ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Tuesday, April 16, 1996 TAG: 9604160067
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: B-3 EDITION: METRO
TYPE: IN THE REGION
SOURCE: FROM STAFF REPORTS
Monday's scheduled arraignment for Virginia Tech quarterback Jim Druckenmiller was postponed until Thursday, a clerk in Blacksburg General District court said.
Druckenmiller was charged and arrested Saturday for malicious wounding in relation to an investigation into a March 21 fight outside a Blacksburg bar. Former Tech linebacker George DelRicco was arrested last month and charged with assault and battery in connection with the incident.
Druckenmiller, who was released on a $5,000 secured bond, declined comment on the matter Monday.
In other police news:
* A former University of Virginia football player has been charged with assaulting a fellow student on campus.
Charles E. Preston, 20, was arrested Sunday by university police and charged with assault and battery.
The freshman, dropped from the squad earlier this year, also faces a charge of destruction of property after witnesses told police he slammed the other student's head through a car window in the Bryant Hall parking lot.
The other student, identified as Matthew Kase, was released from University of Virginia Hospital after treatment for minor injuries, a hospital spokesman said.
Preston was released on a $1,000 bond and is scheduled to appear in Albemarle County General District Court on May 8.
Preston was dropped from the football team sometime before March 20 after notifying university officials that he intends to transfer to another school, said athletic department spokesman Rich Murray.
ETC. Tech signs 4 basketball players
Virginia Tech announced that four basketball players have signed letters of intent to play for the Hokies next season.
The four are 6-foot-3 point guard Brendon Dunlop from Bronx, N.Y.; 6-8 forward Ross Wheeler of Marietta, Ga.; 6-8 forward Jesus Rodriguez from Toa Baja, Puerto Rico; and 6-7 forward Rolan Roberts of Dumfries.
* Michelle Hollister was named Best Offensive Player at the Virginia Tech women's basketball awards banquet.
Hollister, a sophomore from Yardley, Pa., led Tech in scoring at 17.3 points per game and rebounding at 9.1 per game. Other Hokies receiving awards were Terri Garland (Ed Motley Inspiration Award), Angie Gray (Practice Player of the Year), Cynthia Lee (Sixth Man Award), Sherry Banks and Lisa Witherspoon (Best Defensive Players) and Renee' Maitland (Dr. Richard Bullock Most Improved Player Award).
Witherspoon, Kristin Burke, Joanna Rieder and Katie O'Connor were honored for maintaining a grade point average of 3.0 or higher.
* The Virginia Tech men's golf team, which won the Atlantic 10 Conference tournament, dominated the individual conference awards.
Sean Farrell, Chip Glover, David Havens and Robby Rasmussen all were named to the six-man all-conference team. Tech coach Jay Hardwick was named co-coach of the year along with Dayton's Jim Larkin. Glover captured the rookie of the year award.
* UNC Greensboro captured the Big South tournament women's golf championship with a two-day score of 619 at Myrtle Beach, S.C.
The Spartans easily outdistanced second-place Coastal Carolina by 12 strokes.
Radford finished fifth in the team competition, led by Julie Whitehead, who finished 21st, with a two-day total of 172.
UNC Greensboro won the men's competition by 17 strokes over Winthrop. Radford was sixth and Brian Lipps of the Highlanders finished tied for 10th with a 151 total, nine strokes behind medalist Michael Way of UNC Greensboro.
* Virginia will meet Maryland, ranked No.1 in the country, in the first round of the ACC men's lacrosse tournament Friday night at 8:30 at Klockner Stadium in Charlottesville.
The Cavaliers (8-2 overall, 1-2 ACC) are bidding for their second victory of the season over a No.1 team, having beaten Syracuse in the season opener. Maryland (8-1, 2-1) handed UVa its first loss, 13-11, in College Park, Md.
Regular-season champion North Carolina (9-3, 2-1) will meet defending champion Duke (5-5, 1-2) at 6 p.m. in the first game.
* Patrick Muncher had six hits - including three home runs - and seven RBI as Ferrum swept Shenandoah in a Dixie Conference baseball doubleheader in Winchester.
Luther Headley was 4-for-6 with five RBI in the first game as the Panthers won 22-9. Muncher had two solo homers.
In the second game, Muncher had a two-run homer and five RBI as the Panthers won 12-0.
Ferrum (26-5-1, 9-3 Dixie), is the No.2 seed in the conference tournament beginning Thursday, behind Methodist College.
* The Virginia Tech softball team dropped a non-conference doubleheader to Milligan 10-4 and 10-2 in Blacksburg.
In the first game Tech (13-25) blew a 4-2 lead by allowing eight seventh-inning runs. Melissa Sanderson led the Hokies, going 2-for-3 with two RBI.
In the second game, Milligan (20-11) jumped out to a 7-0 lead and never was threatened.
* Chip Sullivan, the teaching pro at Hanging Rock, fired a 67 to win the Dogwood Pro-Am in Charlottesville.
Sullivan, 31, who also won the tournament in 1994 at the Meadowcreek Golf Club, won by two shots over three people in the par 71 event.
Jimmy Williams, the teaching pro at Cox's driving range in Blacksburg, shot a 71 and finished seventh.
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