ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Thursday, December 5, 1996 TAG: 9612050024
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: B-3 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: FROM STAFF AND ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORTS
Chip Sullivan, an assistant pro at Hanging Rock Golf Club, was seven strokes off the pace Wednesday after the first round of the PGA Tour Qualifying Tournament in California.
Sullivan shot a 2-over-par 74 on the 7,105-yard La Purisima Golf Club Course in Lompoc.
Phil Tataurangi, Dan Bateman, Anthony Rodriguez and Brent Geiberger shared the lead. Tataurangi, Bateman and Rodriguez played on the other course in use during the tournament, the 7.068-yard Sandpiper Golf Club course in Goleta. Geiberger played the La Purisima.
The top 40 players and ties in the six-round event earn a 1997 PGA Tour card. COLLEGES VMI has sellout for Carolina
The VMI-North Carolina basketball game Dec.15 in Lexington is sold out, Keydets officials announced Wednesday.
VMI's Cameron Hall, which seats 5,029, never has had a sellout in its 15-year history. The largest basketball crowd at the facility was 4,460 for the building's inaugural game, when the Keydets took on Virginia on Dec.5, 1981.
A limited number of tickets for the 4:30 p.m. game may become available Monday at the Cameron Hall box office if North Carolina returns some of its allotment. If tickets do become available, no phone orders will be accepted. They will be available only in person.
Virginia's Rafael Garcia tied for fourth in the balloting for the Lou Groza award honoring the nation's top kicker in NCAA Division I-A.
Another ACC kicker, North Carolina State's Marc Primanti won the award. Primanti did not miss a single one of his 24 field-goal attempts or 20 extra-point kicks this year. He set an ACC record for consecutive field goals with a string of 27 dating to 1995.
Primanti received 229 points in the voting, followed by San Diego State's Peter Holt with 146 and Nevada's Damon Shea with 130. Garcia and Marty Kent of Louisiana Tech tied for fourth with 103 points each.
Three Virginia Tech student-athletes have been named to the Atlantic 10 Academic All-Conference team for the fall: Michael Cox and Wes Schilling in men's cross country and Rachel Nash in women's soccer. Cox, a junior from Princeton, W.Va., has a 3.27 grade-point average in physical education. Schilling, a sophomore from Oak Ridge, Tenn., has 3.63 GPA in forestry. Nash, a junior from Springfield, carries a 3.85 GPA in political science.
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