ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Monday, March 18, 1996 TAG: 9603180132
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: B-4 EDITION: METRO
TYPE: IN THE REGION
SOURCE: FROM STAFF REPORTS
MEMO: ***CORRECTION***
Published correction ran on March 19, 1996.
Geoffrey McLoud's name was misspelled in the swimming results printed
in Monday's editions and his team affiliation was incorrect. He swims
for the Gators.
Sean Hummel struck out a career-high 10 and freshman catcher Barry Gauch drove in three runs as Virginia Tech knocked off Radford 10-4 in a college baseball game Sunday in Blacksburg.
Hummel (2-2) pitched a complete game and allowed just five hits and walked two. The senior right-hander allowed three of those hits in the third inning when Radford (3-11) scored four runs, three on former Northside standout Kelly Dampeer's homer, to take a 4-1 lead. Hummel then retired 18 of the next 21 batters he faced.
Gauch, who was 3-for-5, hit an RBI double that capped a three-run fourth for the Hokies (7-8) to tie the game and then put Tech ahead with a two-run single in the sixth.
Shane Calaman (0-2) took the loss in relief for Radford.
* Pat Daly went 2-for-3, including a grand slam in the bottom of the eighth inning, to lift Ferrum past Christopher Newport 8-1 in a Dixie Conference game in Ferrum.
Patrick Muncher cranked a two-run homer in the first inning as the Panthers (8-3-1 overall, 5-1) never trailed. Anthony Smith (2-0) picked up the win, going seven innings and giving up just one run on four hits while walking three and striking out five.
Scott Griffith (1-3) took the loss for Christopher Newport (7-12, 0-6).
NCAA sold on Salem as hoops site
The NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Committee announced Saturday it will recommend the City of Salem and the Old Dominion Athletic Conference's contract for the Division III championship be extended through 1998 with an option for 1999.
``We were very pleased with what we saw here in the fall and this weekend,'' said Mike Turner, the committee's chairman. ``We see the capability here of making this tournament bigger and better, and we're going to try to do that in the next two years.''
The original contract was to run through 1997. The committee's recommendation to extend is subject to the approval of the NCAA Executive Committee at its next meeting, and that approval is considered all but certain.
* Jamie Spradlin collected two first-place finishes in the final round of the Virginia State Junior Olympics four-day swimming competition at the Dedmon Center on Sunday.
Spradlin won the girls' 13-14 division 400 individual medley in 4 minutes, 42.64 seconds, and the mile in 17:44.21 to help the Roanoke Gators to a third-place finish out of 38 teams.
Bernetta McGuire and Martha Snead also helped the Gators' cause. McGuire won the girls' 11-12 division 100 freestyle in 55.26 and Snead captured the 500 freestyle in the same division with a time of 5:26.67.
The Gators' Jeffrey McLeod won the boys' 13-14 category 400 IM in 4:22.03 to qualify for the Y Nationals in Orlando, Fla., April 8-12.
Sarah Bova took the girls' 11-12 division 100 backstroke title in 1:01.23 for the only title of the day for Carter Center Aquatics, which finished sixth in the team competition.
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