Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, June 17, 1995 TAG: 9506200034
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: B-5 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: FROM STAFF REPORTS
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
Moore, a senior at Patrick Henry High School, was the Timesland Player of the Year as selected by the Roanoke Times & World-News and has been a member of the Virginia Youth Soccer Association state team for the past four years.
In other sports news in the region:
Lisha Osborne and Gary Huff, both of Salem, were awarded $1,000 scholarships by Martinsville Speedway for their work at the speedway's infield care center on race weekend.
Osborne and Huff are paramedic students at the College of Health Sciences. The scholarships are part of a program that allows eight students and four instructors from the college to work in the speedway's infield care center.
The scholarships will go toward the Emergency Health Sciences-Paramedic Associate Degree program. Both Osborne and Huff made dean's list during the spring semester.
James Madison University will be ranked eighth in the nation in the Division I-AA football poll by College Sports magazine, when the publication's preseason issue hits the newsstands Aug.1. The Dukes, 10-3 last season, are the highest-ranked Yankee Conference team in the poll, which is headed by defending NCAA Division I-AA champion Youngstown State. Southern Conference power Marshall is third, behind Boise State. McNeese State is a close fourth, followed by Eastern Kentucky and Northern Iowa, in a fifth-place tie.
Galax High School has named Kim Gillespie its new football coach, succeeding Temple Kessinger, who retired from that position and as athletic director earlier this spring.
Gillespie was an assistant at Carroll County, where he attended school and played football. He also played running back at Ferrum, when it was a junior college, and finished his career at the University of Richmond. Ray Besaul, the former boys' basketball coach at Galax and currently an assistant principal, will be the school's athletic director.
Mark Fry, an assistant professional at Roanoke Country Club, shot a 2-under 70 to capture the Cypress Point Pro-Am in Virginia Beach. Fry, who won $818, beat a field of 32 pros by two shots.
In Hot Springs, James Driscoll of Chestnut Hill, Mass., advanced to the semifinals of the 78th Western Junior golf championship with a 4-and-3 afternoon triumph over Laird Sparks of Nacogdoches, Texas. He won four consecutive holes with two birdies and two pars.
Driscoll beat Kristopher Wells of Denver, Penn., 2 and 1 in the morning round at The Homestead's Cascades course.
Joining Driscoll with two victories were Thomas Parker of Laurinburg, N.C., Charlie Woerner of Los Altos, Calif., and Frank Genzer of Tulsa, Okla.
Woerner eliminated 1994 medalist Mark Catalano by 4 and 3 in the morning round. In today's semifinals, Woerner meets Driscoll and Parker faces Genzer. The survivors play for the championship in the afternoon.
NRVS honors fans tonight
Fan Appreciation Night and Legends Cars will share the spotlight with the Late Model Stock Cars in the Shelor Chevrolet 200 tonight at New River Valley Speedway.
It is also Gatorade Night and winning drivers in the five divisions will receive special gifts from Gatorade.
Timothy Peters of Providence, N.C., the 14-year-old driver who won the first Legends race of the season, returns seeking his second straight victory. A full field of 32 cars is expected. The small replicas of the old Modified cars will battle for 25 laps.
Fans will be allowed onto the track prior to racing to meet and photograph their favorite drivers. All cars will be lined up on the front stretch before pre-race ceremonies begin. This is the first of two fan appreciation dates.
Dodge driver Ronnie Thomas of Christiansburg will be going for his second straight Late Model Stock win in a 100-lap event. He snapped Michael Ritch's two-win streak last weekend.
Also on the schedule are 35 laps for the Limited Sportsman, 25 laps for the Mini Stock and 25 for the Pure Stocks.
Today marks the last time outstanding rain checks may be used. Rain checks for the Mini Stock drivers and their crews will be honored since a heavy fog forced postponement of their race last week, said promoter Ronnie Snoddy.
Gates open at 1:30 p.m., with practice at 3:30. Qualifying begins at 6 and the first green flag falls at 8. Admission is $10 for adults and $1 for children 12 and under.
Sunday, WKA Kart racing returns to the speedway with gates opening at 10 a.m. Practice sessions begin at noon with racing to start immediately after the last practice. There is no charge for admittance to the grandstands.
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