Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: MONDAY, May 16, 1994 TAG: 9405160109
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: B4 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: From Associated Press and staff reports
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
Tech leads the men's competition with 26 points through two events. Competition was delayed because of rain earlier Sunday, delaying the completion of several field events until late Sunday night.
The Tech women won two events Sunday to move up from sixth place to second. Megan Barnes leaped 18 feet, 8 inches to win the long jump. Teammate Detra Edmunds finished fifth.
Hokie Michelle Smith finished first in the discus with a throw of 129-10. Nancy Gilmore finished third for Tech, and teammate Meredith Newby was fourth.
In other college sports:
In Hattiesburg, Miss., Tommy Davis had three hits, including a go-ahead RBI single, as Southern Mississippi beat Virginia Tech 5-4 in the regular-season finale for the Metro Conference baseball teams.
Southern Miss (34-22 overall, 11-7 conference), second in the final Metro standings, scored single runs in the fourth through seventh innings after trialing 2-1. Davis' hit in the fifth put the Golden Eagles ahead to stay.
Virginia Tech (38-23, 8-9) had its lead after Denny Hedspeth poked RBI singles in the second and fourth innings. The Hokies didn't score again until taking advantage of a Southern Miss error and a Sal Colangelo sacrifice fly to score twice in the ninth.
Virginia Tech, seeded sixth, will play third-seeded South Florida and the Golden Eagles will play Louisville in the first round of the Metro Conference tournament Wednesday at Louisville, Ky.
Jason Kasch's RBI single in the bottom of the ninth inning gave Maryland-Baltimore County a 6-5 victory over Radford and a sweep of the three-game Big South Conference series.
Kasch was 3-for-4 for the Retrievers (23-21, 15-12). UMBC has won five straight and 11 of 14 games.
The Highlanders (26-26, 17-10) finish the season with six straight losses. Travis Toms (6-5) took the loss for Radford in relief.
Radford took a 2-0 lead in the first inning on a two-run home run by Duane Filchner. After UMBC tied the score, the Highlanders went ahead 4-2 in the fourth on RBI hits by Mike Hurt and Donnie Fields. The Retrievers answered by scoring in the fifth, sixth and seventh to lead 5-4. Radford tied the score on Alex Vaxmonsky's RBI double in the eighth before Kasch won the game for UMBC.
In Charlottesville, Florida State (44-18, 14-9) beat Virginia 13-1 to win the weekend series 2-1. The Seminoles had 15 hits, including three triples, and they stole 11 bases, one shy of the ACC record. Steve Nedeau stole four bases. Adam Robinson homered in the bottom of the first for the Cavaliers' run. Virginia (20-33, 2-22) plays Maryland in a play-in game of the ACC tournament Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in Greenville, S.C.
by CNB