ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Tuesday, November 12, 1996 TAG: 9611120095
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: B-3 EDITION: METRO
TYPE: IN THE REGION
SOURCE: FROM STAFF REPORTS
After an absence of four years, the NASCAR Featherlite Modified Tour will be returning to Martinsville Speedway in 1997.
The Modifieds will run in the Goody's Headache Powder 200 on April 19. The race is the day before the Goody's Headache Powder 500 NASCAR Winston Cup race and will be part of the track's 50th anniversary celebration.
Time trials for the Modifieds will begin at 11 a.m., with the race to follow at 2 p.m. All seats for the Modified race are unreserved and priced at $25, with children 12 and younger accompanied by a paying adult admitted free.
Tickets for all 50th anniversary races at the track may be obtained by calling (540) 956-3151 or by writing: Martinsville Speedway, P.O. Box 3311, Martinsville, Va. 24115.
COLLEGES Tech's Banks hurting for Miami
Virginia Tech cornerback Antonio Banks, who sustained a pulled groin during Saturday night's 35-14 victory over East Carolina, is doubtful for the Hokies' key Big East Football Conference game Saturday at Miami, Hokies coach Frank Beamer said.
Banks, a 5-foot-10, 195-pound senior, pulled up lame late in the second quarter. Freshman Anthony Midget replaced Banks and was beaten for a 74-yard touchdown pass three plays later. Midget played well from that point on, making six tackles, including a sack, and intercepting a pass that thwarted a fourth-quarter drive by the Pirates.
Beamer said the 5-11, 170-pound Midget will get the starting nod against the Hurricanes if Banks can't play.
Banks' loss would be a blow for Tech. The Newport News native ranks fifth on the team in tackles (46) and has four of the Hokies's eight interceptions.
* Chalois Lias, considered by many the top high school girls' basketball prospect in the state, has given an oral commitment to Virginia.
Lias, a 6-1 senior at Menchville High School in Newport News, projects as a swing forward for the Cavaliers. She averaged 17 points, seven blocks and 17 rebounds per game during the 1995-96 season for Menchville, which has lost four games since she began varsity play as a freshman.
Lias, who hopes to pursue a career in medicine, chose UVa over Connecticut and North Carolina. She is a two-time All-Group AAA selection and has been selected as one of the top 15 players in the nation by Street and Smith.
* Washington and Lee has three first-team selections and Roanoke College two on the All-Old Dominion Athletic Conference men's soccer team.
W&L's Jamie Parker and Sam Chase were joined at forward by Roanoke's P.J. McCarthy (Roanoke Catholic). The Generals' Mikel Parker and the Maroons' Shane Greene were chosen as first-team defenders in balloting by the conference's coaches.
Randolph-Macon goalie Mark Cola was named the player of the year, and Eastern Mennonite's Roger Mast was coach of the year. Washington and Lee's Mike Germain and Roanoke's Demis Yanco were second-team midfield choices, and Roanoke's Sam Starkweather and W&L's Garry Hill were honorable-mention selections.
* Host Virginia is the top seed for the ACC men's soccer tournament, which begins Thursday at Klockner Stadium in Charlottesville. The Cavaliers have a bye in the first round and will meet the Duke-Clemson winner at 7 p.m. Friday. The championship game is 3:30 p.m. Sunday.
* Two Virginia Tech men's doubles teams advanced to the semifinals at the Rolex Regional Tennis Championships in Princeton, N.J.
The Hokies' Oliver Mayo and Marek Pfeil (Blacksburg) beat Miami's Wayne Boich and Jorge Carvalho 6-4, 6-4, before falling to Mitty Arnold and Thomas Blake of Harvard 7-6 (7-2), 6-1. The Harvard duo advanced to the final by beating Tech's Andrew Krafft and Mark Tepes 6-1, 6-3.
Mayo also advanced to a singles semifinal before falling to Miami's Mike Russell 6-4, 4-6, 6-2.
GOLF Late run lifts junior to victory
Mike Hyland of Marlton, N.J., birdied two of the final three holes in below-freezing temperatures at The Homestead Resort's Lower Cascades course to win the first event on the International Junior Golf Tour.
The scheduled 36-hole tournament was shortened to 27 holes because of snow. Hyland shot 3-over-par 111 to finish four shots head of runners-up Jason Powell of Acworth, Ga.; Al Gielber of Jackson, N.J.; and Jonathan Rusk of Washington Crossing, Pa.
Ryley Webb of Toronto won the girls' division by seven strokes.
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