ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Wednesday, August 21, 1996 TAG: 9608210056
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: B-4 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: FROM STAFF REPORTS
Johnny Sink and Jason Orlando's 2-over par 74s helped Northside to the team lead after the first round of the Bob McLelland Invitational Classic golf tournament on Tuesday at Westlake Country Club.
Northside, the two-time defending champion, shot a team score of 303, seven strokes better than Franklin County. Cave Spring was third at 319, and William Byrd shot 320. (Complete team scores in Scoreboard).
North Cross' Brandon LaCroix and Cave Spring sophomore Justin Shirley, the Knights' No.4 player, both shot 73 to take medalist honors on the first of two days of play. LaCroix is the runaway leader in the McLelland point standings.
Franklin County was led by Matt Chandler and Chad Young, who each shot 75.
The tournament resumes today at Blue Hills, with players teeing off from 1-3:30 p.m.
In other sports news in the region:
Bob Moyers of New Market won medalist honors by six strokes Tuesday following two days of qualifying for the 46th annual Virginia State Golf Association Seniors championship in Hot Springs.
Moyers shot a 3-under-par 67, birdieing the final four holes of The Homestead's Cascades course, to go with a par-72 he shot Monday over the Lower Cascades course.
Match play begins today with two rounds to reduce the 32-man field to eight players. Two more matches on Thursday will cut the field to the two finalists, who meet for the title Friday morning.
Southwest Virginia golfers qualifying for the low 32 include Floyd's Reggie Clark, Roanokers Charley Turner (157) and Ned Baber (156) and Salem's Don Foster (154) and Robert Oakes (158).
In today's first round of match play, Clark will face Ian Halkett; Turner gets Bill Irwin of Stafford; Oakes will play Moyers and Baber and Foster face each other.
Stan Fischer of Richmond posted a 145, while Sam Wallace of Williamsburg was third at 147. Five-time winner Moss Beecroft of Newport News had 148. Irwin and Jim Kite of Wolftown finished with 150.
Moyers lost to Claude Williamson of Waynesboro 5 and 4 in the 1995 championship.
Chip Sullivan, a teaching pro at Hanging Rock Golf Club, fired a 70 and is in third place after two rounds of the Middle Atlantic PGA Hogan Section Championship in Williamsburg.
Sullivan trails the leaders by one stroke and joined 100 others who made the cut for today's final round.
Glen Miller and Peter Nausedat are tied for first at 140, three strokes under par on the Golden Horseshoe's Gold Course.
Miller fired a 68, one shot off the course record set by Jack Nicklaus in 1967.
Jeff Sprinkel of Blue Hills fired a 75 and is tied for 94th, while Bill Good of Virginia Tech shot a 76 and missed the cut by one stroke.
Sullivan will join Miller and Nausedat in today's grouping on the Green Course.
A club team from Strasbourg, France made 12 of 20 3-point shots Tuesday night and toppled Virginia Tech 99-75 in an exhibition basketball game.
It was the fifth loss in six games for the Hokies, who close out their European trip tonight against ALM Evereux in Paris. Tech returns to the United States on Friday.
Forward Ace Custis led the Hokies with 18 points and eight rebounds. The only other double-figure scorer for Tech was guard Troy Manns, who had 11.
American Eric McCoud, who played at Georgetown, led Strasbourg with 22 points.
Two members of the VMI athletic department coaching staff have resigned.
Head tennis coach Ken Alrutz has taken the men's tennis head coaching position at Miami of Ohio after nine years the helm in Lexington. Nino Altomonte, a soccer assistant for the past two seasons and VMI's head coach from 1981-84, is now the men's soccer assistant at James Madison University.
The Virginia Tech men's soccer team travels to Norfolk this week to face Old Dominion in the Preseason Intercollegiate Soccer Exhibition Charity Match. The annual event held by the Hampton Roads Soccer Council will be played at the ODU Soccer Stadium on Thursday at 7:30 p.m.
Roanoke's K.J. Hippensteel lost to top-seeded David Martin of Tulsa, Okla., 6-3, 6-0 in the second round of the International Hardcourt Championships tennis tournament in College Park, Md.
Virginia had three players make the preseason All-America team selected by Soccer America magazine.
Midfielder Mike Fisher, midfielder Billy Walsh and defender Scott Vermillion represented the Cavaliers on the 11-member squad. Fisher was the 1995 national player of the year.
The Virginia men's squad was ranked No.1 by the magazine and the UVa women were ranked No. 9.
LENGTH: Medium: 94 linesby CNB