By LARRY O'DELL
Associated Press Writer
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Legislators approved Gov. Jim Gilmore's proposal to pump an additional $100 million a year into transportation, despite critics' warnings that the plan will tie up money that might be needed for other priorities.
On another high-profile issue, the legislature rejected language from Gilmore that would have replaced a temporary healthcare plan for thousands of unemployed textile workers in the Martinsville area with a statewide grant program.
Gilmore still can use his line-item veto to reject the legislature's healthcare plan. He said Wednesday that he had not decided what to do.
''I'm surprised and disappointed because my amendment would have been good for all people of the commonwealth,'' Gilmore said.
Sen. Charles Hawkins, R-Pittsylvania, said Gilmore's plan could create unnecessary delays because local governments would have to apply to the state for funds. Only two senators voted for Gilmore's proposal.
The General Assembly also upheld 15 of Gilmore's 16 vetoes during Wednesday's one-day session. Lawmakers rejected Gilmore's veto of a bill that would make worker's compensation benefits available to non-U.S. citizens, even if they are illegally employed.
After debate that divided both parties, the Senate accepted the Republican governor's proposal to earmark a third of the revenue from a tax on insurance premiums for transportation projects. The proposal was an amendment to the six-year, $2.6 billion transportation bill passed by the assembly.
Urging his party to reject Gilmore's amendment, Sen. John Chichester, R-Stafford, said robbing the state general fund for highway needs would leave the state unable to meet more pressing needs.
''This year, it's a third of the insurance tax, next time it's half,'' Chichester said. ''The 800-pound gorilla of transportation has an insatiable appetite.''
Among those agreeing with Chichester were Democratic Sens. Madison Marye of Montgomery and R. Edward Houck of Spotsylvania.
''We do have a transportation crisis in this state, but we have an even bigger crisis - education,'' Marye said. ''I'm going to tell you who will be using those highways. It will be our teachers who are going to be heading to North Carolina, or to West Virginia ... to other states that pay their teachers better.''
Houck said the $100 million that Gilmore's amendment would earmark for transportation exceeds all the pet projects lawmakers listed in the transportation bill passed in the 59-day session that ended last month.
But two Fairfax Democrats - Sens. Richard Saslaw and Leslie Byrne - joined Republican Sen. Bill Bolling of Hanover County in urging approval of the amendment.
''We are talking about the commonwealth being able to do its business,'' Byrne said. ''We are talking about businesses who are concerned, ... and who are considering leaving.''
Saslaw warned that unless lawmakers were ready to use cash from the general fund for transportation, they'd better brace themselves to increase taxes on fuel.
Bolling noted that while general fund spending had increased by an average of 10 percent over the past six years, spending from the Transportation Trust Fund had increased only 4 percent on average each year of that period.
The Senate voted 22-16, with one abstention, to pass Gilmore's amendment to the Senate version of the bill. Without debate, the House passed the same amendment to its transportation package 94-5.
''The entire direction of transportation policy has been turned now, and I'm very proud of that,'' Gilmore told reporters after the vote. It was crucial that the transportation plan include an ongoing source of revenue, he said.
The vote to override Gilmore's veto of the worker's compensation bill was 78-21 in the House, 36-3 in the Senate. The bill had passed both chambers without dissent.
Supporters of the bill said it would protect employers from being sued by alien workers who are injured on the job. Gilmore argued that it was improper to provide a state benefit to aliens living and working here illegally.
The legislature sustained Gilmore's veto of legislation to make the watchdog for the state's troubled mental hospitals an independent agency.
Two Republicans, Del. Phillip Hamilton of Newport News and Sen. Warren E. Barry of Fairfax, proposed moving the Department for Rights of Virginians with Disabilities outside the executive branch of government. Advocates for the mentally ill say the current arrangement creates a conflict of interests.
''Protection of the mentally ill is among our core functions,'' said Del. Harvey Morgan, R-Gloucester.
Some legislators acknowledged that Gilmore has made improvements in DRVD, but Morgan said things could change after Gilmore's term ends in January 2002.
''If something comes up embarrassing to a future administration, the administration can sweep it under the rug,'' Morgan said.
The legislature also failed to muster the two-thirds vote needed to override vetoes of bills to:
-expand the use of cameras to catch stoplight violators;
-require guidance counselors in all elementary schools;
-raise vehicle license fees by $1 to support volunteer rescue squads; and
-increase safety inspection fees from $10 to $15 for passenger vehicles, and to $25 for large trucks.

