Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, February 18, 1995 TAG: 9502220014
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: C-4 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: FROM ASSOCIATED PRESS AND STAFF REPORTS
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
Barnes practiced with the No.16 Cavaliers on Friday, the school said.
Barnes was suspended before Wednesday's game with Duke. Virginia, 17-6 and in a second-place tie in the Atlantic Coast Conference with Maryland behind the league-leading Tar Heels, won that game 64-58.
In other college basketball news:
Tickets for the 1996 NCAA Division I women's basketball Final Four, to be played at the Charlotte Coliseum, are on sale. Tickets for the March 29 semifinals and March 31 national championship game are priced at $45, with a $1 handling fee.
Ticket purchases and information are available through the coliseum box office by calling 1-800-800-0460. The coliseum will seat 22,961 for the event. A sellout would make it the largest Final Four attendance in women's basketball history.
The first Old Dominion Athletic Conference women's basketball banquet will be held Wednesday at the Salem Civic Center's community room at 7 p.m. Sybil Todd, associate dean of students at the University of Virginia, will be the featured speaker.
The All-ODAC women's team and coach and player of the year awards will be presented. Tickets are $10, and may be reserved by phoning the ODAC's Salem office at 387-9073.
Friday's games
Virginia Tech 81, VCU 63: In Blacksburg, Jenny Root scored 19 points and the Hokies went on a 10-0 run midway through the first half to pull away en route to their 18th consecutive Metro Conference women's victory at Cassell Coliseum. Virginia Tech has won 35 of its last 36 at home.
Tech (18-6, 8-2 Metro) trailed 19-18 before a Root layup sparked the run that gave the Hokies a 28-19 lead. Tech shot 59.4 percent in the first half and led 42-28 at halftime.
Virginia Commonwealth (16-6, 4-5) never got closer than nine points in the second half.
Christi Osborne added 15 points and Stephanie Carter 12 for the Hokies. Svetlana Pankratova led the Rams with 19 points, all in the first half.
Radford 78, Charleston Southern 50: In Radford, freshman Rebecca McNeil scored a career-high 21 points, 14 in the second half, to lead the Highlanders to the Big South Conference women's victory over Charleston Southern.
Nicole Gardiner added 15 points, Jenny Goode 12 and Dede Logemann 10 for Radford (10-12, 8-4), which opened the second half with a 10-3 run to take a 45-33 lead. Charleston Southern (6-15, 4-8) never got closer than 11 points after that.
The Buccaneers, who shot 30 percent (19-of-63), were led by Chrissy Kelly's 26 points, 20 in the first half.
Ferrum 77, Shenandoah 58: In Ferrum, Glossary Smith had 21 points and 16 rebounds, and Tamiko Martin scored 10 points and grabbed 20 rebounds as the Panthers pulled away in the second half for a Dixie Conference victory.
Kia Williams added 18 points and Marlo Jamison 15 for Ferrum (15-8, 9-3). Steph Rhodes led Shenandoah (11-12, 7-4) with 20 points.
Men
Ferrum 113, Shenandoah 101: In Ferrum, the Panthers clinched at least a tie in the Dixie Conference title behind John Breedlove's 32-point, 15-rebound performance.
Ferrum (12-12, 8-1) would win the title if Greensboro loses to North Carolina Wesleyan this weekend. The Panthers were helped by Greensboro's 99-86 loss to Christopher Newport on Friday. A title would be Ferrum's second straight and third in four years.
Marcus Toney and Kevin Keatts each scored 16 points, Albert Hobbs 13 and Dante Travis 11 for the Panthers, who trailed 40-38 in the first half before ending the first half with a 16-3 run. Ferrum's lead was cut to 80-77 in the second half, but the Panthers pulled away and hit nine of 12 free throws down the stretch.
Shenandoah (13-10, 6-5) got all but 22 points from three players - Al White (32), Phil Dixon (24) and Larry Tharpe (23).
by CNB