Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: MONDAY, November 7, 1994 TAG: 9412270015
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: B5 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
The Celtics, who beat North Cross 28-0 on Saturday to finish the regular season 10-0, remained the top-ranked team in the latest Division I state poll released Sunday. Atlantic Shores Christian (8-3) is ranked fourth.
Fuqua School (8-2), the No.4 Division I team, will play second-ranked Broadwater Academy (10-0) in the other playoff game at a time and place to be determined.
In other news in the region:
Senior Christi Osborne scored 14 second-half points to lead the White team to a come-from-behind 45-35 win in the Virginia Tech women's basketball Maroon-White Game in Cassell Coliseum on Sunday.
Freshman Michelle Hollister scored 13 of her 16 points in the first half as the Maroons took a 24-15 lead. Hollister also had a game-high nine rebounds.
But Osborne, who also finished with 16 points, hit six of her seven shots in the second half and the White team held the Maroons to four second-half field goals.
Tech, the preseason favorite to repeat in the Metro Conference, will host an exhibition against Austria Herzogenburg at 7:45 p.m. on Friday.
Virginia Tech wrestler Manish Patel posted the Hokies' highest finish with a fourth-place showing in the 118-pound division of the West Virginia University Open.
Patel, a redshirt senior who compiled a 9-24-4 overall record in three years at Tech, won six matches during the tournament. He lost to Clevans Robinson of the Northwest Wrestling Club 3-0 in the third-place match.
At Blacksburg, Virginia won dual meets over Virginia Tech in men's (139-84) and women's (130-99) swimming. Sophomore Rune Brath and senior Collins Trimble each won two events for Virginia Tech's men (3-1). The Tech women are 2-2. Virginia won eight of the events in both dual meets.
Virginia Tech's doubles teams of Oliver Mayo and Adam Gottfried (No.2), and Mark Tepes and Chirayu Patel (No.3) each lost in their finals matches in the 1994 Clemson Fall Classic in Clemson, S.C. Both teams lost their championship matches 8-3.
Virginia's women's soccer team (13-4-3) will host George Mason on Wednesday in the first round of the NCAA tournament. Game time has yet to be determined.
by CNB