Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: TUESDAY, June 6, 1995 TAG: 9506060143
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: B3 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: FROM STAFF REPORTS
DATELINE: LENGTH: Short
Blacksburg travels to Western Albemarle at 7 p.m. Wednesday for the Group AA boys' soccer title game. The Indians won state titles in 1989 and 1993, and last year they were eliminated in a semifinal.
Unbeaten William Byrd plays host to Virginia High at 5 p.m. today in the first round of the Group AA softball tournament. If the Terriers win, they will face the winner of the Rustburg-Richlands matchup at a site to be determined. That game likely would be played Friday.
Floyd County travels to St.Paul for a first-round game at 4:30 p.m. today in the Group A softball tournament. If the Buffaloes win, they will face the winner of the Castlewood-Honaker game, probably Friday at a site to be determined.
This is the first trip to the state softball tournament for Byrd or Floyd County.
In other sports news in the region:
Finn Pincus has been elevated from part-time to full-time status as the men's and women's cross country/track and field coach at Roanoke College. Pincus has coached the Maroons' cross country and track teams since 1991 and was the Old Dominion Athletic Conference's coach of the year for women's cross country in 1993.
Wes Durham, the former Radford University basketball play-by-play announcer, has been hired by Sports Radio 680 of Atlanta to be the voice of Georgia Tech football, basketball and baseball. Durham, 29, has worked in a similar capacity for Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., the past three years.
by CNB