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The expectations game. Seniors Kris Burd and Chase Minnifield expect the 2011 UVa. football team to go bowling at the end of the season. The news media doesn’t expect as much, slotting Virginia fifth in the six-team ACC Coastal Division. Coach Mike London has his own expectations. Year two going into it, you’re looking for…
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The Potomac Nationals supported a solid start from Cameron Selik with six runs on eleven hits on Sunday night in Winston-Salem to salvage the series finale 6-3. Jeff Kobernus and Destin Hood contributed three hits apiece, Steven Souza drove in a pair of runs and a pair of bullpen arms shut down the Dash to…
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Lynchburg scored first and last, but the Red Sox rallied for enough offense in between to emerge victorious for the third straight night, garnering a 6-4 triumph in front of a season-high crowd of 5,544 at LewisGale Field on Friday night. Five different Sox drove in runs for Salem in a pair of three-run innings,…
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Outside it was beautiful. It was one of those clear sunny days in summer. Tourists were on every street corner. From my table I could see yachts slowly moving into the Washington Channel to go sailing out on to the Potomac River and maybe down to the Chesapeake Bay. Our Nation’s Capital never looked better….
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Brian Peacock’s pinch-hit double in the ninth inning broke a 9-9 tie, capped a stirring comeback and put the Nationals ahead for the first time in a game they once trailed 8-1 and eventually held on to win 11-10 on Monday night in Lynchburg. In the end, Destin Hood’s sacrifice fly later in the ninth…
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A six-run eighth inning lifted Potomac to a 9-5 win over Frederick on Wednesday night at Harry Grove Stadium. The P-Nats (8-6) trailed 4-3 entering the inning, but quickly put a rally together. With one down, catcher Sandy Leon and right fielder J.R. Higley hit back-to-back doubles to put runners at second and third. Keys…
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Dr. James McClintock, a renowned University of Alabama-Birmingham marine biologist who has conducted research in Antarctica for more than 25 years, told me the following story. “You work in a scientific lab in the quietest place on Earth — Antarctica. “There’s a Crack! Boom! “You rush to the window of your remote lab with a…
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Derrik Gibson pounded three hits—including an RBI double in the last of the seventh that broke a 2-2 tie—to lead the Red Sox past the Blue Rocks 3-2 on Wednesday night at LewisGale Field, giving Salem its fourth straight victory. After beginning the second half with five straight losses, the red-hot Red Sox have won…
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Salem capitalized on two Winston-Salem errors in the first inning and held on for yet another slim victory, 3-2 over the Dash in the series finale at BB&T Ballpark on Tuesday night. The Sox won for the third consecutive day, the first time since May 5-7 that Salem has accomplished that feat. Winston entered the…
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Lynchburg hitters recorded 12 hits on Tuesday night, but left 12 runners on base, as they fell to the Myrtle Beach Pelicans 6-4 to end the homestand. The Hillcats scored first in the bottom of the second inning. Shawn McGill hit a solo home run to left-center field, his fourth of the season, and the…
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