
Virginia baseball completes sweep of N.C. State
The No. 11 Virginia baseball team finished off its first-ever three-game sweep of No. 16 NC State with a 6-3 victory Sunday (March 24) at Davenport Stadium.

The No. 11 Virginia baseball team finished off its first-ever three-game sweep of No. 16 NC State with a 6-3 victory Sunday (March 24) at Davenport Stadium.

James Madison took an early lead with six runs in the third and clinched the lopsided win with a five-run ninth to defeat George Mason 11-4 and even the Colonial Athletic Association baseball series at one game apiece on Saturday afternoon at Spuhler Field.

State Sen. Mark Herring will speak at a fundraising event being held by the Waynesboro Democratic Committee on Saturday.

Fifteen missed free throws. Seventeen turnovers. Virginia seemed hell-bent on proving the NCAA Tournament Selection Committee right in not giving the Cavs an at-large bid to the Big Dance. But then UVa. was able to pull it together enough down the stretch to pull away from a pesky Norfolk State team to win 67-56 Tuesday night in the first round of the NIT.

Nick O’Reilly had four goals and one assist, but it wasn’t enough as the No. 9 Virginia Cavaliers (5-3) dropped a Saturday afternoon meeting with the No. 12 Ohio State Buckeyes (5-1) inside Klöckner Stadium, 11-10. UVa’s three losses this season are by a combined three goals and each opponents’ game-winning goal has all come in either overtime, or in the final 1:31 of regulation.

P.J. Hairston suffered a nasty freak injury to his non-shooting left hand late in North Carolina’s 83-62 win over Florida State in the 2013 ACC Tournament quarterfinals Friday.

Second-seeded JMU overcame a difficult shooting performance and picked up a 59-48 victory over #7 Towson in the quarterfinals of the CAA Women’s Basketball Championship, presented by Jani-King, on Friday evening at The Show Place Arena.

Angela M. Smith, associate professor of philosophy at Washington and Lee University, has been named the first Roger Mudd Professor of Ethics and the first director of the University’s new Roger Mudd Center for Ethics.

Staunton City Manage Stephen F. Owen announced today the selection of Steven L. Rosenberg as assistant city manager. Rosenberg replaces James M. Halasz, who left Staunton to accept the position of Halifax County administrator last July.

By a 2-1 vote, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit today held that Virginia’s “Crimes Against Nature” statute, which criminalizes all acts of oral and anal sex (including private acts between consenting married and unmarried adults), is unconstitutional.
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