ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Sunday, May 5, 1996 TAG: 9605070006
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: C-9 EDITION: METRO
TYPE: IN THE REGION
SOURCE: FROM STAFF REPORTS
Fishermen are working the night shift with good results in the Cave Spring Optimist Club Fishing Tournament on Smith Mountain Lake.
While walleye fishing traditionally is good at this time of year, bass fishing has been surprisingly good, as well.
A rapala crankbait was the bait of choice for Kevin Poff of Salem, who weighed in a 6-pound, 9-ounce largemouth at 3 a.m. Saturday to take the lead in that division. Poff caught the bass near Hales Ford Bridge.
Kenneth Stewart of Matheny, W.Va., also worked late Saturday, using a zoom worm. He weighed a 4-pound, 4-ounce smallmouth at 12:30 a.m. Stewart caught the smallie in the Blackwater River arm of the lake.
``The last two years, they've caught a lot of walleye at night, but it's unusual to catch the amount of bass they've been catching at night,'' said Mark Raskin of the Cave Spring Optimist Club.
Raskin said another smallmouth came in that would have won the tournament, but it was dead, and the rules state that no dead fish may be weighed.
The leading walleye came in at 4:45 a.m. Saturday and was caught on a crankbait in the Roanoke River arm by Robert Terry III of Roanoke.
In the crappie category, Gary Hall of Rocky Mount used a jig to catch a 2-pound, 12-ounce fish in the Blackwater arm.
Donald Horn of Wirtz took the lead in the catfish category with a 15-pound, 9-ounce whopper caught on live shad in the Blackwater arm.
No muskies have been weighed.
The tournament, which has 735 competitors, concludes today at noon.
BASEBALL W&L ousted in ODAC play
Freshman third baseman Justin Mason went 2-for-2 with four RBI and led Lynchburg to a 13-5 victory over Washington and Lee in the losers' bracket of the Old Dominion Athletic Conference baseball tournament at City Stadium in Lynchburg.
The Generals (16-13) scored the first run in the first inning, but the Hornets (15-15-1) scored four times in the third and six in the fourth to take a 10-1 lead. The loss ended Washington and Lee's season.
* Radford split a Big South Conference doubleheader with Maryland-Baltimore County by taking the second game 9-7 in Baltimore.
The Highlanders (17-27) scored four runs in the top of the sixth and three in the top of the seventh to get the victory. Shane Reed led Radford with three hits and two RBI. Kelly Dampeer (Northside High School) had two hits and scored two runs.
The Retrievers (16-27) took the opener 6-4 by scoring three runs in the bottom of the sixth inning. Reed collected two hits and an RBI.
Tech track teams fare well in invitational
Virginia Tech's track and field teams won eight events at the Atlantic 10 Invitational meet in Philadelphia. The event featured all the conference schools, but was not an official conference meet.
Paula Allan won the discus and shot put with throws of 139 feet, 4 inches and 42-3 1/4, respectively. Katie Ollendick (Blacksburg) set a Tech outdoor record, clearing 5-7 1/4 in the high jump. Meredith Newby won the hammer throw with a heave of 150-1, besting the NCAA provisional qualifying mark by 1 inch. Jennifer Pohlig took first in the 3,000.
Steve Koziol won the hammer throw with a toss of 178-5. John Hawthorne (Cave Spring) finished first in the 10,000-meter run. Mike Abbott took first in the pole vault.
* Ben Nielsen of Roanoke finished second in the juniors division of the Bristol Twin City Classic cycling race.
Wes Wilmer of Roanoke finished third in the masters road race. Both cyclists ride for team Xaloy.
* The New River Strikers edged the Vienna Bulldogs on penalty kicks to advance to the quarterfinal round of the boys' under-13 State Cup soccer tournament.
The score was 5-5 after regulation time and 6-6 after two 10-minute overtimes. The Strikers won on the 10th kick of a shootout.
The Roanoke Star White under-13 team, which is ranked third in the state among under-13 teams, defeated the Richmond Magic 5-1 to also advance to the quarterfinals. Michael Kraemer had two goals to lead the Star.
* Jim Kite and Stan Fischer shot a course-record 64 to take a three-shot lead over Harry Lea and Wright Garrett in the fifth annual Water's Edge Invitational.
Three teams were tied for third with scores of 69 and four teams shot 70 to tie for sixth place.
* Salem's Finn Pincus won the Greenbrier Valley Hospice 10K Run in Lewisburg, W.Va.
Pincus, the Roanoke College track and field coach, ran the course in a time of 36 minutes, 51 seconds. Ginger Kirk of Roanoke finished second overall in the women's division with a time of 47 minutes. Enrique Silberblatt of Roanoke won the 40-44 age group in 40:44.
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