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Georgia State put four players in double figures and went 17-for-17 on free throws in the second half to stave off James Madison’s rally attempt for a 66-62 decision in a Colonial Athletic Association men’s basketball game on Saturday afternoon at the JMU Convocation Center.
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Mark Cockerton scored five goals and the No. 6 Virginia Cavaliers (3-0) outlasted the Stony Brook Seawolves (1-2) on Saturday afternoon at Kenneth P. LaValle Stadium. UVa. held a narrow one-goal lead going into the intermission, 6-5, but the Cavalier defense clamped and limited Stony Brook to only four shots in the second half.
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JMU stayed in second place in the Colonial Athletic Association women’s basketball standings with a 79-45 win over Towson Thursday evening at the JMU Convocation Center.
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The VMI Keydets put the tying and go-ahead runs on base in the ninth inning, but could not complete the rally by getting them home as the Richmond Spiders hung on for a dramatic 5-4 win in NCAA baseball action Wednesday night at Richmond’s Pitt Field.
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The Waynesboro Cultural Commission announces its 2013 Writers’ series, an annual schedule of workshops designed to allow area writers to explore different literary genres. In response to great public interest, all the workshops will include two sessions in order to present more information to writers who attend. Writers of every level are invited to the workshops, and all are presented free of charge as a service to Waynesboro’s writers.
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Stan Okoye had 22 points, making him the fifth VMI player to exceed 2,000 career points, but the High Point Panthers shot 69.2% from the field in the second half and clinched the Big South North Division title, 78-67, Tuesday evening at Cameron Hall.
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Trey Oest (Fr., Dover, Fla.) pitched six shutout innings in his college debut and Brandon Downes (So., South Plainfield, N.J.) went 3-for-4 with a home run as the No. 25 UVa. baseball team defeated Saint Peter’s, 9-1, Monday afternoon in the Cavaliers’ home opener at Davenport Field.
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A package of Republican-sponsored bills will institute roadblocks and obstacles to voting for hundreds of thousands of Virginians, a group of House and Senate Democrats said in a Monday press conference.
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Eleven seconds into the first overtime period, Virginia’s Matt White scored his second career overtime goal off a feed from Nick O’Reilly to give the Cavalier men’s lacrosse team (1-0) a 13-12 win over Drexel (0-1) on a blistery Saturday afternoon at Klöckner Stadium. White’s other career overtime goal came against Bucknell in the 2011 NCAA Tournament. Saturday’s win gives UVa its sixth consecutive season-opening win over the Dragons.
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The No. 25 UVa. baseball team scored 13 runs over the last four innings to rally and knock off East Carolina, 13-9, Saturday on a cold, blustery day at Clark-LeClair Stadium in Greenville, N.C. The Cavaliers (2-0) trailed 4-0 after five innings before scoring the next 13 runs of the game.
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