Virginia Living’s second annual Best of Virginia issue is now on newsstands. The statewide guide to all that is ‘best’ in Virginia from dining to shopping to doing, Best of Virginia 2013 lists the more than 1,200 winners from Virginia Living’s second annual Best of Virginia Readers’ Survey conducted in January. More than 25,000 votes were cast in 400 categories covering the best in arts, culture and entertainment, living and recreation, shopping and services, and food and drink across the state.
The Lynchburg Hillcats scored four runs in the first and four in the sixth to take Sunday’s rubber match, 9-4, over the Wilmington Blue Rocks. Matt Lipka led off the Hillcats offensive ballgame with a home run and David Rohm had three hits, falling a home run shy of the cycle, in the win. Jarett Miller picked up his third win in as many starts since joining the rotation.
Fair or unfair, the growing scandal involving Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell involving a former Governor’s Mansion chef facing criminal charges and political contributor now under investigation by the Securities Exchange Commission is not going to go away, maybe ever.
Mark Tracy blasted a pair of home runs as the Winston-Salem Dash crushed the Salem Red Sox 10-1 in Friday’s series opener at BB&T Ballpark. With three big innings, Winston-Salem registered the rout, sending Salem to its fourth consecutive loss. Dash starter Chris Bassitt stymied the Sox during his sensational 90-pitch, seven-inning performance, while the visitors took one on the chin after arriving to town around 7 AM that morning following Thursday’s overnight bus ride from Wilmington.
The Lynchburg Hillcats didn’t give up a hit until the eighth inning, when the Wilmington Blue Rocks used two hits to push a run across that proved to be the difference in a 1-0 final. James Hoyt did not allow a hit through six innings, facing just one over the minimum. It was his first start of the season and second of his career.
One week after the Salem Red Sox won three straight at home to take three out of four from the Blue Rocks, Wilminigton returned the favor at Frawley Stadium. On this evening, Salem’s four-run lead disappeared with two outs in the last of the sixth, and Wilmington took its first lead of the game in the bottom of the 11th, when Jorge Bonifacio’s sacrifice fly to right brought home Justin Trapp to give the Blue Rocks a 7-6 victory.
U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., was in Waynesboro on Thursday to meet with city leaders to discuss economic development in Waynesboro. Kaine met with City Councilman Tim Williams, City Manager Mike Hamp and Assistant City Manager Jim Shaw to discuss several ongoing development projects in the River City. Kaine then toured Downtown Waynesboro to learn more about the work on the Center for Coldwaters Restoration and to meet with several owntown business owners.
Timothy Higgins, Andrew Andreae and Jessica Ungerleider, representing the University of Virginia, won the Capital One Grand Prize today at the Governor’s Business Plan Challenge. In recognition of Virginia’s strong entrepreneurial environment, the statewide challenge, co-hosted by Work It, Richmond, featured the best business plans or concepts crafted by undergraduate students this year.
Mark Pope gave up nine runs, and the Lynchburg Hillcats pitching staff allowed a season-high 20 hits in a 15-6 loss to the Winston-Salem Dash Wednesday night. It’s the highest single-game hit total allowed by a team in the Carolina League this season. Ross Heffley hit his first home run of the year for Lynchburg and drove in three runs to pace the Hillcats offense.
The Lynchburg Hillcats bullpen, which entered Tuesday with a 2.27 ERA, gave up four runs over the last four innings, but the Hillcats were able to hold on for an 8-6 win over the Winston-Salem Dash. Tommy La Stella hit his first home run of the year and scored three runs while Hillcats starter Jarrett Miller went five innings to get his second win in as many starts.
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