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Three pitchers combined to limit Longwood to five hits and JMU plated two unearned runs in the 10th inning to pull out a 6-4 win in a non-conference baseball game on Wednesday evening at Bolding Stadium.
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The Richmond Flying Squirrels (5-9) endured a rough final day of their week-long road trip, falling in the completion of Tuesday night’s suspended ballgame before also dropping the finale of a three-game set with the Altoona Curve (6-7) on Wednesday afternoon. After the Curve walked off with the win in game two of the series, they held off the Squirrels, 4-3, to claim the series win. The Squirrels limp home following the series, having gone just 1-6 on their first road trip of the season.
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The Nationals rallied for three runs off Henry Owens in the top of the fourth inning, enough offense to overcome Salem’s otherwise strong pitching in Potomac’s 4-2 victory on Wednesday at LewisGale Field. Owens struck out seven in five solid innings, but fell to 0-1 in the year because the Salem Red Sox offense could not generate much against Potomac’s pair of hardthrowing righties.
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Our newly minted senator from Virginia Tim Kaine made the best response I have heard to those who argue that the Second Amendment is an absolute right to own guns. As Senator Kaine wrote in an opinion column in the Virginian Pilot last week, “A Virginian, James Madison, drafted the Bill of Rights, and we in the Commonwealth believe strongly in the Second Amendment.
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Senior outfielder Colby Roberts (Benton, Ark./Benton) homered twice and drilled a game-winning three-run double in the ninth to lift JMU to an 8-6 baseball win at Radford that snapped an 11-game losing streak on Tuesday night at the RU Baseball Stadium.
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A close call came back to haunt the Lynchburg Hillcats in a 6-5 loss to the Frederick Keys tonight. Matt Lipka tied the game 5-5 in the fifth for the Hillcats with a two-run, bases loaded single that went about 330 feet before bouncing back into the field of play. The umpires said it hit off the top of the wall, while the Hillcats contested it bounced off the second wall and back (making it a home run). The play stood as called, and the Hillcats went on to lose by one, while Lipka and Cory Brownsten went stranded on the bases.
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The Virginia Commonwealth University Board of Visitors confronts an austere budget climate that could mean changes in how tuition is priced when it considers the 2013-2014 VCU spending plan for approval in May.
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The Trenton Thunder (7-3) completed a four-game sweep of the Richmond Flying Squirrels (4-7) with an emphatic, 15-1, win on Sunday afternoon at ARM & HAMMER Park. The loss for the Squirrels established a new franchise record for most lop-sided defeat and also extended Richmond’s losing streak to six games. That string matches the longest losing skid in the short history of the franchise as well.
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Gas prices continued their downward trend, with motorists in every state enjoying year-over-year price relief at the pump, including declines of more than 40 cents per gallon in some states. The national gas price average dropped to $3.56 Friday.
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Scott Silverstein (R-Sr., Olney, Md) allowed a run and two hits over seven strong innings as the fourth-ranked Virginia baseball team cruised to a 7-2 victory at No. 17 Georgia Tech Saturday afternoon at Russ Chandler Stadium in Atlanta. Silverstein (6-0) struck out nine and walked two in tying his career-long effort as UVa. (31-5, 13-4 ACC) evened the series at a game apiece.
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