Halifax Town Council squirmed in dismay Tuesday night, but in the end, it confirmed its earlier decision: county residents taken in during the 1999 boundary adjustment cannot vote in the May 2 election.
It was a decision no one liked.
Advised by the State Board of Elections on Monday afternoon that the town could not postpone the May 2 election, and without U.S. Justice Department approval of its proposed new ward and extended boundaries of the current wards, council was without options.
The council moved to hold the May 2 election with its existing four wards participating.
County citizens taken in during the 1999 boundary adjustment cannot vote or participate as candidates in that contest.
Town Manager Robert Greene said that although the U.S. Justice Department had neither officially confirmed nor denied the town's proposed wards, word had come through state channels that Justice had indicated verbally that the proposal would not be approved because it appeared to dilute the minority vote in the Town of Halifax.
Green told councilmen that he thought the town might ultimately keep its four wards, but with extended boundaries.
It was, however, the upcoming election that drew council's undivided attention.
"I think we are doing something illegal. I don't care who tells us to do it," Councilman S.J. "Jack" Dunavant said, who wanted to refuse to hold an election leaving out the town's newest residents.
The councilman also called for a ruling or statement from a higher authority before holding the May election.
"If we refuse to hold the election May 2, we are representing the town's people much better," added Dunavant. "They would be much better represented if we go with a later date."
"The whole thing is diluting the minority vote in the Town of Halifax," said Cabell Daniel, who added it would be impossible to change the wards in time for an election.
Dunavant suggested waiting several days to petition the court in order to allow time to contact the Justice Department and seek approval of a ward plan.
The councilman suggested contacting Congressman Virgil Goode and senators Charles Robb and John Warner to seek their help in resolving the issue.
While not opposed to seeking their help, other councilman said that time was running out.
Greene noted that the deadline for the state to certify ballots was passed and that time was of the essence.
The town manager also noted that with the completion of the 2000 census, the town would almost certainly have to redraw ward boundaries.
Councilman Younger said that it seemed to him that council was looking at a May 2 election and then another election after Justice Department approval of a ward plan.
"This council is not going to leave anybody out," Greene emphasized. Newly incorporated residents will continue to receive all services promised.
"We have done everything we said we would do, except a seat on council," added the manager. "But we will do that."
Town council ultimately confirmed its earlier decision to have its attorney file a petition to the order of annexation with the circuit court in order to hold the May 2 election. The town asked the county to file a similar position during the supervisors' meeting Monday night, and they agreed.
The town has been under a consent order since the American Civil Liberties Union brought a lawsuit against the town in 1988.
Halifax FY 2000 Budget
In other business, council heard the first reading of its $1,075,081 FY 2000 budget.
The town manager advised supervisors that the proposed budget was balanced and that it did include the sewer plant upgrade.
Approved in November 1999, the sewer plant upgrade is to be capitalized through the Virginia Revolving Loan Fund in the amount of $1,200,000 financed at 3 percent over 20 years.
Greene said that figure was based on the preliminary engineering report.
The town manager said that next the council would need to look at capital financing to address deficiencies at the water plant.
Currently, the plant is at 80 percent production level, explained Greene, which is the guide line to start the engineering work on a capital improvement project designed to increase capacity. The state Health Department is mandating compliance.
Greene said that it is estimated that the town could modernize its testing equipment, expand the flock basin, rebuild the filter and double the plant capacity at an estimated cost of $300,000, which would take care of projected needs for residential and industrial growth within the town's boundaries.
The water plant will be included as a budget item later, Greene said, if the upgrade is workable.
The town manager advised that the capital expenses for the budget are balanced with the exception of the water plant. Based on the projected expense of $23,362 annually, Greene said that if the town proceeded with the proposed upgrade, it would fall in the last half of the budget and would be incorporated in FY 2001.
The tax rate and fees were not included in the first reading of the FY 2000 budget.

Donnie Wayne Bowman, 44, has been sentenced to an effective term of five years in the penitentiary for charges brought after a standoff with South Boston police on December 8, 1998.
In 10th District Circuit Court on Wednesday, Judge William L. Wellons sentenced Bowman to a total of 16 years for three counts of an attempted malicious wounding of a police officer, use of a firearm to attempt malicious wounding of an officer and possessing a firearm after being convicted of a felony.
Wellons suspended all but five years on condition of Bowman's good behavior for 10 years after his release.
The court also ordered supervised probation for Bowman for three years after his release and that he be subjected to random drug tests.
