ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1997, Roanoke Times
DATE: Saturday, January 25, 1997 TAG: 9701270105
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: B-4 EDITION: METRO
TYPE: IN THE REGION
SOURCE: FROM STAFF REPORTS
The Big South Conference, of which Radford University is a member, is adding men's and women's indoor track and field to its lineup of intercollegiate athletics.
Competition will begin in the winter of 1998 and the first conference championship will be held at UNC-Asheville.
In other news in the region:
* The new indoor track facility at Virginia Tech's Rector Field House is being used by high school athletes for the first time this weekend. The Virginia Tech High School Invitational continues today in Blacksburg after a Friday night start. More than 900 athletes from 120 schools, mostly from Virginia, are in the meet. Competition is scheduled today for about six hours, starting at 10 a.m.
* ``Hurricane'' Harry Cunningham, a student of the Star City Boxing Academy, will fight David Hurteas today in a three-round heavyweight bout in Elizabethton, Tenn.
Cunningham is a favorite to win the gold medal in the novice division at the Virginia Amateur Boxing State Championships on Feb. 8-9.
Cunningham, 25, has a 3-0 record with one knockout.
* Lord Botetourt's Takisha Basham was the sole winner from Timesland in the Virginia Tech-High School Track Invitational in Blacksburg. Basham won the girls' shot put with a heave of 38-4 1/4.
In the boys' 60-meter dash, Patrick Henry's James Hickenbotham finished third, William Fleming's Lee Suggs fifth and Patrick Henry's Shaun Akers sixth. Potomac's Mike Newell won in a time of 6.87 seconds.
Patrick Henry's Louis Booker and Christiansburg's Marsha Jones each finished second in the triple jump. Cave Spring's Ben Dowdy came in third in the boys' 3,200-meter run and William Fleming's Sharir Majied came in fifth in the boys' shot put. William Fleming's Yvette Jackson and Alesha Flint placed seventh and eighth in the girls' 60-meter dash.
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