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No. 4 Florida State outlasted the No. 5 Virginia baseball team 12-11 in 10 innings Sunday afternoon in front of 3,742 spectators at Davenport Field. The wild contest capped a fantastic weekend of baseball. All three games were decided by one run in extra innings, marking the first time in program history that UVa has…
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Junior third baseman Steven Proscia belted the game-winning hit, driving in John Hicks to lift the No. 5 Virginia Cavaliers (18-1, 4-0 ACC) to a 4-3 triumph over the No. 4 Florida State Seminoles (15-3, 3-1 ACC), Friday night, inside Davenport Field. The 11th inning started out with little fanfare, as Florida State’s reliever Daniel…
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The ninth-ranked James Madison women’s lacrosse team scored five unanswered goals in the first half en route to a 10-5 win over No. 15 Princeton Wednesday evening at the JMU Lacrosse Complex. The Dukes remained unbeaten as they improved to 5-0, while Princeton dropped to 3-1.
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We can either pay now or we can pay more, later. For once I concur with a spending bill that hit Gov. Bob McDonnell’s desk before the legislative session crosses the finish line. This is the just over $18 million price tag to more than double the amount of time Fairfax County elementary school students…
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John Hicks (Jr., Sandy Hook, Va.) singled in the go-ahead run with two out in the ninth inning to lift No. 6 Virginia to an 8-7 win over No. 4 Clemson Saturday afternoon at Doug Kingsmore Stadium in Clemson, S.C. After squandering a three-run lead, Virginia (15-1, 2-0 ACC) then rallied from a three-run deficit…
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The eighth-ranked Virginia baseball team won a pair of games Friday, downing Cornell 12-1 before shutting out Rider 12-0 in the nightcap at Davenport Field. Virginia improved to 10-1 with the victories. Virginia will play two more games Saturday, taking on Rider at 11 a.m. and Cornell at 2 p.m. Cornell and Rider will square…
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With adult supervision being restored in the governor’s mansions in Madison, Wisc.I, Columbus, Ohio, Richmond, Va. and Trenton, N.J., the GOP is keeping its promises of cutting budgets – and not with a scalpel, but with the necessary hacksaw. In abject cowardice, Wisconsin’s 14 Democratic state senators fled the Dairy State to shun their jobs,…
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John Barr (Sr., Ivyland, Pa.) hit a two-out RBI double to score the go-ahead run in the eighth inning as the No. 10 Virginia baseball team picked up a 4-3 victory over VMI Wednesday afternoon in the 2011 home opener at Davenport Field. While the game was played on a chilly, cloudy afternoon, the game…
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Danny Hultzen (Jr., Bethesda, Md.) pitched 6.2 innings of one-run baseball and added a pair of run-scoring hits, while David Coleman (Sr., Richmond, Va.) chipped in three hits as the No. 13 Virginia baseball team opened its season with a 6-4 win over UAB Friday afternoon in the Auburn Tournament, held at Plainsman Park in…
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As Americans prepare to celebrate and commemorate the life of one of our greatest and most popular presidents, Ronald Wilson Reagan, I am reminded of something said by the current White House occupant. In Tucson he called for a return to civility. That said, I harkened back to when President Reagan could criticize specific policy…
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