Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SUNDAY, March 26, 1995 TAG: 9503280016
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: D-8 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: FROM STAFF REPORTS
DATELINE: LENGTH: Long
Mike Terhune led off the inning with a single and went to third on Bo Durkac's double. Terhune scored on Kevin Barker's sacrifice fly to cut the lead to 7-5 and Durkac moved to third. Bryan King singled to score Durkac and make the score 7-6.
Josh Herman, another former Byrd player, singled to move King to second. Braxton Bell then hit a fly ball to right that was dropped. King, however, was forced out at third for the second out. John Mader then singled in Herman with the tying run, and Reynolds' homer scored Bell and Mader to give the Hokies the victory.
Reynolds finished with three hits and four RBI.
In other baseball in the region:
Duane Filchner's two-run homer in the bottom of the ninth inning lifted Radford to a 10-8 victory over UNC Greensboro in the first game of a Big South Conference baseball doubleheader in Radford. UNC Greensboro won the second game 5-2.
Radford (11-13 overall, 1-1 conference) led 8-2 in the first game behind Bill Brennan's homer in the fourth and Kelly Dampeer's blast in the fifth. But the Spartans scored four runs in the sixth as Scott Young hit a homer, and added two in the seventh to send it to extra innings.
Filchner followed a leadoff walk to Donnie Fields with his fifth home run of the year.
In the second game, Darrell Tillmon pitched a six-hitter to lead the Spartans, holding Radford scoreless until catcher Jeff Collins hit a two-run homer in the seventh to trim the final margin to 5-2. Former Glenvar High School standout Jason Anderson went the distance for Radford, giving up five runs on six hits.
VMI rebounded from a 6-2 first-game loss to blast West Chester 9-3 in the second game of a baseball doubleheader in Lexington.
Ryan Glynn hit two home runs and had six RBI, which turned out to be all the offense the Keydets (10-15) would need. Glynn's first home run came two at-bats after David Groseclose hit one to spark a three-run third inning. Glynn's second homer was a three-run shot in the fifth that put the game out of reach.
In the first game, West Chester jumped took a 4-0 lead before VMI closed to 4-2 on an RBI single by Glynn and an RBI groundout by Louie Napoleon. VMI would get no closer as West Chester (3-6), an NCAA Division II school, scored two runs in the top of the seventh.
Bates Brown went 5-for-9, but Washington and Lee lost both games of an Old Dominion Athletic Conference baseball doubleheader, 12-11 and 20-18, against Emory and Henry in Emory.
Brown hit three-run homers in the first and second innings to give the Generals (4-13-1, 2-7-1) a 7-1 lead in the first game. The Wasps, though, outscored the Generals 11-4 in the next five innings to win.
The second game saw the Wasps jump take a 14-2 lead through two innings.
A pair of former William Byrd standouts, Gary Wiggins and Andy Deweese, each had three hits and four RBI for the Wasps in the second game.
The Ferrum Panthers were victims of an 11th-inning suicide squeeze, falling to Christopher Newport 17-16 in a wild Dixie Conference baseball game in Newport News.
Ferrum, ranked No.4 in NCAA Division III, led 10-1 before the Captains scored six runs in the bottom of the third. The Panthers retaliated with six runs in the top of the fourth, but it wasn't enough as Christopher Newport scored 10 runs to send the game to extra innings.
David Mitchell led off the bottom of the 11th by striking out, but Ferrum freshman catcher Riley Hodges dropped the ball. Mitchell then stole second and was sacrificed to third by Chris Martin. Jeff Church then laid down a perfect bunt, allowing Mitchell to score the winning run.
Mike Taylor (3-0) pitched the final five innings for Christopher Newport (16-5, 2-1), striking out eight. Kevin Anderson (2-2) took the loss for the Panthers (15-5, 1-2).
Chad France was 3-for-6 for Ferrum, including a solo home run in the fourth inning. Eric Johnson and David Jones each drove in three runs for the Panthers.
UMBC defeats VMI 13-9 in lacrosse
Marlyland-Baltimore County took a 10-1 halftime lead and then held on for a 13-9 victory over VMI in a lacrosse game in Catonsville, Md.
The Retrievers (4-3) won their third consecutive game by scoring eight consecutive goals in the first half, including seven in the second quarter to take a nine-goal lead. Joe Wojociechowski and Matt Shearer each scored two goals in the run.
The Keydets (4-1) outscored the Retrievers 4-1 in the third quarter after John Ripley and Joe Brockman scored in the first two minutes of the period. Ripley scored two more goals to cut the lead to 12-9, but VMI could get no closer the rest of the way.
Freshman Lewis Chittengwa of Virginia had a two-day total of 2-under-par 142, one shot better than Virginia Tech's Brian Sharp in second place, to lead the Furman Intercollegiate golf tournament in Greenville, S.C.
Virginia and Ohio State are tied for the team lead with 586. The Hokies are seven strokes back.
Sharp fired a 3-under-par 69 on Saturday, the tournament's low round. Others scorers for the Hokies were Sean Farrell and Curtis Deal, both with 74s, and Robby Rasmussen with a 79.
In Harrisonburg, Ferrum defeated Eastern Mennonite 11-3 to earn the championship of the Eastern Mennonite Invitational softball tournament. Robin Sutphin, a pitcher for the Panthers, was named to the all-tournament team after going 8-for-15 with nine RBI in the tournament.
nVirginia Tech senior Brett Matthews finished second in the 800-meter run to pace the Virginia Tech men's track team at the Raleigh Relays in Raleigh, N.C.
Matthews covered the distance in a time of 1:52.08 and Marshall Ferguson placed fourth in the 1,500-meter run with a time of 3:59.57, his best performance of the season.
On the women's side, Jennifer Chapman finished seventh in the 1,500-meter run and Jennifer Pohling was right behind her in eighth. Meredith Newby placed eighth in the hammer throw, heaving it 144 feet, 9 inches. Both track teams will travel to Williamsburg next weekend to compete in the Colonial Relays.
by CNB