Bowman had pleaded guilty to amended charges as part of a plea agreement at his trial on December 9, 1999.
Prior to sentencing, Judge Wellons denied a defense motion to withdraw Bowman's original plea agreement.
The motion to withdraw Bowman's original plea alleged mishandling of Bowman's defense at his trial.
In overuling the motion, Wellons said that Bowman "was given reasonable time to consider his options. He did accept the agreement...the agreement was explained to him and signed by the defendant (Bowman)."
· Lamont Yusef Thomas, 27, of South Boston was sentenced to an effective total of seven years in prison on Tuesday in 10th District Circuit Court in Halifax.
Thomas had previously been convicted of three counts of forging a check with intent to defraud, three counts of uttering a check with the intent to defraud and one count of conspiring to commit a felony.
Judge Charles L. McCormick III originally sentenced Thomas to five years in prison on each of the seven counts.
All but seven years were suspended on condition of Thomas' good behavior for 35 years after his release. He will be on probation until full restitution is made to his victims.
· Christopher C. Ashby, 28, of Nathalie, was sentenced on Tuesday to 12 months in jail for driving after being declared a habitual offender.
Work release was authorized for Ashby while incarcerated.
· Terena Ann Barksdale, 21, of South Boston, was sentenced on Tuesday to 15 years in prison on convictions of forging with intent to defraud, uttering with intent to defraud and conspiring to commit a felony.
Judge Charles L. McCormick III suspended all but seven months of Barksdale's sentence on condition of her good behavior for 15 years after being released.

Barksdale will also remain on active supervised probation for two years after incarceration, and be required to maintain regular employment in order to pay restitution to her victims.
· Curtis Craft, 34, of Hurt, had 60 days of his previously suspended jail sentence revoked on Tuesday for failure to be of uniform good behavior.
Work release was authorized and · Kristine Kaye White, 31, of South Boston, was sentenced to a total of 47 years in prison, with all but two years suspended, on 24 counts of forging and uttering, 22 counts of embezzling U.S. currency and one count of grand larceny.
The court granted the suspended sentence on condition of White's good behavior for 20 years after her release. White will also be placed on supervised probation for three years at that time.
The court ordered White to produce a blood sample for DNA record purposes and ordered her to pay restitution to her victims.

Four Danville residents received warrants yesterday from sheriff's deputies after a hatchet job to mailboxes along five miles of River Road.
Jacob Rust, 18; Kevin Worley, 18; Peter Thompson, 21; and D.J. Davage, 18; were each charged with one count of possession of marijuana, two charges of possession of alcohol and 88 counts of destroying and defacing public property.
The subjects were held and released Thursday morning, April 6, and warrants were issued as a result of the incidents which allegedly took place before 2 a.m. on the morning of the arrests.
The four individuals will receive a summons to appear in Halifax County General District Court.
Additional charges are pending.
· Anthony N. Fisher, 34, of Buck Horace Trail in Nathalie, was arrested Wednesday by sheriff's deputies on a charge of assault and battery.
Fisher allegedly committed the assault and battery of Janet A. Fisher on April 17.
· Lawrence Everett, 18, of South Boston, was apprehended Wednesday evening after a foot chase by sheriff's deputies near the woods of Riverdale and East Hyco Road.
Everett was wanted for three outstanding warrants.
Deputy Craig Spenser was assisted by the South Boston Police Department in the apprehension.
· According to the Halifax Sheriff's Department, sometime during the week of April 10 to 15, a grey Suzuki Outboard boat motor was stolen from Bethel Road just outside the Town of Halifax.
Anyone with information about the stolen motor is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 476-8477 or 575-8477.

In other police reports:
A 17-year-old South Boston youth was charged with failing to yield the right of way which resulted in a chain reaction that involved five cars Tuesday afternoon on the entranceway of Halifax County High School at Old Halifax Road.
Officer M.T. Moreno of the South Boston Police Department said the chain of events occurred as a 1993 Chevrolet pickup, driven by the youth, struck the rear of a 1996 Chevrolet pickup driven by David Day Jr., 18, of South Boston.
The 17-year-old's vehicle continued on and sideswiped a 1996 Chevrolet, driven by a 16-year-old Alton youth, and then continued on to run head-on into a 1981 Oldsmobile, driven by Sheila H. Davis, 44, of Vernon Hill.
The Davis vehicle was then hit in the rear by a 1994 Chevrolet, driven by a 16-year-old Scottsburg youth.
Davis sustained a minor injury from the collision.
