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Greensboro Grasshoppers vice president of baseball operations, Katie Dannemiller, is this year's winner of the Rawlings Woman Executive of The Year award. The award has been given annually since 1976 to the most outstanding female executive in the nation in recognition of exceptional contributions to baseball. During her four seasons, the Grasshoppers have consistently ranked in the top 25 teams in Minor League baseball for attendance.

MEN'S SOCCER

SOUTHERN CONFERENCE: UNCG seniors Matt Elliott and Thomas Campbell earned second-team all-conference honors and freshmen Mike Magnotic and A.J. Nelson garnered all-freshman slots in the Southern Conference. Davidson forward Charlie Reiter was named the league's player of the year while Wofford's Ralph Polson was coach of the year. Elon's Chris Thomas was tabbed freshman of the year. Elon placed four players on the first team: Justin Wyatt, Erfan Imeni, Steven Kinney and Clint Irwin.

ACC: Top-seeded Wake Forest will battle fifth-seeded Virginia today at 5:30 p.m. at WakeMed Soccer Park in Cary in the semifinals of the ACC tournament. Third-seed Boston College and seventh-seeded N.C. State meet in the other semifinal at 8 p.m. In Thursday's quarterfinals, Wake Forest toppled Clemson 3-0, N.C. State downed North Carolina on penalty kicks 4-1 after playing to a scoreless tie, Virginia beat Maryland 1-0 and Boston College topped Duke 1-0.

BIG SOUTH: The Big South Conference men's soccer championship has been moved from High Point University's Vert Soccer Stadium to Gardner-Webb due to wet field conditions following two days of rain in the Triad. The quarterfinals will be held today, the semifinals on Saturday and the championship game on Sunday.

HONORS

DUKE: Junior walk-on kicker Will Snyderwine has been named one of 20 semifinalists for the Lou Groza Award, given annually to the nation's top placekicker.