Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SUNDAY, July 17, 1994 TAG: 9408100027
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: C10 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Bob Teitlebaum
DATELINE: LENGTH: Long
The Highlanders won the Central Fidelity Cup with a fast finish in the spring, beating out Powell Valley. Glenvar won state championships in baseball and boys' tennis, while the softball team scored points as a state semifinalist.
The Highlanders finished with 210 points to 165 for Powell Valley. George Wythe (155) was third and Giles (150) was fourth as Timesland schools dominated.
``We're just real pleased,'' said Roger Martin, Glenvar's athletic director. ``It's the first time for the Roanoke Valley and it's very meaningful. It shows that we have a total team effort and not just one sport.''
Glenvar has an excellent chance to repeat. Though the Highlanders lost a number of key baseball players, the softball, boys' tennis and state championship golf team have legitimate shots at state crowns next season.
With distance runner Trish Nervo a threat to win two events in the Group A girls' track and field meet, the junior could score enough points to help Glenvar finish in the top eight and give the school points toward the Central Fidelity Cup.
Blacksburg, the 1992-93 champion in Group AA, lost the Cup to Tabb. The Indians tied for second with York. Blacksburg and York had 222.50 points, 20 fewer than Tabb. Even if the Indians had repeated as Group AA boys' soccer champs, they wouldn't have repeated in the Cup race.
William Byrd was Timesland's No.2 Group AA program, finishing 10th. No Roanoke Valley District school finished in the top 10 among Group AAA programs. Patrick Henry, tied for 32nd, was the top RVD school.
SOCCER ADDED: The Virginia High School Coaches' Association is adding boys' and girls' soccer to its list of East-West all-star games next year. That brings the total to nine games and makes for a very busy schedule.
For now, the soccer games will be played as a doubleheader on Thursday afternoon, the day of the football game. If the coaches' clinic is expanded to five days and runs through Friday, the soccer games likely will be held on another night.
It's also likely the clinic and all-star games will return to Hampton in 1995. No formal bid has been entered from any other area, though Lynchburg reportedly wants the games back. The VHSCA will meet next month to make a final decision, but games director Mike Smith has made it known that he wants everything back in Hampton, where he coaches Hampton High School's football program.
While some coaches might grumble about the travel distance to Hampton from this part of the state, the all-star participants are having a ball because there are things to do there other than practice.
HALL OF FAME: Former Timesland football coaches Pete Brewbaker of Lexington and the late Francis ``Boodie'' Albert of Covington are in the Virginia High School Hall of Fame's class of 1994.
They are the only Timesland people who will be inducted, along with Earl Gillespie, who just retired as the Virginia High School League's executive director, and the late Charlie Karmosky, the former sports editor of the Newport News Daily Press, whose paper set the standard along with the Roanoke World-News for prep coverage in this state during the 1950s, '60s and early '70s.
In 40 years of coaching football, Brewbaker won 222 games, lost 94 and tied eight. His golf teams also won three state championships and 90 percent of their matches.
Albert's football teams won 155 games in 33 years, 32 of them at Covington. He coached five sports at one time in his busy schedule. He died in 1974.
ON THE BENCH: Rick Crotts, who resigned as the Cave Spring boys' basketball coach during the spring, won't be idle next season. Crotts will be an assistant at Glenvar under Art Lawrence.
Crotts, who did not resign his teaching job in the Roanoke County system, will continue to work at Cave Spring Junior High School. Crotts attended Glenvar in the 1970s.
SALEM TOURNAMENT: There will be new blood in the Salem Christmas basketball tournament this year as Parry McCluer and Rockbridge County join the field in place of Laurel Park and A.C. Flora (S.C.).
Parry McCluer finished second in the 1994 Group A tournament and has a solid nucleus back from that team. Rockbridge County, coached by former William Fleming and VMI great Damon Williams, joins host Salem, William Byrd and Northside as Blue Ridge District rivals in the eight-team field.
That means those four teams will be paired against the other four in the first round to avoid games against regular-season opponents where possible. The other three entries are Fieldale-Collinsville, Cave Spring and Franklin County.
MOORE OK: Lord Botetourt's Ashley Moore, who suffered a dislocated shoulder Monday while playing for the West in the girls' all-star basketball game, will have to wear a sling for a while.
Moore, an All-Timesland girls' basketball player and winner of the B'nai B'rith athletic and achievement award, says she'll be ready for the 1994-95 basketball season when practice opens in November at Campbell University. Doctors expect Moore to be fully recovered and don't believe the injury will bother her in the future.
by CNB