Moreno estimated $2,500 in damages to the Day vehicle, $2,000 in estimated damages to the Davis vehicle, $1,500 in estimated damage to the 16-year-old Alton youth's vehicle and $800 in estimated damage to the 17-year-old South Boston youth's vehicle.
· Nelson Jones, 30, of Chatham Road in Nathalie, was charged with driving under the influence Wednesday night that led to his arrest by sheriff's deputies on an habitual offender charge.
Trooper D.J. Cline said Jones was driving a 1988 Chevrolet van on Newbill School Road (Route 621), one mile east of West Store Road (Route 609), that ran off of the right side of the road, then the driver lost control and his vehicle ran off of the left side of the road before striking numerous trees.
Cline estimated $2,000 in damages to the vehicle from the 9:40 p.m. crash.
Jones is scheduled to appear in Halifax County General District Court on May 3.

American Indians will explain how their people lived in harmony with the environment throughout the centuries during the annual Earth Day Celebration next week in South Boston.
Entertainment, food and educational displays will also be featured during the 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, April 29, event at Constitution Square.
The fourth annual Earth Day is hosted by the Halifax County Improvement Council and sponsored by Old Dominion Electric Cooperative and JPS Apparel.
Winners of this year's poster contest will be displayed in the gazebo.
At 1:30 p.m., the Improvement Council will introduce the new mascot for their anti-litter campaign. Her name is Glitter, the anti-litter bug, and she will be greeting visitors and distributing educational materials.
Glitter will become a familiar bug in the community, making appearances at schools, the county fair and other local events. "Don't be a litter bug - be a Glitter bug" and "Pick up litter - Make Halifax Shine" will become community watch words.
Vice Chief Lone Eagle, a member of the Metit Nation Mountain Willow tribe, will demonstrate how American Indians lived in harmony with the earth, using the earth's natural resources without abusing or exploiting them.
Indian artifacts also will be displayed and Lone Eagle will play the flute.
Entertainment will include Jessica Bowman, South Boston United Martial Arts demonstration team, Christian Community Youth Fellowship and Chief Otis K. Martin of the Person County, N.C., High Plains Indian tribe, who will talk about Person County Indian history leading into the environmental recycling of land.
Jim King of Innis Free Society will display and sell handmade wood planters and walking sticks, and Denise Longo of Chester Plantation will display and sell potted herb plants and bird houses made from gourds.
B.J.'s Grille on Wheels will serve popular menu choices and Lucky Leaf 4-H will be selling baked goods.
Recreation for the kids will include basketball, compliments of the Halifax County Recreation Departments; putt-putt golf from the South Boston Recreation Department; Dale Trent will have his inflatable tent; and the Youth Department of Childrey Church will have face, hair and nail painting.
Educational displays and hands-on activities for the kids will be provided by the Virginia Cooperative Extension, Soil and Water Conservation District, Halifax County Farm Bureau, Department of Forestry, Halifax County Agricultural Development Committee, Agricultural Development Office, Staunton River State Park and 4-H Clubs.
The Improvement Council will be selling "Earth Day 2000" T-shirts for $10 each, or you can fill out an entry form to win one. Drawings will be held throughout the day, but the winner must be present to receive the prize. Free posters, litter bags and educational materials will be given away.
For additional information call the Improvement Council at 476-3308.

With less than three months left before the end of the fiscal year, the county and towns' fuel gauges are definitely running on or near empty.
South Boston Treasurer Vandie Saunders figured on some fuel price increase while crunching FY-2000 numbers last year. He added a few more bucks for comfort and settled on $50,290.
By the first of March, South Boston had spent over $42,850 on fuels.
"I had no idea it would be this catastrophic!"
Last year, the town was purchasing gasoline for 60 cents per gallon. Recently, it cost $102.
Incidentally, that's without federal and state taxes. Municipalities and other government entities are exempt from fuel taxes (see accompanying inset for total taxes on road fuels).
Even with the slight downward trend recently in the soaring price of fuels , it didn't come soon enough to ease the impact on the already-strained budget for the Halifax County public school system.
Nothing else in all of Halifax County can compare to the fuels consumed by the 120 school buses which trace, twice each school day, the almost 850 miles of highways along which the more than 6,000 students live.
Some bus runs last two hours. One way!
School officials had expected to spend approximately $175,000 for transportation fuels. Over $200,000 will be spent this year.
School system Finance Director Bill Covington is charged with the task of predicting how much it will cost to keep the fleet running. He likes to plan expenses by using the "worst case scenario." This year he's seen that scenario played out in full!
