Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, March 8, 1995 TAG: 9503080090
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: B-2 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: FROM STAFF REPORTS
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
No. 8 Charleston Southern (7-19) and No.9 Winthrop (4-22) play at 7 p.m. Third-seeded Radford (12-14) will play No.6 UNC Asheville (10-16) Thursday at 8 p.m. The semifinals are Friday at 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. with the championship game at 7 p.m. Saturday. (Complete pairings in Scoreboard. B4)
The winner receives an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.
Tickets are on sale through the Radford athletic department. A tournament ticket booklet, good for all eight games, is $10. Adult tickets for each individual session are $4 and student tickets for each session are $1. For more information, call 831-5307.
In other sports in the region:
Jay Ashcraft and Brandon Snead paced a 17-hit attack with three hits each as Virginia Commonwealth routed Radford 12-1 in a baseball game at Radford.
Right-hander Michael Henke (2-0) pitched eight innings for the Rams (8-6) and held the Highlanders to just two hits, one of them a solo home run by Radford third baseman Rob McCandless in the fifth inning.
Eric Hungate (0-2) took the loss for the Highlanders (5-6).
Seventh-ranked North Carolina blasted Radford 21-5 in a college lacrosse game in Chapel Hill, N.C. Scott Regina had three of the Highlanders' five goals.
Pitchers John Fulcher and Steve Castrello combined on a four-hitter as George Mason rolled past Virginia Tech 10-2 in a baseball game in Blacksburg.
Fulcher (1-1) started and pitched 62/3 innings to earn the victory. He allowed four hits, struck out seven and walked six. Castrello came on with two outs in the seventh and pitched 21/3 innings of no-hit relief, striking out five.
Ron Preston (0-2) took the loss for Virginia Tech.
Bryant Lee of Roanoke College was chosen to the All-District South Division III basketball team as selected by the National Association of B asketball Coaches.
Lee, a 6-foot-5 senior who averaged 15 points and 10 rebounds this season, finished third in the balloting behind Dan Rush of Bridgewater and Phil Dixon of Shenandoah. Other first-team choices were Kevin Beard of Greensboro and Nate Schwab of Hampden-Sydney.
Tickets for Saturday's Group AA state basketball tournament game between Northside and Christiansburg at Salem High School are $5 and will go on sale for the next three days at Northside.
Tickets will be available through Northside athletic director Ed Deeds or the school secretary.
Ferrum College shot a team score of 613 to finish tied for fifth in the 16-team Greensboro College Exchange tournament at the par-72 Bryan Park Players Course in Greensboro, N.C.
Leading the Panthers was R.J. Weaver, who finished with a 149. He was followed by Ed Alvarez, who shot a final-round 75; Matt Jordan (76); and Aaron Johnson (84).
Jamie Whitley of Western Carolina fired a final-round 74 and concluded with a 143 to win the tournament.
Catawba won the team competition with a 591 and was followed by High Point (596), Western Carolina (597), Greensboro White (605), Ferrum (613), Guilford (613), Lynchburg College (614), Elon JV (615), Radford (619), Greensboro Green (619), Emory (625), Guilford Gray (635), Limestone (641), Emory & Henry (655), King (661), and Averett (699).
Salem's Shaunice Warr, a 5-foot-5 junior guard for the Northern Arizona University women's basketball team, received honorable mention on the All-Big Sky Conference team. Warr was second on the Lumberjacks in scoring (11.2 points per game) and steals (2.3 per game). Her .691 free-throw percentage was ninth best in the Big Sky.
by CNB