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Jordan Tarsovich and Eric Mayers homered and the VMI bullpen held the High Point Panthers to three hits over the final 4 1/3 innings, helping the Keydets down High Point 4-3 in Big South baseball action Saturday in High Point, N.C.
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Sam Wolff and Cody Ege faced just four batters over the minimum and the Myrtle Beach offense provided single tallies in three separate innings to lead the Pelicans to a 3-0 blanking of the Salem Red Sox on Saturday night at LewisGale Field.
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James Pannell scored three goals as 13 Cavaliers scored at least one point, but it wasn’t enough as No. 8 UVa. (8-5, 1-4 ACC) fell in a shootout to the No. 2 Duke Blue Devils (10-2, 4-1 ACC) on Friday night, 17-15, inside Klöckner Stadium.
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Attorney General Mark R. Herring today filed the Commonwealth of Virginia’s brief in the appeal of Bostic v. Rainey in the Fourth Circuit. In it, the Commonwealth explains the reasons Norfolk federal district Judge Arenda Wright Allen ruled correctly in concurring with Attorney General Herring’s conclusion that Virginia’s ban on same sex marriage is unconstitutional.
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Attorney General Mark R. Herring today announced that he has filed an amicus brief to protect Virginia’s efforts to restore the Chesapeake Bay and to defend the right of Virginia and other Bay states to work together to protect and restore the Bay.
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Left fielder Patrick Marshall went 4-for-4 with four RBIs and Radford took control with a five-run third inning for a 9-3 lead before recording a 14-5 victory over JMU in a non-conference baseball game on Wednesday evening at the RU Baseball Stadium.
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While Jake Peavy enjoyed a superb start at Fenway Park this afternoon, one of the prospects that Boston parted with to obtain the big league arm helped end Salem’s historic streak on Wednesday evening at LewisGale Field.
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University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers studying a potentially deadly parasitic infection have discovered an unknown ways that human cells are killed, with the parasitic amoeba essentially nibbling cells to death as a piranha might attack its prey.
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The Salem Red Sox won their 16th straight game on Tuesday night, matching the greatest winning streak in the history of the Carolina League, by narrowly holding on to defeat the Winston-Salem Dash 12-11 in the home opener at LewisGale Field.
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UVa. guard Malcolm Brogdon (Atlanta, Ga.) has been selected as Player of the Year and head coach Tony Bennett was named Coach of the Year in the annual voting by the Virginia Sports Information Directors Association (VaSID) for the 2014 University Division All-State Men’s Basketball Team, announced Tuesday (April 8).
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