Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, June 7, 1995 TAG: 9506070092
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: B-3 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: FROM STAFF REPORTS
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
McGuire hit .397 at the plate and struck out 47 as a pitcher for the Terriers this season. McGuire follows former teammates Chris Carr and Kevin Saunders to Radford. Carr, the 1994 Timesland player of the year, and Saunders signed with the Highlanders last year.
In other sports in the region:
Bassett High School has chosen longtime Magna Vista assistant Ken Moran as its new football coach.
Moran succeeds Jim Hall, who resigned this spring for personal reasons. Moran had been an assistant coach under Don Bateman for 13 years.
Moran is a graduate of Bassett who played for the Bengals and Emory & Henry College. He is the seventh head coach in the past eight years at Bassett.
Ferrum College's Jimmy Hamilton is traveling to Tennessee today to participate in the Team USA spring baseball trials.
Hamilton took part in the USA Baseball fall trials in Homestead, Fla., and was one of 40 players selected to attend spring training. The players will play a 35-game schedule throughout the Southeast before the team is pared to 26 members in preparation for the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta.
Dan Keffer of Salem shot a two-round total of 153 to tie for 18th in the Virginia State Golf Association Senior Stroke Play championship at Ford's Colony in Williamsburg. Bob Moyers of New Market shot a two-day total of 141 to win his second title. Claude Williamson of Waynesboro finished second, three strokes back.
Other top-50 local finishers were Salem's Robert Oakes and Gib Wingfield of Roanoke, who tied for 35th at 159, and Roanoke's Bill Jennings who tied for 45th at 161.
by CNB