ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Wednesday, December 18, 1996 TAG: 9612180036
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: B-3 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: FROM STAFF REPORTS
Four teams ranked among USA Today's top 25 boys' high school basketball teams will play in the Hill City Shootout on Feb.22 at Liberty University's Vines Center in Lynchburg.
Third-ranked Mount Zion Christian of Durham, N.C., is the highest-ranked team in a field that includes No.6 St.John's at Prospect Hall of Frederick, Md., No.17 St. Frances of Baltimore and No.25 Oak Hill Academy of Mouth of Wilson.
The one-day event begins with St. John's meeting Greensboro (N.C.) Day School at 1:30 p.m., followed by Mount Zion against St.Raymonds of the Bronx, N.Y., at 3:30 p.m., Chesapeake's Atlantic Shores Christian against Riverdale Baptist of Upper Marlboro, Md., at 5:30 p.m. and St. Frances-Oak Hill in the finale at 7:30 p.m.
Roanoke's Virginia Amateur Sports, Inc. and Central Virginia AAU are the event's organizers.
``These eight teams feature some of the most highly sought-after high school players in the nation,'' said Pete Lampman, the VAS president. ``This could possibly be the best one-day high school basketball event of the year.''
For ticket information, call VAS at 343-0987 or Central Virginia AAU at (804) 376-5641.
In other sports news in the region:
* Virginia's Tiki Barber is one of six repeat selections on the GTE Academic All-America football first team.
Barber, a senior from Cave Spring High School, has a 3.361 grade-point average in finance. He also is a member of the College Football Association Scholar-Athlete team for the second consecutive season, a Burger King Scholar Athlete of the Week recipient and a National Football Foundation and College Football Hall of Fame postgraduate fellowship recipient.
Barber has carried the ball 250 times for 1,360 yards and 14 touchdowns this season. Barber also caught 22 passes for 258 yards and returned 19 punts for 241 yards and a touchdown this year.
* Salem's Shannon Harrison, a senior at Bridgewater, has been named to the Virginia Sports Information Directors' College Division All-State women's volleyball team.
Harrison is joined on the first team by Ferrum's Molly Maphis and Washington and Lee's Virginia Yoerg. The player of the year, Brenda LaFlamme, and coach of the year, Danny Miller, are from Averett College. Ferrum's Kristi Persinger and Cassi Carter are second-team selections.
* William Fleming's Maurice Lacy won the 125-pound weight class during the recent Albemarle Invitational wrestling tournament at Charlottesville. Lacy was 5-0 during the round-robin tournament with five pins.
The Colonels' Maurice Carson was third in the 160-pound class and Everett Watson was third at heavyweight. Fleming finished last in the six-team field, behind champion Lee-Davis and Potomac, Harrisonburg, Fork Union and Albemarle.
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