
UVa. coach Tony Bennett named ACC Coach of the Year
Fifth-year UVa. head coach Tony Bennett was named 2013-14 Atlantic Coast Conference Coach of the Year, announced Tuesday (March 11) by the Atlantic Coast Sports Media Association.

Fifth-year UVa. head coach Tony Bennett was named 2013-14 Atlantic Coast Conference Coach of the Year, announced Tuesday (March 11) by the Atlantic Coast Sports Media Association.

Towson scored a tournament-record 39 points off free throws as JMU fell 80-71 in the quarterfinal round of the Colonial Athletic Association Men’s Basketball Championship Saturday night in the Baltimore Arena.

The No. 1-ranked UVa. baseball team opened ACC play Saturday with a doubleheader split at Duke at Jack Coombs Field in Durham, N.C. The Cavaliers (10-3, 1-1 ACC) took game one, 3-2, before the Blue Devils (8-6, 1-1) rebounded to take the nightcap by the same count.

Gov. Terry McAuliffe today announced the launch of Commonwealth Coordinated Care (CCC), a program that will blend and coordinate Medicare and Medicaid benefits for approximately 78,000 eligible Virginians.

North Carolina’s Marcus Paige, a second-team CoSIDA Academic All-America selection, Virginia Tech’s Jarell Eddie, a three-time All-ACC Academic honoree and Duke’s Jabari Parker, a nine-time ACC Freshman of the Week selection, headline the 2014 All-Atlantic Coast Conference Academic Men’s Basketball team.

Senior guard Kirby Burkholder (Bridgewater, Va./Turner Ashby) scored 30 points, including a career-high eight 3-pointers to lead the JMU women’s basketball team to an 86-49 win over Northeastern at the Cabot Center in Boston, Wednesday.

James Pannell scored a career-high seven goals and Mark Cockerton tied a career high with seven points as the No. 4 Virginia Cavaliers (6-0, 1-0 ACC) pulled away from the No. 8 Syracuse Orange (2-2, 0-2 ACC) for a 17-12 triumph on Saturday.

With the huge UVa.-Syracuse showdown looming, it seems a good time to look back at the biggest home games played in Charlottesville since Ralph Sampson played his last game in University Hall in 1983.

The JMU women’s basketball suffered its first loss in Colonial Athletic Association play, falling 85-78 to Charleston at TD Arena on Thursday morning. The loss snapped the Dukes’ 13-game win-streak.

A Drake Inc. employee is charged with the murder of a coworker who was found dead at the 1300 Hopeman Parkway business this morning, Waynesboro Police said.
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