THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Sunday, September 11, 1994 TAG: 9409090316
SECTION: SUFFOLK SUN PAGE: 25 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: BY JOHN GORDON, SUN SPORTS EDITOR
LENGTH: Medium: 95 lines
Suffolk Land and Timber's softball team won four out of six games and came in eighth out of 52 teams at the National Softball Association regional softball tournament at Burlington, N.C., last weekend.
SLT nipped the High Point, N.C., Braves, 7-6, but lost to W & S Painting of Bluefield, W.Va., 8-4. The local club won the next three, beating Williams Painting of Columbia, S.C., 16-13, the Weekend Warriors of Gastonia, N.C., 7-4, and Madison Food World of Front Royal, Va., 16-4.
DJ's of Burlington eliminated the Suffolk squad, 7-5. Leading hitters for SLT were Robbie Brooks (.619), Joe Jones (.600), Clarence Babb (.563) and Gerald Davis (.545). Davis' brother, Kenny, was the leading pitcher with a 3-1 record.
Suffolk Land and Timber is playing host to its inaugural fall classic slow pitch softball tournament Sept. 24-25. A rain date has been set for Oct. 1-2.
The event will be played on two fields - Monogram Field on Sleepy Hole Road in the Driver area, and at Peanut Park on Carolina Road in Suffolk. Entry fee is $110 per team.
For further information, call Jerry Clark at 461-4312 (work) or 934-3655 (home).
SUFFOLK TEAM SECOND: The Players from Suffolk placed second in the second annual Eagle Mart slow pitch softball tournament, held at Smithfield's Nike Park recently.
The Buckmasters of Newport News won the tourney and Shockem, also of Newport News, placed third. Chad Green, Buckmasters' left fielder, was chosen the event's most valuable player, according to Allen Polson.
Eight teams participated in the round-robin, double elimination tourney. Proceeds from the tournament will go toward sending the Eagle Mart team to the NSA Class C World Series in Atlanta.
BOWLING SEASON OPENS: The Suffolk Tuesday Night Ladies Night bowling league opened this past week, and Anita Joyce rolled a 314 series to lead Starr Motors to a 4-0 victory over Al Smith Repairs. Evelyn Bradshaw led the losers with a 302.
G.P. Jackson is tied with Ocean Threads with 3-1 marks at Portsmouth's Victory Lanes. Marguerite Butler had the evening's high set of 328 to lead G.P. Jackson over Mike Duman, Karen Smith fired a 309 to pace Ocean Threads over Morris & Piland. Brenda Gregory's 309 led the Mike Duman team.
Suffolk Alignment and Suffolk Glass battled to a 2-2 tie. Denise Carrow shot a 313 for Suffolk Alignment and Leola Smith bowled a 324 for Suffolk Glass. Smith had the league's high game of 125.
UMPIRES START CLASS: Until a couple years ago, baseball umpires for the Suffolk Youth Athletic Association were a group of freelancers.
``We'd dress in dungarees or shorts,'' John Pierce said. ``But we decided to become more professional and give the kids better officiating.''
One of the first steps was forming the Western Tidewater Officials Association and Pierce has served as president for two years. Another big step was setting up an umpires' school.
Classes for this year's five-day school will be at Diamond Springs Park, 501 Kings Fork Rd., beginning Monday at 7 p.m. Richard ``Bullett'' Alexander will be the chief of six instructors.
Interested persons should contact Pierce at 925-6325 (work) or 539-8545 (home) or Bob Gillette at 539-1221 (work) or 539-7911 (home).
TENNIS TOURNEY SLATED: The Suffolk Tennis Association will have the annual men and women's local championships and the junior veteran men and women's local tournament at the Lake Meade Landing tennis complex, beginning Monday at 6 p.m.
Singles, doubles and mixed doubles will be played during the seven-day event. All divisions will have a second flight except the mixed doubles division in each age group.
Defending champions are Chavez Mabry, men's singles; Pat Bristow, first flight singles; Lee Grover and Mabry, men's doubles; Lisa Brinkley, women's singles; Colette Green, first flight singles; Scherry Johnson and Brinkley, women's doubles; Brinkley and Mabry, mixed doubles.
Bobby Morgan and Susie Slack are the tourney directors.
BIKE TREK SET: Sue Lynch of Suffolk and Bruce Spital of Smithfield will be a couple of the key riders in the ninth annual Colonial Virginia Bike Trek on Oct. 8-9.
The two-day bicycle tour will raise money for the American Lung Association, and this year, officials are resuming a special 25-mile family fun ride on Oct. 8, beginning at 8 a.m. Family teams also can ride in 50- and 100-mile rides on Oct. 8 as well as a 50-miler Oct. 9, which will start at 9 a.m..
Families must pay a $25 registration fee and raise a minimum of $550 in contributions. However, they will receive two nights lodging at the Williamsburg Hilton, site of all ride starts, as well as a reception on Oct. 7.
Interested persons should contact Davis in his Norfolk office at 855-3059 or call 1-800-LUNG-USA. by CNB