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

DATE: TUESDAY, November 15, 1994                   TAG: 9411160060
SECTION: SPORTS                    PAGE: C-4   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: FROM STAFF REPORTS
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TECH WOMEN START NIT

Virginia Tech's women's basketball team opens its 1994-95 season tonight when it plays Maryland in the opening round of the Women's National Invitation Tournament at 7:30 p.m. in College Park, Md.

The Hokies went 24-6 in 1993-94, won the Metro Conference tournament championship and made their first-ever NCAA tournament appearance. Maryland is ranked 16th nationally in the Philadelphia Inquirer's preseason poll.

The Hokies will be without starting point guard Lisa Leftwich, who has a stress fracture in her left thigh and may miss up to six weeks. Former Pulaski County standout Terri Garland will start at point, and William Byrd product Sherry Banks will start at shooting guard.

In other sports news in the region:

Virginia begins the quest for its fourth consecutive national championship when it faces Big South Conference champion UNC Greensboro in the first round of the NCAA Division I men's soccer tournament on Sunday at Klockner Stadium.

Bluefield College middle hitter Annette Wilson, a Floyd County native, was named to the Tennessee Virginia Athletics Conference's first-team all-conference volleyball squad. Wilson registered 299 kills and 40 aces.

by CNB