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
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