
St. John’s rallies, tops JMU baseball, 7-5
St. John’s plated four runs in the eighth to rally past JMU for a 7-5 victory on Saturday in the second game of a non-conference baseball series at Kaiser Stadium.

St. John’s plated four runs in the eighth to rally past JMU for a 7-5 victory on Saturday in the second game of a non-conference baseball series at Kaiser Stadium.

The No. 3 UVa. baseball team heads to No. 25 Miami Saturday through Monday (March 22-24) for a three-game ACC series. The teams will play three 7 p.m. games at Alex Rodriguez Park in Coral Gables, Fla.

No. 1 seed UVa. (28-6) will play No. 16 seed Coastal Carolina (21-12) in the second round of the NCAA Tournament on Friday, March 21. Tipoff at PNC Arena (19,700) is set for approximately 9:25 p.m.

The No. 14 Virginia women’s lacrosse team (4-5, 0-2 ACC) defeated James Madison (4-4, 0-0 CAA) 12-10 on Wednesday (March 19) at University Hall Turf Field in Charlottesville, Va.

Gov. Terry McAuliffe announced today that the Richmond Ballet, The State Ballet of Virginia, has accepted an invitation to perform at the 15th annual ‘Meet in Beijing’ Arts Festival in Beijing, China at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in May 2015.

Our Founders crafted a Constitution with limited and enumerated powers for each of the three branches of government. Unfortunately, the executive branch has undertaken actions that reach far beyond the powers granted to it. Our Constitution prohibits the executive branch from choosing which laws it will enforce, yet these constitutional limits are being expressly ignored to the point where this Administration has effectively made law without congressional consent.

The third-ranked UVa. baseball team will play host to Towson at 4 p.m. Wednesday at Davenport Field. The game remains scheduled to be played in Charlottesville despite the storm earlier this week.

Gas prices at the pump continue to climb upward during an annual upswing motorists have come to expect. The national gas price average topped $3.50 per gallon on Thursday for the first time in nearly six months.

Attorney General Mark R. Herring has launched a two week public safety tour of Virginia in which he will hold 22 regional meetings to hear from local public safety and law enforcement leaders and local elected officials about challenges in their area and ways that he can help protect our communities.

Quotes from coaches and players at Duke and UVa. after UVa.’s 72-63 win over the Blue Devils in the 2014 ACC Tournament Championship Game.
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