ROANOKE TIMES

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

DATE: TUESDAY, August 15, 1995                   TAG: 9508150039
SECTION: SPORTS                    PAGE: B2   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: STAFF REPORT
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Medium


DEANE NOMINATED FOR WOODEN TEAM

Virginia guard Harold Deane is one of 25 preseason candidates for the 1996 John R. Wooden All-American Team and Player of the Year Award.

Deane, a 6-foot-1 junior, averaged 16 points, 4.3 assists and 3.0 rebounds per game last season. He was a second-team All-Atlantic Coast Conference selection

Clark Sisson from Bethesda Country Club in Bethesda, Md., fired a 69 to lead the first round of the Middle Atlantic PGA/Kazim Temple Pro-Am Golf Classic at Hanging Rock Golf Club.

Sisson leads Virginia Tech golf coach Jay Hardwick by one stroke and Jack Snyder of Lake Monticello in Palmyra by two. Mark Fry from Roanoke Country Club, Chip Sullivan of Hanging Rock, and Jimmy Williams of Cox's Golf Range in Blacksburg each fired a 73.

The team of Mark Fry, Ryan Ketron, Basil Fry and Greg Fry was the low team with a net score of 123. The low gross team of Roby Roberson, Lee Shirley, Scott Hunter and Buzzy Vinson fired a 137.

Former Roanoke College basketball player Brian Blaney was named an assistant coach at Miami (Ohio) University.

Blaney, 24, played for the Maroons from 1991-94. Roanoke compiled a 52-19 record in that span, including a 26-2 record and berth in the NCAA Division III tournament in 1994.

A native of Holden, Mass., Blaney, the son of Seton Hall coach George Blaney, was an assistant coach at Hargrave Military Academy in Chatham last season.

Embert ``Buddy'' Farris has been hired as the new girls' basketball coach at Pulaski County High School. Farris follows long-time coach Rod Reedy, who left Pulaski County to take a job as a women's assistant at Radford University.

Farris has been the boys' and girls' basketball coach at Dublin Middle School for 17 years.

Todd Browning, who was coaching at Pulaski County Middle School, has been hired as the Cougars' new head baseball coach, replacing Ray Dunavant. He was the head coach at Princeton, W.Va., for three years.



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