ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1997, Roanoke Times
DATE: Friday, March 14, 1997 TAG: 9703140052
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: B-4 EDITION: METRO
TYPE: IN THE REGION
SOURCE: FROM STAFF REPORTS
Former South Carolina football coach Sparky Woods was named offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Virginia.
Woods, an assistant at Memphis the past two seasons, replaces Joe Krivak, who recently resigned. Woods had been an offensive assistant for the New York Jets in 1994 before becoming the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Memphis.
A native of Oneida, Tenn., Woods was 24-28-3 in five seasons at South Carolina. He compiled a 38-19-2 record at Appalachian State from 1984-88 and guided the Mountaineers to Southern Conference championships in 1986 and '87.
After graduating from Carson-Newman in 1976, Woods began his coaching career as an assistant at Tennessee, worked at Kansas in 1977, coached defensive backs at North Alabama in 1978, and served as an Iowa State assistant from 1980-82.
BASEBALL
Hokies hammer Mason
Virginia Tech banged out 16 hits - all singles - in beating George Mason 19-7 at English Field in a game halted with two out in the eighth inning due to darkness.
Barry Gauch singled in two runs in Tech's six-run first inning, drove in another run with a fielder's choice in a five-run fourth and added another run-scoring single in a four-run fifth. Third baseman Chad Foutz (Franklin County) drove in three runs with two hits and Nick Perlozzo and Matt Griswold each had two hits and two RBI for Tech (5-9).
SOFTBALL
Tech swept at home
George Mason swept Virginia Tech 7-6 and 4-3 in a doubleheader at Blacksburg.
Tech (9-7) rallied from a 6-2 deficit with a four-run seventh highlighted by RBI singles from Michelle Meadows and Katie Mills and a two-run double from Beth Drombetta. George Mason (7-8) scored in the eighth to win it.
Radford: Georgia Tech pitcher Beth Warren hit a home run in the bottom of the sixth inning to lift the Yellow Jackets to an 8-7 comeback win over the Highlanders in Atlanta.
The second game of the doubleheader was called in the third inning due to rain and darkness. No decision has been made as to whether the game will be resumed today.
ETC.
All-Academic honors
VMI's Jason Foresman, a civil engineering major with a 3.67 grade-point average, was named to the GTE Academic All-District III At-Large team for the second straight year. Foresman, a senior from Virginia Beach, won the Southern Conference 150-pound title on March 1 and will compete in the NCAA championships March 20-22 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
The at-large team consists of athletes in wrestling, swimming, soccer and gymnastics. Virginia soccer players Mike Fisher, a senior with a 3.40 GPA in biology and pre-med, and Andriy Shapowal, a junior with a 3.95 GPA in commerce, also made the team.
Swimming: Washington and Lee freshman Brooke Stanley earned first team All-America honors at the NCAA Division III Women's Swimming and Diving Championships at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
Stanley, the 1997 Old Dominion Athletic Conference Swimmer of the Year, finished sixth in the 50-yard freestyle with a time of 24.15 seconds. Stanley will compete in the 100-yard butterfly at the NCAA meet today.
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