In "normal" years, the unspent fuel budget is transferred to other categories such as repairs or improvements to the county's sprawling education plant. This year, it's unlikely even chump change will be left in the $267,000 vehicle and power equipment fuel-line item.
Keeping warm this year hasn't been bargain either. Just when almost everyone was convinced that global warming might really raise the level of the oceans, record snowfall and subfreezing temperatures shut down practically everything except the fuel oil delivery trucks.
As with the cost of transportation, the school system is likely to deplete its entire $116,000 budget for heating cost.
Given all these conditions, however, Covington believes the 1999-2000 budget year will play out with available revenues. No increases over the current budget are sought in the proposed FY-2001 budget for equipment fuel or heating services.
County operations, which include the sheriff's department, public works, general properties, animal control, and environmental services (solid waste disposal), building inspection and the county administrator's office, are also running out of fuel. Through March, 92.3 percent of the budgeted amount for vehicle expenses had been depleted.
The total vehicle expense budget for Halifax County this year is $137,500 which includes maintenance and repairs in addition to fuels.
Already exceeding the budget are building inspection ($3,460 -138%), animal control ($5,385 - 107%), and general properties ($5,295 -132%). Add to that list, now, the sheriff's department which had spent $70,115 or 98 percent of its budgeted vehicle expenses before April.
The county, by purchasing fuels in bulk, was paying .68.5 cents a gallon for diesel fuel last July. In March, the price was .98 cents a gallon. Gasoline prices have ranged from .99 cents to $1.34 gallon during the same period.
Gasoline prices of recent have fallen an average of 5.4 cents per gallon. In Virginia, the price of self-serve regular averages $1.43 across the state but locally, the price can be found as low as $1.33 gallon. That price, incidentally, is among the lowest in the nation.

A solo homer by Todd Meadows in the bottom of the fifth inning fueled a two run rally that lifted Halifax County to a 14-6 come from behind win over Dinwiddie in yesterday's opening game of the Halifax County Spring Invitational Baseball Tournament.
The win came in what was the first of two games for the Comets yesterday.
Halifax County was to face Northern Durham last night in the last of the day's three games.
The Comets are scheduled to face Franklin County tonight at 7 p.m.in the final game of the tournament
"We have to do things to manufacture runs and he did it at a crucial time," said Comets coach Kelvin Davis whose team improved to 8-1 on the season.
"It was a big hit for us. Todd has been hitting the ball for us. The last couple of games he's been big with the bat. That's the role he's got to play for us."
The Comets had 12 hits in the game and were led by Nick Thompson who had three hits. Meadows and Chad Compton had two hits each in the win.
Meadows' homer with one out in the bottom of the fifth inning broke a 6-6 deadlock. David Green, running for Chad Compton who came up with an infield hit, scored on a passed ball later in the inning to give the Comets an 8-6 lead.
The Comets put the game away by adding six more runs in the bottom of the sixth inning with a run scoring single by Brian Medley, a pair of two RBI base hits, one each from R.D. Cole and Josh Milam, and one run being forced in when Geoff Moore walked.
"This was a big win for us," Davis said.
"This is the first setp back after the loss to Albemarle. We want to come out of this tournament 3-0. That's our goal for this week."
The Comets got off to a slow start and fell behind 3-0 in the first inning. They bounced back to tie the game and take a 6-3 lead in the bottom of the fourth inning. Dinwiddie deadlocked the game in the top of the fifth only to see the Comets rebound with a pair of runs in the bottom of the fifth inning and tuck the game away with a six run rally in the bottom of the sixth inning.
The Comets trailed 3-1 entering the bottom of the fourth inning inning that started with Medley getting on base with a walk. A hit by Meadows advanced Medley to third base and Meadows went to second base on a wild pitch to put runners on second base and third base. Cole walked to load the bases and set the stage for the rally.
A base hit to right field by Compton scored Medley to bring the Comets to within a run at 3-2. Milam hit into a fielder's choice in which Medley was forced out at second base. But, Meadows scored on the play, allowing the Comets to deadlock the contest.
With the Comets' designated hitter Chris Brewer at the plate, Cole scored on a passed ball to put the Comets up 4-3.
That left Milam at second base with one out and Milam stole third to get into scoring position with still only one out in the inning. And, with Brewer still at the plate, Milam scored on a wild pitch to put the Comets up 5-3.
Brewer walked, stole second base, and scored on a base hit by Nick Thompson to give the Comets a three run cushion. Thompson, however, was tagged out at second base in his attempt to stretch the base hit into a double.
