ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Friday, August 16, 1996 TAG: 9608160053
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: B-10 EDITION: METRO
TYPE: IN THE REGION
SOURCE: FROM STAFF REPORTS
Virginia basketball player Harold Deane, convicted Aug. 5 on charges of trespassing and resisting arrest, is appealing his sentence.
The Virginia Beach law office of Shuttleworth, Ruloff & Giordano informed the media of the appeal in a news release distributed Thursday.
Deane, arrested April 13 at a private party, received 30-day jail sentences for both charges that were suspended pending two years' good behavior.
``He should never have been convicted,'' attorneys Thomas Shuttleworth and Lawrence Woodward said in the news release. ``When the evidence is presented to the jury, it will show that Mr. Deane was invited to a party and had a VIP pass to attend the party.
``After attending the party, he was asked by the sponsors of the party to stay. While awaiting to re-enter the party, Mr. Deane was grabbed from behind, handcuffed and arrested. ... There was absolutely no basis for the charges that Mr. Deane trespassed or resisted the police in any way.''
In other sports news in the region:
* Billy King, the pro at Roanoke's Blue Hills Golf Club, shot 1-over-par 73 to finish fourth Thursday at the Middle Atlantic PGA Senior and Quarter Century Championship in Ijamsville, Md.
First-round leader Bruce Lehnhard carded a 69 to finish at 5-under 139 in the event, which also serves as a qualifier for the Senior Club Professional Championship on Oct.17-20 in West Palm Beach, Fla. Mike McGinnis was two strokes behind Lehnhard at Holly Hills Country Club. Frank Herrelko (71-73-144) was third, followed by King (145) and Bill Heron (146). All five qualified for the Senior Club Pro Championship.
* The Virginias junior golf team finally reached the summit in its 14-year matchup of the Virginias-Carolinas Match. Running on the middle of the roster strength of Staunton's Michael Gooden and Richmond's Ben Keefer, the Virginias team won the title 27 1/2-20 1/2 at the Country Club of North Carolina in Pinehurst.
It was the Virginia team's first victory in the Carolinas.
* Virginia Tech and Cabrini (Pa.) College are the two newest members of the Eastern College Athletic Conference. The ECAC is the nation's largest athletic conference with 287 member colleges from Maine to North Carolina. It manages championships, organizes officiating assignments and coordinates publicity services, legislative services and marketing departments for its members.
* Washington and Lee has added several assistants to its athletic department.
Joining the staff as the volleyball and women's basketball assistant is Charleata Beale, a 1995 graduate and former women's basketball assistant at Virginia. Craig Appleby, a former soccer player and 1994 graduate of UNC-Charlotte, will assist the men's soccer team.
Liz Graham comes to W&L as the women's soccer and lacrosse assistant from Cornell, where she was a starting goalkeeper for the lacrosse team. Graham spent last season as an assistant at Vassar. Lars Tiffany, a 1990 graduate of Brown who spent 1994-95 as co-head coach for women's lacrosse and assistant for men's lacrosse at Le Moyne (N.Y.), will assist Generals men's lacrosse coach Jim Stagnitta.
W&L has a new assistant sports information director, Bryan Snyder, a 1995 graduate of the school.
* Roanoke College has hired Katrina Silva as head field hockey and women's lacrosse coach.
Silva spent last year as the assistant women's lacrosse coach at Virginia Tech. The 1993 Towson State graduate replaces Tracy Coyne, who left Roanoke to become head women's lacrosse coach at Notre Dame.
``I'm excited because we've found someone who has prepared herself well for this position and has a personality that will be a great fit with the Roanoke College family,'' said Scott Allison, the Maroons' athletic director.
* Two former Timesland stars are part of Roanoke College's first softball recruiting class. Among the players the first-year program will build around are Joy Gauthier of Covington and Nikki Potter of Rocky Mount.
Gauthier, an All-Blue Ridge District selection for the past two seasons at Alleghany High School, is an outfielder and pitcher. Potter, a strong defensive catcher with offensive skills to match, was a second-team All-Timesland and first-team All-Roanoke Valley District selection this past season at Franklin County High School.
Also part of the Maroons' class is two-sport star Danielle Cyr of Manchester, Conn. An all-conference pitcher at Manchester High School, she led her league in strikeouts and ERA in 1996. Cyr also will play basketball for the Maroons.
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