VCU falls in season finale
After a scoreless 4 1/2 innings, VCU and UNC Wilmington combined to plate 15 runs during the final five frames, including a pair of key UNCW homers, and the Seahawks held on to defeat the Rams 9-7 Saturday afternoon in the finale of a three-game Colonial Athletic Association series at Brooks Field.
Andrew Cain hit a three-run shot to put the Seahawks in front 3-0 in the fifth and a two-run blast by Matt Campbell allowed UNC Wilmington to regain the lead in the eighth. VCU pulled within two in the top of the ninth and sent the go-ahead run to the plate, but the Seahawks closed the door and held on to win the series. Read more
Final Four-bound: UVa. men's lacrosse upsets #2 Cornell
Sean M. Gates - UVa Athletics Media Relations
Behind seven points by Steele Stanwick, the No. 7 seeded Virginia Cavaliers (11-5) stormed past the No. 2 seeded Cornell Big Red (14-3) in the quarterfinal round of the NCAA Tournament, 13-9, in front of 13,447 fans inside Hofstra’s James M. Shuart Stadium. The win gives Virginia head coach Dom Starsia 327 career victories, passing coaching legend Jack Emmer for the most head coaching wins at the Division I level.
UVa advances to its fourth straight Final Four weekend at Baltimore’s M&T Bank Stadium and will play No. 6 seed Denver on Saturday. The Pioneers defeated No. 3 seed Johns Hopkins on Saturday, 14-9, to advance. Game time will be announced at a later time and the contest will be televised in HD on ESPN2. Read more
George Mason loses swingman to transfer
Sophomore guard/forward Luke Hancock has elected to transfer from George Mason University and will forego his final two seasons with the Patriots. Hancock, a two-year member of the team, plans to enroll at the University of Louisville.
Hancock appeared in 65 games during his career in Fairfax, earning All-Colonial Athletic Association third team honors this past season. The Roanoke, Va., native led the team and ranked third in the CAA in assists (143), while scoring 10.9 points per game, third-highest among the Patriots. Read more
Reality check for UVa. baseball
Still-for-the-moment #1 Virginia is probably the most wounded 45-9 team in college-baseball history.
Consider:
- Friday-night starter Danny Hultzen has lost three of his last four after starting the year 8-0 and starting his UVa. career 28-2.
- Total run support for Hultzen in the three losses (to N.C. State, Miami and UNC): 5. Read more
#13 UNC clinches series with 2-1 win over #1 UVa., Hultzen
No. 13 North Carolina scratched across two runs in the eighth inning to rally and defeat the No. 1-ranked Virginia baseball team, 2-1, on Friday night at Boshamer Stadium. UNC (43-12, 19-10) clinched the series, marking the Cavaliers’ first series loss this season and breaking a streak of 15 straight ACC series wins, dating to 2010.
Despite the defeat Virginia (45-8, 22-7 ACC) clinched a share of its second-consecutive ACC Coastal Division championship as well as the No. 1 seed in the ACC Baseball Championship next week. Virginia Tech topped Georgia Tech, 7-5, Friday evening. If UVa and Georgia Tech finish tied in the standings, the Cavaliers hold the tiebreaker for the No. 1 seed based on their series win over the Yellow Jackets in April in Atlanta. Read more
Chris Graham joins ‘Baseball in the Valley’ podcast
Chris Graham was a guest on the debut installment of “Baseball in the Valley,” a podcast hosted by Austin Gisriel covering Valley League Baseball.
“Baseball in the Valley” is broadcast live on Blog Talk Radio on Thursdays at 6 p.m. You can access archived podcasts at www.blogtalkradio.com/seamheads .
Graham, play-by-play broadcaster for the Waynesboro Generals, will be a regular guest on the summer podcast series.
Gisriel is the author of A Season in the Valley, a book chronicling a season behind the scenes with the Valley League’s New Market Rebels. A Season in the Valley was published in 2010 by Augusta Free Press Publishing.
The 2011 Valley League season begins Thursday, June 2. The Generals open play on Friday, June 3, on the road at Rockbridge. Waynesboro’s home opener is Saturday, June 4, against Covington.
More information about the Generals is online at www.WaynesboroGenerals.com.
City police joining Click It or Ticket patrols
Waynesboro Police will join local and national law enforcement officers and highway safety advocates all across Virginia and the country for the 2011 national Click It or Ticket seat belt enforcement mobilization that begins Sunday, May 22.
During the mobilization, which runs through June 6, law enforcement throughout the Commonwealth will be cracking down on motorists who fail to obey all traffic laws – including seat belt and child safety seat use.
