ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Tuesday, May 7, 1996 TAG: 9605070056
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: C-5 EDITION: METRO
TYPE: IN THE REGION
SOURCE: FROM STAFF REPORTS
Three members of the Liberty High School baseball team, including two starters from the Minutemen's Group AA basketball championship team, have been dismissed for disciplinary reasons.
Gregg Reynolds, a shortstop, and reserve J.J. Coles who were starting guards on the boys' basketball team, were dismissed along with outfielder Jay Overstreet for missing a game and practices.
Reynolds was off to a .625 start with the bat and considered a candidate to make All-Group AA. Coles was playing high school baseball for the first time. Overstreet was hitting .335.
Despite the dismissals, Liberty is 9-4 and in second place in the Seminole District.
Washington and Lee's Jeff Stickley was chosen the Old Dominion Athletic Conference baseball coach of the year by his peers.
Stickley guided W&L to its first ODAC tournament appearance since 1991 and its best record since 1935. Emory and Henry senior catcher Jared Beck was voted the conference's player of the year after leading the league in slugging percentage (.887) and home runs (13). His 13 homers and 47 RBI were school records for a season.
W&L's Graig Fantuzzi was chosen first team all-conference as an outfielder, and Matt Ermigiotti made the second team as a pitcher and designated hitter.
Emory and Henry outfielder Andy Dewease, a senior from Vinton, made the first team. He set a school record with 14 doubles and hit .382 for the Wasps. (Complete team in Baseball Scoreboard. C2.)
Jim Kite and Claude Williamson teamed for a 2-under-par 69 and a two-shot lead in the Virginia State Golf Association Senior Four-Ball Championship at Lexington Country Club.
Kite and Williamson had an eagle 3 at the par-5 third hole and three birdies to offset bogeys on Nos.10, 13 and 14.
Stan Fischer and Chuck Shriner are in second place after the first round.
North Cross had four of the top six individual scores and captured the Virginia Independent Conference golf tournament championship held at the 6,123-yard, par-70 Roanoke Country Club.
North Cross finished at 302 to beat second-place Carlisle by eight strokes. Roanoke Valley Christian came in fourth at 357.
Marty Stanley of Carlise fired a 71 to earn medalist honors and finish three shots ahead of Brian Whittaker of North Cross. Roanoke Valley Christian's Joel Nester was third at 75 after beating North Cross' Trey Clower in a playoff. Travis Horak and Brandon LaCroix of North Cross finished fifth and sixth, respectively, after shooting 76 and 77.
Roanoke College has received a bid to the NCAA Division III women's lacrosse tournament.
The Maroons (12-2) will meet Goucher (17-1) in a quarterfinal Saturday on the Gophers' field in Towson, Md. The winner advances to face either Middlebury (Vt.) or Connecticut College on May 18 in Bethlehem, Pa.
Tickets for the University of Virginia men's lacrosse quarterfinal game in the 1996 NCAA Tournament go on sale Wednesday at the Virginia athletic ticket office.
Virginia, the third-seeded team in the field, received a first-round bye and will play the winner of the Hofstra-Harvard first-round game at noon May 19 in the first game of a doubleheader at John Hopkins University in Baltimore, Md. Maryland will play the winner of the Johns Hopkins-Notre Dame first-round game in the second game.
Tickets for the doubleheader are $10 for adults and $8 for youth 12 and under and college students with valid identification. The tickets can be purchased in person at the UVa ticket office in University Hall or by calling (804) 924-8821 or toll free in Virginia at 1-800-542-8821. A limited supply of tickets is available, and Virginia's supply will be on sale until May 15 or until they are all sold.
The third-ranked Virginia women's lacrosse team will entertain sixth-ranked William and Mary in a quarterfinal of the NCAA Tournament at 2 p.m. Saturday at Klockner Stadium in Charlottesville.
Chip Sullivan, the pro at Hanging Rock Golf Club, finished ninth in the Lynx Southern Chapter Assistant Professional Championship in Glen Allen.
Rob McNamara of Farmington Country Club beat Craig Dunn of the Danville Golf Club in a playoff for the title after they tied at 1-under-par 143 in the two-round event at The Dominion Club. Sullivan finished at 150.
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