ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Monday, November 11, 1996 TAG: 9611120041
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: C-3 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: FROM STAFF REPORTS
Virginia Tech plays its first men's basketball exhibition tonight against a touring Yugoslavian team that has swept its first three games in the United States.
The game begins at 7 in Cassell Coliseum, with general admission seats priced at $5. Student ticket pickup is today at the Coliseum.
Senior forward Ace Custis, Tech's lone returning starter, appears fully recovered from arthroscopic knee surgery a month ago and will play.
In other sports news in the region:
* Carrie Moore, a freshman midfielder from Patrick Henry High School, helped William and Mary's women's soccer team to the Colonial Athletic Association championship on Sunday. The Tribe beat George Mason 2-0 in Fairfax. The game will be shown at 10 tonight on Home Team Sports.
Moore was named to the all-CAA first team Wednesday during the league's awards banquet.
* Freshman center Kim Seaver tallied 18 points and 12 rebounds as the Virginia Tech women's basketball team downed Horizonts-Byelorussia 69-68 in the Hokies' first exhibition game of the season.
Sherry Banks, a senior guard from William Byrd High School, made a layup with :24 left to give the Hokies a 69-66 advantage. Tech had a one-point lead with :07 left and held on when the Byelorussians missed a short jumper at the buzzer.
Banks and junior forward Lynette Nolley (Floyd County High School) each scored 10 points.
* Virginia Tech senior men's soccer co-captain Chris Chladek was named to the Atlantic 10 all-tournament team. Chladek started in all 20 of the Hokies' games, recording one goal and six assists.
* Siggi Eyjolfsson and Chris Putland scored to lift top-seeded UNC-Greensboro to a 2-0 win over Radford and the Big South men's soccer title in Greensboro, N.C.
Three Highlanders made the all-tournament team: Kevin Terne, Lee Morton, and goalie Sacha Drouin, who faced 20 shots and made many spectacular saves.
* Radford's Kelly Riescher was named to the Big South women's soccer all-tournament team.
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