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Area briefs: Wake to honor ex-trainer's wife

Thursday, July 24, 2008
(Updated 7:53 am)

Wake Forest's defending national champion men's soccer team will honor the wife of former trainer Stephen Wiley in its season opener Aug. 19 against Wofford at Spry Stadium in Winston-Salem. After a long battle with breast cancer, Genna Wiley died three days after Wake Forest won the national championship last fall. The Genna Wiley Memorial Game starts at 7 p.m.

GOLF

JAMESTOWN GOLFER QUALIFIES: Sydney Crane, a rising senior on the North Carolina women's golf team, has qualified for the U.S. Women's Amateur. Crane, a Jamestown native and alumna of Ragsdale High School, fired a 72 at Sapona Country Club in Lexington on July 9 to qualify for this year's Amateur, which will be played Aug. 4-10 at Eugene Country Club in Eugene, Ore. She also reached the quarterfinals of the Women's North & South Amateur before losing to Ryann O'Toole, a rising senior at UCLA.

BASEBALL

NORTH CAROLINA: After spending seven seasons on the North Carolina baseball staff, the last three as pitching coach, Scott Forbes has been promoted to associate head coach.

HITOMS RAINED OUT: The HiToms and Forest City Owls were rained out Wednesday night at Finch Field. The game will be made up Aug. 2 in Forest City.

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