UNC-Asheville continues mastery of Keydets

Chris Graham

A season-high crowd of 3,157 fans was on hand at Cameron Hall, but UNC Asheville continued to dominate in Lexington and walked away with a 100-87 victory over the VMI Keydets Saturday afternoon. With the win, UNC Asheville won its fourth straight game at Cameron Hall and salvaged a split in the regular season series….

Mason continues on roll

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For the third straight game the George Mason men’s basketball team pieced together a double-digit run spanning both halves, and it once again led to victory as the Patriots defeated William & Mary, 85-69, in Colonial Athletic Association action Saturday afternoon at Kaplan Arena. The win was the seventh straight for Mason (17-5, 9-2 CAA),…

Scott German: Terps sizzle, Cavs fizzle

Scott German

When the Virginia Cavaliers shoot the basketball well, they often find themselves in competitive games. When they don’t, then things can turn ugly. Very ugly. The latter being the case here Thursday evening as the visiting Maryland Terrapins capitalized on a horrendous shooting performance by Virginia to claim a 66-42 Atlantic Coast Conference win here…

Local JMU students recognized

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Below are lists of students from Augusta County, Staunton and Waynesboro who graduated, made president’s list or dean’s list during the fall 2010 semester at James Madison University. To qualify for the president’s list, a student must carry a semester course load of 12 graded credit hours or more and earn a GPA of 3.900…

Fund targets business sectors for growth

Chris Graham

The Staunton Creative Community Fund, a provider of loans and assistance to empower small businesses, is launching a new outreach campaign targeting emerging businesses with the potential to spawn new industries in the Shenandoah Valley and beyond. With Virginia’s unemployment rate in November remaining at nearly 7 percent for the third consecutive month with traditional…

Hokies dominate Terps, 74-57

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Erick Green scored a career-high 24 points to make Maryland pay for its attention on Malcolm Delaney, and Virginia Tech was able to hold the Terps’ Jordan Williams in check in posting a surprisingly easy 74-57 win at the Comcast Center on Thursday. Green was 12-of-16 from the field, and was equally dangerous in both…

Tribe downs Towson in CAA play

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The William and Mary men’s basketball team secured its first road victory of the year Wednesday night in convincing fashion, 83-68, over Towson. Led by freshman guard Julian Boatner’s freshman-record tying six 3-pointers, the Green and Gold shot 55.8 percent from the floor and 51.8 percent from 3-point range in rolling past the Tigers. The…

VCU takes down Georgia State

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It’s tough to find a better motivation technique than revenge. If anyone wants to question that statement, they should have been inside the Verizon Wireless Arena at the Stuart C. Siegel Center on Wednesday night. That’s where a tremendous defensive effort by the Virginia Commonwealth University men’s basketball resulted in a 71-54 throttling of Georgia…