inning as Virginia Tech beat Virginia Commonwealth 8-4 on Tuesday night in a baseball game that didn't count in the Metro Conference standings.

Shortstop Frank Terhune went 3-for-3 with three runs scored, and center fielder Popeye Smith and second baseman Justin Dobson had two hits apiece for the Hokies (27-20).

The Rams are 27-21.

In other sports:

Chip Sullivan of Hanging Rock Golf Club and Mark Fry of Roanoke Country Club tied for third in the Middle Atlantic PGA Southern Chapter Assistants' Championship in Richmond.

Jon Corliss of Hell's Point Golf Club won the event with a two-round total of 142 at Hermitage Country Club. Rob McNamara of Farmington Country Club was one stroke back, followed by Sullivan and Fry at 146.

Chris Gibson (148) of The Waterfront Golf Club tied for eighth, and Jeff Sprinkel (150) of Blue Hills Golf Club shared 14th place.

Other area golfers and their finishes: David Kuykendall (153), Hanging Rock, tied for 17th; Kelly Crovo (163), Water's Edge Golf Club, tied for 41st; Tom Purnell (164), Botetourt Country Club, tied for 47th; and C. Thomas Patterson (170), Roanoke Country Club, tied for 60th.

Steve Ames, Radford's golf coach, has announced the signing of three players: Jason Barba of Virginia Beach, Josh Hayes of Marion and Mark Fitzgerald of Waynesboro.

Barba, from Princess Anne High School, won the Scott Robertson Memorial Tournament in Roanoke in 1992 and has been named a Rolex honorable mention All-American. Hayes tied for seventh at the 1993 Group AA state championship meet. Fitzgerald, from Stuarts Draft High School, placed sixth in the Group A state meet and won the Mid Atlantic Pro Junior Tournament.

Seniors Don Burgess and Tyrone Travis capped their careers with honors at the recent Radford University men's basketball banquet.

Burgess, a 6-foot-6 forward from Harrisonburg, received the Donald N. Dedmon Most Valuable Player Award. Travis, a 6-7 center from Cambridge, Md., won the Doug & Norvell Tate Award for Outstanding Career Contribution.

Other Highlanders honored were: freshman Anthony Walker (Free Throw Shooting Award); junior Damian Ingram (Assists Leader); sophomore Johnny Watkins (Outstanding Defensive Player); senior Dragan Skoko (Student-Athlete Award); and junior Chris Harvey (Hustling Highlander Award).

by CNB