ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Wednesday, July 10, 1996 TAG: 9607100047
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: B-3 EDITION: METRO
TYPE: IN THE REGION
SOURCE: STAFF REPORTS
Former National League stolen base champ Maury Wills will be one of the players to compete in the annual Old-Timers Game on July 20 at Salem Memorial Baseball Stadium.
Wills, who once held the major league record for stolen bases in a season when he stole 104 with the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1962, will play for a team that will take on a group of media all-stars. The game will be held from 5:30-6:30 p.m., prior to the Salem Avalanche game against the Wilmington Blue Rocks.
Wills, whose single-season steals record was broken by Lou Brock in 1974 (whose record was eclipsed later by Rickey Henderson in 1982), finished his career with 586 stolen bases.
In other news in the region:
* Brandon LaCroix of Roanoke shot a 75 Tuesday to qualify for the final two rounds of the Future Masters golf tournament in Dothan, Ala.
LaCroix was one of 60 golfers out of 220 competitors in the 15-16 age group to advance to Friday and Saturday's final rounds.
Bubba Dickerson of Ponte Vedra, Fla., shot the low round of qualifying, a 5-under-par 66.
The tournament is a Rolex All-America points event and 671 golfers participated in qualifying.
* Three student-athletes from area colleges have been awarded NCAA postgraduate scholarships. VMI's Joey Dubose and Washington and Lee University's Josephine Schaeffer and Graig Fantuzzi each have received $5,000 grants.
Dubose and Schaeffer were track stars while Fantuzzi was an all-Old Dominion Athletic Conference baseball player. Fantuzzi also was W&L's 1996 valedictorian.
The NCAA awards 154 postgraduate scholarships each year. Former VMI point guard Bobby Prince, a native of Blue Ridge, received such a grant in March.
* The Southern Conference has regained its NCAA tournament automatic bid in baseball for 1997.
The NCAA determines which 19 conferences receive automatic bids in baseball by compiling a Rating Percentage Index, or strength of schedule, for each league. The NCAA ranked the Southern Conference 16th among 30 baseball leagues following the 1996 baseball season.
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