
VMI baseball extends winning streak to five
Every starter for the VMI Keydets had at least one hit, sending their team to a 9-3 win over the Gardner-Webb Runnin’ Bulldogs in Big South baseball action Friday night in Boiling Springs, N.C.

Every starter for the VMI Keydets had at least one hit, sending their team to a 9-3 win over the Gardner-Webb Runnin’ Bulldogs in Big South baseball action Friday night in Boiling Springs, N.C.

Everybody and their president had Michigan State as national champs when the brackets were announced two weeks ago. The fourth-seeded Spartans wouldn’t even consider the top-seed UVa. a road bump along the way. The entirety of the NCAA Tournament was a coronation of the preseason favorite who spent three weeks at the top of the national polls before a slew of injuries knocked Sparty down a few pegs.

Postgame notes and the transcript from the press conference with UVa. coach Tony Bennett and players Joe Harris, AKil Mitchell and Malcolm Brogdon.

Sparked by Rodney Glasgow’s 30 points, the VMI Keydets rallied from a 17-point first half deficit and went on to defeat the Ohio Bobcats, 92-90, in the quarterfinals of the CollegeInsider.com Tournament (CIT) Wednesday night in Athens, Ohio.

Although the terms “minimum wage” and “living wage” are sometimes used interchangeably, their meanings are quite different. A minimum wage is the lowest a business can legally pay. A living wage is what its workers need to meet their families’ basic needs – to stave off the choice between a gallon of gas and a gallon of milk.

Senior guard Kirby Burkholder (Bridgewater, Va./Turner Ashby) finished with 20 points and 10 rebounds as the JMU women’s basketball season came to a close with a 85-69 loss at Texas A&M at Reed Arena in College Station, Texas, Tuesday.

Ryan Lukacovic scored a career-high nine points and Joe French added a career-high six more points as the No. 8 UVa. Cavaliers (8-2) cruised to a 21-3 victory Monday night at Klöckner Stadium over the VMI Keydets (1-9).

Gov. Terry McAuliffe released the following statement today following a vote by the House Appropriations Committee to “pass by indefinitely” his introduced budget, which closes the health care coverage gap and invests in Virginia state employees, teachers, sheriffs, first responders and a host of other core priorities:

Today, after Gov. Terry McAuliffe proposed his biennial budget that used $225 million of savings from accepting federal funds to close the coverage gap to provide a 2% pay increase for state employees, investments in the Virginia Retirement System, and Line of Duty funding, House Republicans can’t even get their ducks in a row to pass a joint resolution to move forward with the budget.

Postgame press conference from UVa.’s third-round NCAA Tournament win over Memphis with coach Tony Bennett and players Mike Tobey and Malcolm Brogdon.
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