ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Tuesday, October 1, 1996 TAG: 9610020007
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: B-2 EDITION: METRO
TYPE: IN THE REGION
SOURCE: FROM STAFF REPORTS
The second visit of the Merrill Lynch Senior PGA Tour Shootout to The Homestead is today on the famed Cascades course.
Ten Senior Tour players - including nine of the top 11 money winners in 1996 - will play in the nine-hole shootout, in which one golfer is eliminated on each hole at the Hot Springs resort.
There is no admission charge for the public, although a $10 parking fee per vehicle, and accompanying shuttle service, is required. The Shootout begins at 11 a.m.
The $500,000 event is the championship of the Merrill Lynch Shootout series played throughout the year. Dave Stockton, who returns to the field, is the defending champion for the $130,000 first prize.
Other players in the field are top money winner Hale Irwin, Hot Springs' own J.C. Snead, Isao Aoki, Bob Murphy, Jim Colbert, John Bland, Walter Morgan, Jay Sigel and Dale Douglass, who leads the money list for the year-long weekly Shootout series.
The Shootout will be taped by ESPN for a two-hour show on Christmas Day, at 4 p.m.
In other sports news in the region:
*Washington and Lee's Berry Blankinship and Ericka Shapard teamed to defeat Kristen Erickson and Leah Morris of Mary Washington 6-2, 6-1 in the doubles final at the Rolex Division III Southeast Intercollegiate Women's Tennis Championships in Fredericksburg on Monday. As a result, they advanced to the national championships in Memphis, Tenn., on Oct.24-27.
*Radford's women's soccer team shut out Liberty 6-0 in a Big South Conference matchup in Lynchburg. Kelly Moran and Amanda Lebo each scored two goals for the Highlanders. The Flames had five shots in the game.
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