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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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The Richmond Flying Squirrels (4-4) rallied out of a substantial hole for the second straight day, only to fall in 11 innings, 6-5, to the Trenton Thunder (4-3) on Thursday night at ARM & HAMMER PARK.
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The Richmond Flying Squirrels (4-3) climbed out of an early hole only to fall late, 7-6, to the Bowie Baysox (3-4) on Wednesday afternoon at The Diamond. The Baysox rallied for two runs and the series win in the ninth inning.
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A tractor-trailer crash on Interstate 64 has closed all eastbound lanes at mile marker 97.5 on Afton Mountain in Augusta County. This location is between exit 96 at Route 624 in the Lyndhurst area and exit 99 at Route 250 on Afton Mountain.
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Joe McCarthy (Fr., Scranton, Pa.) homered twice as part of a four-hit day and Nick Howard (So., Olney, Md.) did not allow an earned run over 7 1/3 innings as the fourth-ranked Virginia baseball team recorded a 9-7 win over Wake Forest Monday evening at Gene Hooks Field at Wake Forest Baseball Park. The Cavaliers (30-3, 12-3 ACC) finished off a three-game series sweep and now have won 11 straight games against Wake Forest (17-17, 4-11), dating to 2008.
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Gov. Bob McDonnell, several cabinet secretaries and a team of Virginia economic development officials will embark Wednesday, April 10 on a 16-day job creation and economic development marketing mission to Los Angeles, San Francisco, China and Japan before concluding on April 26.
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The fourth-ranked Virginia baseball team got a two-out, two-run home run from Reed Gragnani (Sr., Richmond, Va.) in the eighth inning to break a tie game and lift the Cavaliers to an 8-6 win over Wake Forest Sunday afternoon at Gene Hooks Field at Wake Forest Baseball Park. The blast was the first home run in 130 career games for Gragnani.
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The VCU Rams scored twice in the third inning to take the lead for good, and then broke open a close game with a four-run ninth en route to an 8-4 win over the VMI Keydets Sunday afternoon at Gray-Minor Stadium in Lexington, Va. The contest was the finale of a three-game series between the clubs, won by VMI two games to one.
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