In the region: Lachlan, Pilat receive top ODAC honors
1. 41-vehicle wreck ties up traffic Sunday on I-81 in Rockbridge County
2. Virginia Tech football roster has holes on picture day
3. Medicare penalties hit hospitals in Roanoke, New River Valleys
4. Arrest made in case of missing Nelson County teen
5. McFarling: 2 little numbers are a big hurdle for Virginia Tech football
6. Microfestivus beer event gets downtown Roanoke hopping
7. DAN CASEY: Copter cost still stirring up dust
8. WOYM: Fewer stinkbugs? You may have wasps to thank
9. Virginia attorney general's office grows under Ken Cuccinelli
10. Roanoke farmers markets making local foods more accessible
Friday, May 3, 2013
Richard Lachlan of Roanoke College was named the ODAC men's lacrosse player of the year on Friday, while Roanoke's Bill Pilat was chosen coach of the year for the 10th time.
Washington and Lee's Joe LaSala was named scholar-athlete of the year for the second straight year. He has a 3.68 GPA.
Lachlan has scored 43 goals for the ODAC regular-season champion Maroons.
Lachlan and LaSala were joined on the All-ODAC first team by W&L's Mac Means, Andrew Fusselbaugh and Jared Mitchell and Roanoke's Conner Dubois, Charles Pease and Brayden Gerrie.
The second team included W&L's Cameron Dabir and Garrett Paglia and Roanoke's Mike Hayden and Troy Grogan.
The third team included Roanoke's Will Pilat (Hidden Valley) and Wes Pancoast and W&L's Noah Lessing.
Roanoke will host the ODAC semifinals today. Third-seeded W&L (14-3) will face second-seeded Lynchburg (12-4) at 4 p.m., with the top-seeded Maroons (13-3) meeting fifth-seeded Randolph-Macon (10-8) at 6:30 p.m.
Roanoke will also host Sunday's 3 p.m. final.
BASEBALL
Va. Tech 1, BC 0, 12 innings
CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. - Mark Zagunis scored on an error to give the No. 25 Hokies (29-18, 12-13) an ACC win over the Eagles (10-36, 2-22).
Joe Mantiply, Jake Joyce, Clark Labitan and Brad Markey combined on a three-hitter.
Radford 8, Longwood 4
FARMVILLE, Va. - Patrick Marshall had three hits and five RBIs to lead the Highlanders (25-20, 10-6) to a Big South win over the Lancers (21-22, 10-9).
Chris Coia had three hits and one RBI for Radford.
ETC.
Players honored
Virginia Tech's Mark Zagunis (3.35 GPA), W&L's Jonathan Stutts (3.55), W&L's Drew Weprinsky (3.86), Southern Virginia's C.J. Andrus (3.58) and Blacksburg graduate Eric Houff of Emory & Henry (3.64) have made the academic all-district team for baseball.
SVU's McKenzy Mackay (3.77) and Sarah Edwards, (4.0) and Hidden Valley graduate Sarah Cutright of Guilford (3.34) earned that honor for softball.
1. 41-vehicle wreck ties up traffic Sunday on I-81 in Rockbridge County
2. Virginia Tech football roster has holes on picture day
3. Medicare penalties hit hospitals in Roanoke, New River Valleys
4. Arrest made in case of missing Nelson County teen
5. McFarling: 2 little numbers are a big hurdle for Virginia Tech football
6. Microfestivus beer event gets downtown Roanoke hopping
7. DAN CASEY: Copter cost still stirring up dust
8. WOYM: Fewer stinkbugs? You may have wasps to thank
9. Virginia attorney general's office grows under Ken Cuccinelli
10. Roanoke farmers markets making local foods more accessible
THE ROANOKE TIMES
