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Shenandoah National Park Fire Managers plan to burn 500 acres sometime between Wednesday April 4 and April 20, weather permitting. The area is in the park’s south district, west of Jarman Gap and northeast of Waynesboro. A prescribed burn is a planned fire. A prescription is a set of conditions that considers the safety of…
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The Virginia baseball team rallied from a 2-0 deficit in the seventh inning to claim a 5-2 victory at No. 9 NC State Saturday at Doak Field at Dail Park in Raleigh, N.C. Derek Fisher (Fr., Rexmont, Pa.) hit the game-tying two-run home run in the seventh inning, and Chris Taylor (Jr., Virginia Beach, Va.)…
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Derek Fisher (Fr., Rexmont, Pa.) went 4-for-6 with a grand slam and seven RBI as the Virginia baseball team won its sixth-consecutive game with a 19-5 triumph over Towson Wednesday evening at Davenport Field. Virginia (17-8-1) posted season highs in runs and hits (19) and scored in seven of its eight trips to the plate….
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The Virginia baseball finished off a three-game series sweep of Clemson Sunday afternoon with a 5-3 victory over the Tigers at Davenport Field. Virginia (15-8-1, 5-4 ACC) swept the Tigers for the second-consecutive year and now has won seven straight against Clemson. Virginia starting pitcher Artie Lewicki (So., Wyckoff, N.J.) worked a career-high 6.0 innings…
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The Duke Blue Devils completed a three-game sweep of Virginia Tech with a 5-3 win over the Hokies on Sunday afternoon at English Field. It is the first ACC sweep for head coach Sean McNally and the first conference sweep for the Blue Devils since 2004. Duke’s last conference sweep came back in 2004, when…
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Branden Kline (Jr., Frederick, Md.) fired a complete-game, two-hit gem to lead the Virginia baseball team to a 5-1 victory over Clemson Saturday afternoon at Davenport Field. Kline allowed just two baserunners and did not walk a batter. Virginia (14-8-1) clinched its fifth-consecutive series victory against Clemson. Game three of the series is slated for…
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When Lynn Coffey and her husband Billy moved to the tiny hamlet of Love, Virginia, more than three decades ago they looked around at their neighbors and discovered a vanishing way of life. Inspired to preserve the story of these people and their culture, she began publishing a newspaper about what she observed. Although the…
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Recent sustained warm temperatures encourage spending time outdoors. Officials with the Virginia Department of Forestry remind you to protect yourself and your property when these outdoor activities involve burning. The Commonwealth’s 4 p.m. Burning Law is in effect and prohibits burning before 4 p.m. Since January 1, the VDOF has responded to 166 fires that…
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The VMI Keydets tied the game with a two-out, two-run single in the 9th and led by two runs in the 10th, but the UNC Asheville Bulldogs scored three times in the bottom half of that inning and defeated VMI, 5-4, in Big South baseball action Saturday afternoon at Greenwood Field. The game was the…
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What has already been a historic year for Norfolk State University athletics reached epic proportions Saturday. The Spartans notched just the fifth 15-over-2 seed upset in NCAA Tournament history, stunning national No. 3 ranked Missouri 86-84 before a crowd of 16,829 at the CenturyLink Center Omaha. Eleven years to the day after MEAC rival Hampton…
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