Virginia has seen a steady decline in traffic related fatalities in recent years, but even with the decline, preliminary data from 2010 indicates that there were a total of 740 fatalities, and of those, 314 were not restrained at the time of the crash. Two of the three fatalities occurring in the city of Waynesboro during 2010 were unrestrained and at least partially ejected during rollovers.
Pickup truck occupants have been proven to be less likely to buckle up than any other class of vehicle. In a 2010 Seat Belt Use Observational Survey conducted by Old Dominion University, the average seat belt use rate of pickup truck occupants was 71.4 percent as compared to the state use rate of 80.5 percent
“We need to continue to make the case that seat belts really do work,” said Waynesboro Police Sgt. Kelly Walker.”We will do that by hitting the roads and enforcing all traffic laws 24/7, no excuses, no warnings, and we will be paying particular attention to unrestrained drivers, passengers and children.
Concert to raise funds for WMHS student group
On June 20 a group of five high-school students from Wilson Memorial High School will be going on trip to Spain. Barcelona or Bust is a concert being held Friday night at 7 p.m. in what is known as the school’s old gym as a fundraiser for the trip.
The cost will be $5 per person for attendance and can be purchased at the door. The will be food, drinks, and lots of dancing.
The bands scheduled to play are Good Will Thrifty, Voyage, Paradox, Los Maestros, and Scruffy Murphy. All of these groups are either student bands or teacher bands. The event is sure to be the greatest rock concert Wilson has ever seen! Come if you want to support the students and teachers participating. It’s sure to be a fun night.
For more information on Scruffy Murphy, visit http://scruffymurphyband.com/About_Scruffy.htm.
For more information on the event, visit www.augusta.k12.va.us/wilsonmemorialhs/site/default.asp.
Story by Suzi Foltz
Sports Roundup: #1 ‘Hoos lose at UNC
#13 UNC blanks #1 UVa.
No. 13 North Carolina scored five times in the sixth inning to break open a scoreless game on its way to a 6-0 win over the No. 1-ranked Virginia baseball team Thursday night at Boshamer Stadium. UVa (45-7, 22-6 ACC) was shut out for the first time this season and the first time in the regular season since April 27, 2008 at Miami (167 regular-season games).
UNC starter Patrick Johnson (10-1) dominated the Cavaliers, allowing just four singles and no walks in a complete-game effort. He retired the final 15 batters and finished with nine strikeouts. Read more
Wilmington edges VCU
VCU rallied from a run down to tie the score twice during the first six innings but a bases loaded walk eventually gave UNC Wilmington the lead for good in the eighth, and the Seahawks held on to defeat the Rams, 3-2, Thursday evening in the opener of a three-game Colonial Athletic Association series at Brooks Field.
VCU drops its third straight and slips to 21-31 overall with an 11-17 mark in CAA play. UNC Wilmington, which improves to 29-25, 17-11, moves a step closer to clinching a spot in next week’s four-team CAA Tournament. Read more
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Chris Graham: President Kucinich?
Posted on May 20, 2011 · Leave a Comment
I say that, and there go the thousands of reads that we get on our poll stories, but oh, well. It’s the truth. Who’d have guessed at this time in the 2008 cycle that Barack Obama would have ended up getting the most votes by a Democratic presidential nominee since Lyndon Johnson? Come on. In May 2007? No way.
Ok, that said … polls, no matter how worthless at this time of year, are still loads of fun.
Case in point: Public Policy Polling and its let’s have some fun poll this week. PPP decided to test Donald Trump against a Democrat that you’d have to assume that even Trump could beat in a hypothetical head-to-head 2012 matchup. That’s right, perennial Democratic Party presidential-nomination early dropout Dennis Kucinich, he with such pull that he couldn’t even keep himself from being gerrymandered out of his congressional seat after the Census.
Apparently, though, Kucinich has more pull than The Donald, at least according to PPP, which this week would have Kucinich leading Trump in a 2012 matchup by a 40 percent-to-36 percent margin.
Any wonder why Trump dropped out of the GOP presidential race that he never really formally entered? Yeah. The Ron Paul of the Left cleans his clock.
Which leads us to some bad news for Sarah Palin. Yep, PPP tested her against Kucinich as well, and you’re not going to believe it, but she actually tested worse. Kucinich would lead Palin 43 percent to 36 percent in their 2012 matchup, taking independents by 10 percentage points.
(Repeat after me: Yikes!)
Seems that Mrs. Palin and Mr. Trump are right at home on reality TV. And that maybe Mr. Kucinich is a breakout reality star once his career in Congress comes to an end.
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