ROANOKE TIMES  
                      Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times

DATE: Thursday, June 27, 1996                TAG: 9606270040
SECTION: SPORTS                   PAGE: B-5  EDITION: METRO  
                                             TYPE: IN THE REGION
SOURCE: FROM STAFF REPORTS
MEMO: ***CORRECTION***
      Published correction ran on June 28, 1996.
         A Roanoke golfer competing in the VSGA State Junior Match Play 
      Championship was identified incorrectly in Thursday's sports section. 
      Mike Damiano advanced to Thursday's quarterfinal round in Richmond.

RIVERDAWGS SHOT DOWN IN SHOOTOUT

Neither team would budge, but rules are rules.

So after a shootout in which the Roanoke RiverDawgs scored one goal, the Richmond Kickers scored twofor a victory in a United Systems of Independent Soccer Leagues matchup in Richmond on Wednesday night.

``It was a good one for confidence,'' said Roanoke coach Ed McMichael.

Because the Kickers are a Select League team, the RiverDawgs sustained their 5-2 record and first-place standing in the USISL Premier League.

McMichael credited goalkeeper Aaron Ewert with keeping the RiverDawgs in the game. ``He had a tremendous game,'' said McMichael. ``He made 19 saves, some from point-blank range.''

Roanoke broke to a 1-0 lead when Patrick McSorley took an assist from Jeff Knittel and scored at the 12-minute mark of the first half. Richmond tied it at 1 with a goal by Leigh Cowlishaw at 21:00. It remained that way through regulation and a sudden-death period.

The RiverDawgs return to action Friday in Jackson (Miss.).

In other sports in the region:

Brian Damiano, the only Roanoker to advance out of qualifying, won two matches and advanced to today's quarterfinals of the VSGA State Junior Match Play Championship in Richmond.

Damiano defeated Jimmy Delp of Fredericksburg 2 and 1 in the first round before dispatching Eric Hooke of Monterey 7 and 5 in the afternoon round on the Country Club of Virginia's Westhampton course.

Damiano will face Midlothian's Joe Privitera in this morning's quarterfinals. Privitera, a semfinalist in 1995, knocked off defending champion Matt Paulson of Virginia Beach 1-up in the first round.

Qualifying medalist Cameron Yancey, Andy Dofflemeyer, Andrew Wymer, Jason Schools, Ben Keefer and Stephen Marino were the other six players who advanced to the quarters.

Damiano was the only Southwest Virginian to advance. Martinsville's Marty Stanley and Lexington's Kevin O'Connell each joined Hooke as second-round losers. Martinsville's Aaron Kovacs, Bedford's Lee Fisher and the Lexington duo of Eric Reynolds and George Pickral all were first-round victims.

Salem's Dot Bolling is tied for fourth place at the halfway point of the Virginia Women's Stroke Play Championship at the Country Club of Fairfax.

Bolling, recent winner of the Roanoke Valley Golf Hall of Fame women's championship, opened with a 6-over-par 79. She is tied with a fivesome that includes former Roanoker Ann Patrick.

Kimbra Patterson of Fort Belvoir leads the 96-player field after an opening-round 76. Ellen McGowan, the women's golf coach at William and Mary, and collegian Karla Roberson are tied for second at 77.

The tournament, reduced to 36 holes after a violent storm wiped out Tuesday's first round, concludes today.

Billy King, the longtime head professional at Roanoke's Blue Hills Golf Club, came up one shot short in his attempt to qualify for his third U.S. Senior Open. King fired a 1-over-par 73 at Richmond's Hermitage Country Club to finish in a tie for second behind Stan Fischer and Sam Wallace, both of whom shot 72. Fischer outlasted Wallace on the fifth hole of a playoff to capture the sole available Open berth.

Paul Wheeler and Jack Turner have been named as assistant football coaches at Pulaski County High School for the coming season.

Wheeler, a former Timesland Coach of the Year at George Wythe (1983), has been the head coach at Virginia High and Rustburg, where he won two Group AA Division 3 football state titles.

Wheeler played for Pulaski County coach Joel Hicks in high school. He was out of coaching this past year. He'll coach the Cougars' offensive line.

Turner was an All-Timesland defensive lineman at Pulaski County and was an assistant football coach at Franklin County this past year. He played football at Ferrum College. He'll coach linebackers and the offensive line.

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