The inning didn't stop there.
Moore reached base on an error by Dinwiddie's second baseman and stole second base. Michael Priest walked to put two runners on the sacks. The inning ended when Medley flied out to deep right field to end the inning.
Dinwiddie bounced right back, though, coming up with three big hits in the top of the fifth inning, two of them doubles, to plate three runs and deadlock the game at 6-6.
Dinwiddie opened the game by scoring three runs in the top of the first inning to take a 3-0 lead.
Comets hurler Scott Adams walked the leadoff batter and a bunt single by the second batter in the lineup put runners on first and second base. The third batter got on with a fielder's choice but the Comets got the runner going to second base on the ground ball, leaving runners on first and third.
Dinwiddie came up with three consecutive base hits after that, all in the gap between centerfield and right field to plate the three runs. The Comets finally squelched the Dinwiddie rally by getting the Generals' eighth batter of the inning to ground out to Cole, the Comets shortstop for the third out.
Halifax County answered with a run in the bottom of the third inning that cut its deficit to two runs at 3-1.
Thompson reached base with a two out single and stole second. Moore came up with a base hit that scored Thompson from second base. The Comets' rally was brief, however, as Michael Priest flied out to deep left field to end the inning.

Halifax County High School's girls soccer teams ran into a buzzsaw when they faced E.C. Glass here Wednesday night.
Glass blanked the Comets varsity team 8-0 in a contest that was stopped under a slaughter rule with 8:44 left in the game.
And, the Comets jayvees were beaten 5-0 by the E.C. Glass jayvees.
The loss left the Comets varsity team at 2-7 for the season. Halifax County's jayvee team is 1-3-1 for the season.
In the varsity game, E.C. Glass scored early and ran up a 6-0 lead on the Comets by the halftime break.
The Hilltoppers punched in a goal early in the second stanza and was held scoreless by the Comets for about 10 minutes before punching in the game ending goal with 8:44 left in the contest.
Comets varsity coach Sid Young said his team gave it a good effort.
"I can't complain about the effort," Young said.
"I think we had a very good effort, especially in the second half. Glass had to really earn their two goals in the second half."
Young said he changed his defensive tactics in the contest. However, the change seemed to have little effect.
"We went from a zone to a man-to-man," Young explained.
"We had only practiced it one time and the girls were not used to it. We just haven't worked with it enough."
Glass, Young said, was a very aggressive team.
"They were real aggressive," Young pointed out.
"There was some pushing and things going on that the officials didn't catch."
Young said he made a lineup change, moving Mary Catherine Thompson to goalie and taking goalie Lateisha Chambers to forward.
"I started Lateisha at forward due to her speed," Young explained.
"But, we never got a chance to capitalize on her speed. It worked in a couple of games when we put her there late in the game."
In the jayvee game, E.C. Glass did its damage in the first 15 minutes of both halves.
The Hilltoppers jayvees held a 3-0 edge on the Comets jayvees at the halftime break.
And, they added the final two goals in the first 15 minutes of the second half.
The Comets got 15 shots off at the goal but couldn't get one past the E.C. Glass goalie.
Morgan Young had five shots and Mary Caldwell had one shot that were either just wide of the goal or barely missed on the high side.
Ashley Slaff, Gina Guthrie and Kim Lowery were cited for good defensive play.
The Comets varsity and jayvee girls soccer teams will play their next contest here a week from today against Albemarle.

Robert 'Bobby' Carrington, age 69, of 910 College Street, South Boston, died April 18, 2000, at his home.
Mr. Carrington was born in Halifax County on December 7, 1930, the son of Fred Carrington and Vercie Carrington Rogers Owen and was formerly married to Willie Doris Braxton of Atlantic, City, N.J. He was a member of Ebenezer CME Church and a Korean War Army veteran. Survivors include one daughter, Barbara Diane Carrington of Atlantic City; one granddaughter, Shirley of Atlantic City; two grandsons, Arnold and Robert, both of Atlantic City; one sister and brother-in-law Frances and Charles Barnes of Richmond; two devoted cousins, Thomas Watkins of South Boston and Barbara Ross of Danville; and two devoted friends, Levi and Amelia Hamilton of South Boston.
Funeral services for Mr. Carrington will be held April 22 at 11 a.m. at Ebenezer CME Church with the Rev. John Ghee officiating. Burial will follow in Oak Ridge Cemetery.
The family will receive friends at the church following the service on Saturday.