
Wrestling: Virginia downs SDSU, Grand Canyon at Gopher Duals
The Virginia wrestling team picked up a pair of wins on Saturday, going 2-1 at the Gopher Duals with wins over South Dakota State and Grand Canyon and a tight loss to No. 24 Minnesota.

The Virginia wrestling team picked up a pair of wins on Saturday, going 2-1 at the Gopher Duals with wins over South Dakota State and Grand Canyon and a tight loss to No. 24 Minnesota.

Two late fourth quarter touchdowns and a pair of interceptions helped Liberty rally for a 21-13 victory over visiting Presbyterian, Saturday afternoon, during Military Appreciation Day at Williams Stadium.

Kristen McNabb (Montville, N.J.) scored two goals on the night and top-ranked Virginia (16-1-1) netted five goals in the second half on the way to a 5-0 victory over No. 6 Clemson (13-4-1) at the ACC Championships on Friday.

Trailing with three bouts to go, the Virginia (1-0) wrestling team picked up victories in the final three contests to rally for a 25-14 victory at No. 25 North Dakota State (0-1) on Friday in the first dual meet of the season for both teams.

Emma Russell scored on a pass from Lies Lagerweij with 8:37 remaining in the first overtime period to give top-seeded Syracuse a 3-2 win over fourth-seeded Virginia in the first semifinal game of the 2015 ACC Field Hockey Championship.

Harrisonburg native and biology professor Kristine Grayson comes to Eastern Mennonite University to present a Suter Science Seminar on a common problem for the conservation and management of endangered populations.

During her sabbatical, Eastern Mennonite University English professor Marti Eads is studying how, in one author’s fiction, “the Civil War conflict reverberates in one Appalachian community even after most people there are no longer consciously aware of its relevance.”

Virginia has won four of its last five games with Miami, which considering UVA’s 13-31 ACC record in Mike London’s six seasons constitutes practical ownership of a series.

Virginia scored less than five minutes into the contest and added four more scores as the fourth-seeded Cavaliers defeated fifth-seeded Duke 5-1 in the first round of the 2015 ACC Field Hockey Championship in Charlottesville, Va.

And now the government is cracking down on bake sales. A couple years ago, First Lady Michelle Obama launched her Let’s Move campaign. Along with it, the President signed into law the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act. Both are targeted at reducing childhood obesity, a laudable goal indeed.
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