The Virginian-Pilot
                             THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT 
              Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Friday, November 4, 1994               TAG: 9411040933
SECTION: SPORTS                   PAGE: C8   EDITION: FINAL 
SOURCE: BY PATTI WALSH, STAFF WRITER 
DATELINE: NORFOLK                            LENGTH: Short :   33 lines

ODU BEGINS PLAY IN COLONIAL FIELD HOCKEY AS A RARE UNDERDOG

Old Dominion heads into the Colonial Athletic Association tournament today at James Madison University as the underdog for the first time in spite of placing four players on the All-CAA team.

Senior backs Sue Callahan and Alaina Hunt and forward Karen Neiss repeat as first-team selections, while junior midfielder Sam Salvia moves up after earning second-team honors last season.

Senior keeper Kim Decker and senior back Sue Dano were named to the second team.

The Monarchs (14-5-1 overall, 4-2 CAA), who have won all three CAA tournament titles, are ranked fourth in the country behind No. 3 James Madison, No. 2 Northwestern and No. 1 North Carolina.

ODU enters the tournament seeded third after falling to JMU (16-2-1, 6-0) and American (14-2, 4-1) during the regular season.

The Monarchs meet Richmond (5-13-1, 1-5) today in the first round at 3 p.m. ODU previously defeated Richmond, 9-0.

The winner will advance to Saturday's semifinals against the American-Virginia Commonwealth (7-9-0, 1-5-0) victor. Top-seeded JMU, which received a first-round bye, will face the winner of today's 10 a.m contest between William and Mary (8-10, 2-3) and Radford (9-8, 2-4).

The championship game is Sunday at 1 p.m. by CNB