Dec. 5, 2007

Greensboro, Ga. - This past spring, Virginia Tech head coach Frank Beamer and Hokie alumnus and former NBA-star Dell Curry carded a 10-under 62 to edge San Diego State head coach Chuck Long and SDSU alum and former NFL pro-bowler Marshall Faulk by one stroke in the inaugural Chick-fil-A Bowl Alma Mater at Reynolds Plantation. Wake Forest's team of football head coach Jim Grobe and celebrity alumnus and CBS Sports basketball analyst Billy Packer finished third, five strokes back.

The Chick-fil-A Bowl Alma Mater is a golf event featuring NCAA head coaches and celebrity alumni from the same schools competing for $275,000 in scholarship money. The event was taped by CBS and will be nationally broadcast as a two-hour special on Christmas Day from 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. PT.

For more information on the Chick-fil-A Bowl Alma Mater, including 2008 tournament details, visit www.chick-fil-abowlalmamater.com.

"I hit a few good shots and Dell hit a lot of great shots," said Beamer. "This was a great field and The Oconee Course is a beautiful place. What a first-class event! Anything the Chick-fil-A Bowl is doing, I want to be involved in."

The Hokie team birdied four of their last nine holes and dodged a 35-foot birdie attempt on 18 by Marshall Faulk - that would have forced a playoff - to win the title.

"We had a great round and a lot of fun," Curry said. "You put Frank and me together and we make one pretty good golfer."

Beamer and Curry's win earned the $100,000 first-place prize that, at their request, was donated to the Hokie Spirit Memorial Fund to aid the families of the April 16 massacre on the Virginia Tech campus.