Bassett's Kameron Carter leads the Timesland contingent competing in the 84th VSGA Women's Amateur Championship that begins today at Danville Golf Club.

Carter, 20, a junior at Longwood, advanced to the semifinals last year, falling to eventual champion Lauren Doughtie of Suffolk. Doughtie has since turned professional and is playing on the Futures Tour, the LPGA's development circuit.

Salem's Dot Bolling, the 2000 champion, and former VSGA Senior Am winner Fran Hensley of Ridgeway also are in the field.

• Moneta's Dan Mitchell, who stunned top-seeded Richard Suggs of Palmyra 2 and 1 in last year's final, will shoot for a second straight title when the VSGA's Super Senior Amateur Championship begins today at The Homestead Resorts Cascades Course in Hot Springs. Mitchell, a member of Roanoke's Blue Hills Golf Club, rode a hot putter to his first triumph in the 65-and-over division.

• A pair of Roanokers -- Marvin Taylor, who lost in the semifinal last year, and Bill Proffitt, who was third in the VSGA Senior Stroke Play event earlier this year -- also rank as contenders.

Roanoke's Ned Baber and Bill Shrader are the top area threats in the 70-and-over division.

Tournament wraps

Roanoke's Meredith Swanson finished 22nd in the Rolex Tournament of Champions, which concluded Saturday in Cape Giraldeau, Mo.

Swanson finished the 72-hole grind at 13-over 301. Argentina's Victoria Tanco, winner of last year's Scott Robertson Memorial, dusted the elite 66-player field, firing 13-under 275 to coast to a nine-shot victory.

• Blacksburg's Jake Mondy finished 12th in the 108-player field at the AJGA Nemocolin Junior Classic that concluded Friday in Farmington, Pa. The Blacksburg High junior shot 74-75-78 for the 54-hole event at the par-72, 6,978-yard Nemocolin Woodlands Resort course.

Other area players and their finishes included Roanoke's Matt Harman (239, 49th), Salem's Parker Davis (252, 88th), Roanoke's Ben Firebaugh (253, 91st) and Salem's Ryan Davis, who was disqualified in the final round.

Harman, a Cave Spring High senior, finished 28th in a 96-player field at the 31st North-South Junior in Pinehurst, N.C., last week.

Aiming for Pebble

Salem brothers Ryan and Parker Davis will be among 84 players heading to Rogers, Ark., on July 14-18 to compete for an opportunity to play in the Aug. 31-Sept. 6 WalMart First Tee Open in Pebble Beach, Calif.

The Davis boys are the two participants from The First Tee of Roanoke Valley hoping to make the trip to Pebble Beach, where qualifiers will play with a Champion Tour player and two amateurs each day in the event.

Parker, 16, made the trip to Pebble last year.

"The blast of a lifetime," he said of the all-expenses-paid experience.

Pretty 'Goodes' day

Champions Tour player Mike Goodes recently shot a 14-under 57 at Greensboro Country Club, where he parred the last two holes.

"Folded under the pressure, I guess,'' Goodes quipped to the Greensboro News & Record.

Goodes had a 10-hole stretch in which he had eight birdies and two eagles on the 6,130-yard Donald Ross-designed course. Goodes broke the course record of 59 set by former PGA Tour player Lee Porter.