Blacksburg wins Heritage Invitational
Blacksburg High School took the team title in Monday’s Heritage Invitational at the London Downs Golf Club in Forest. The Bruins outshot Hidden Valley by three-shots 293 to 296.
Ben Carroll led Blacksburg, shooting a 71. Jonah Winistorfer, Jake Duncan and Soren Winistorfer, all shot a 74.
Hidden Valley’s Ross Funderburke was the event’s medalist after shooting a 63.
RU picked fourth in poll
The Radford University women’s soccer team landed in fourth place on the Big South Preseason Coaches’ Poll, which was released on Monday afternoon. It marks the second straight year the Highlanders have been notched as the fourth-best team in the league.
Radford tallied 92 points and was 10 points behind Campbell, who was voted third with 102 points. Longwood totaled 106 points and one first-place vote to finish second. The returning Big South Conference Tournament champions, High Point, received seven first-place votes and earned 112 points, the most in the 2018 poll.
Campbell’s Alexa Genas was named Preseason Attacking Player of the Year, while Longwood’s Sydney Wallace was tabbed with Preseason Defensive Player of the Year. Radford’s Jasmine Casarez received 16 points and tallied one first-place vote in the Preseason Attacking Player of the Year voting. Casarez and Longwood’s Emilie Kupsov each had 16 points – eight less than Genas – and finished second in the voting.
Brooks joins Hokie staff
Virginia Tech Athletics announced the addition of Adam Brooks to the staff as director of equipment services for football on Tuesday, joining the staff of Erik Lewis who serves as Tech’s director of equipment services.
Brooks comes to Virginia Tech after spending the last three years at Georgia Southern, working as the head equipment manager for two years before being promoted to director of equipment services his last year in Statesboro.
Prior to his assignment with Georgia Southern, Brooks served five years at the United States Military Academy beginning his tenure as an assistant equipment manager in 2010. He later served as the head equipment manager for Army men’s and women’s basketball, while assisting with football at West Point.
Meet the RU Coaches Night
Radford University Athletics will hold its third annual Meet the Coaches Night presented by National Bank on Wednesday, August 22. The event will be held at the Sinkland Farms Brewery from 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Guests will have the opportunity to meet and greet with coaches from each of Radford’s 16 athletic programs, as well as learn more about the different programs. Complimentary appetizers and a cash bar will be available.
Please pre-register at www.thehighlanderclub.com.
Concord games on WVVA
Concord University and WVVA-TV have signed a contract for the fourth consecutive year for three home football games to air on the Bluefield, West Virginia’s NBC affiliate, the two organizations announced Tuesday morning.
The three dates for the games will September 22 against Notre Dame, October 6 versus Glenville State and October 27 versus West Liberty.
Over the last four years, WVVA has broadcasted a total of 10 Concord home football games
McFlynn pre-season All-ACC
Following back-to-back quality seasons in goal for the Hokies, Virginia Tech junior Mandy McGlynn has been named to the 2018 Preseason All-ACC Women’s Soccer Team, as announced by the league office on Monday afternoon. McGlynn is one of 11 student-athletes to make the preseason team, which was voted on by the conference’s coaches.
Tech’s starting goalkeeper the past two years, McGlynn has made 34 career starts, has 18 career wins, already tied for fourth all-time at the school, and 12 career shutouts (third-best). The Jacksonville, Florida, native sports a career .769 save percentage and 1.10 goals against average, with her 1.03 GAA in 2017 ranking the sixth-best single season mark ever for the Hokies.
McGlynn will miss the first few weeks of Tech’s 2018 campaign as she is currently in France with the U.S. Under-20 Women’s National Team who is competing in the 2018 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup.
Concord football picked 11th in conference play
The Concord University football team has been slotted to finish 11th in the Mountain East Conference preseason coaches’ poll that was revealed Thursday afternoon at MEC Football Media Day.
Three-time defending MEC champion Shepherd topped the poll with six of 11 first-place votes and 94 points. Fairmont State also picked up multiple first-place votes with three poll topping nods and 88 points. Notre Dame followed closely behind with 87 points and a first-place vote while Charleston grabbed the final first-place tally and 63 points. West Virginia State (61 points) rounded out the top five. WVSU was followed by West Liberty (45 points), UVa.-Wise (44 points), West Virginia Wesleyan (42 points), Glenville State (35 points), Urbana (34 points) and CU (12 points).
RU men tabbed second
Results of the 2018 Big South Men’s Soccer Preseason Poll are in and they bode well for Radford University this fall. The Highlanders were picked to finish second in the nine-team conference standings while redshirt senior forward Kieran Roberts was voted Co-Attacking Player of the Year.
Coming off a 10-4-4 campaign that culminated in an unfortunate exit from the Big South Championships following a semifinal loss in 2017, the Highlanders expect to reach new heights this time around.
In its second season under head coach Bryheem Hancock, Radford returns six players who started 10 or more games a season ago, including all-conference performers Kieran Roberts, Victor Valls and Max Edwards.
Roberts was a favorite to garner preseason Attacking Player of the Year honors following a stellar 2017 season that saw him score a conference-leading 15 goals, tying him for fourth in the nation. The Bournemouth, England native led the country with 5.44 shots per game and 2.83 shots on goal per game while also ranking 10th in the nation for points (31) and points per game (1.72).
