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

DATE: MONDAY, May 8, 1995                   TAG: 9505080130
SECTION: SPORTS                    PAGE: B-5   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: FROm STAFF REPORTS
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DOUBLE EAGLE HELPS WIN TECH TOURNEY

Stewart Gillespie recorded a double eagle to help his team win the ninth annual Spring Swing Golf Classic at the Blacksburg Country Club on Sunday.

Gillespie and teammates James Wade, Tom Morris and Virginia Tech president Paul Torgersen won the captain's choice event with a 12-under-par 60. The 120-player tournament, which raises money for the Virginia Tech golf team's scholarship fund, featured teams made up of one Virginia Tech celebrity and three amateurs.

Sunday's tournament raised more than $7,500.

Stewart holed his second shot on the 520-yard, par-5 No.5 for the rare double-eagle.

In other sports in the region:

Bethany Eigel of Christiansburg and Sarah Hendricks of Blacksburg held their own against some stiff Group AAA competition Saturday night at the T.C. Williams Invitational track and field meet in Alexandria.

Eigel finished second in the 3,200 meters with a time of 11 minutes, 3.70 seconds and fourth in the 1,600 in 5:05.83 as she tuned up for Group AA competition. Hendricks, also preparing for the New River District, Region IV and Group AA meets, was fifth in the 1,600 (5:08.37) and the 3,200 (11:09.98).

Tommy Rappold placed in a number of events in the 11- and 12-year-old boys division of the Virginia/Mid-Atlantic All-Star swimming meet during the weekend at the Gloucester City Institute of Technology in Sewell, N.J.

Rappold, competing as a Virginia all-star representing the North Cross Marlins, tied for first in 50-yard butterfly, finished fifth in the 50 backstroke, sixth in the 100 backstroke, seventh in 50 breast stroke, 100 freestyle and 100 breast stroke.

Bettina Altizer of Roanoke set two national records at the American Drug-Free Power Lifting Association championships held in St. Louis, Mo.

Altizer, who competes in the 129-pound weight class, broke her own record in the squat by lifting 446 pounds and in the bench press by benching 253 pounds. Her deadlift of 407 pushed her total to 1,107 which tied the American record that she also owns. Altizer was named best lifter of the meet.

by CNB