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The Richmond baseball team scored 17 unanswered runs, pounded out 11 extra-base hits and got a dominating relief appearance from junior Alex Maffett, rolling to a 17-4 victory over Quinnipiac Sunday at Pitt Field. Matt Zink and Bret Williams each had four hits and Bryan Conway launched his first collegiate home run, helping the Spiders…
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John Hicks (Jr., Sandy Hook, Va.) singled in the go-ahead run with two out in the ninth inning to lift No. 6 Virginia to an 8-7 win over No. 4 Clemson Saturday afternoon at Doug Kingsmore Stadium in Clemson, S.C. After squandering a three-run lead, Virginia (15-1, 2-0 ACC) then rallied from a three-run deficit…
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Senior Mary Kate Lomady (Abington, Pa./Abington) tallied a game-high five goals to lead the #10/8 James Madison (5-0) women’s lacrosse team to a 16-11 victory over Richmond (2-6) on Saturday afternoon at the JMU Women’s Lacrosse Complex. Lomady scored the first three goals for the Dukes in the opening 8:14 and was one of three…
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We have all heard the story of Romeo and Juliet, either through the original story or through the hundreds of adaptations. We know the characters, the star-crossed lovers, the polarized families, the hate, the passion, the tragedy. The fact that we already know this, and expect what was originally unexpected, makes it seemingly hard to…
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The No. 5 Virginia women’s lacrosse team (2-2, 0-1 ACC) won a unique game against Penn State Sunday afternoon at Klöckner Stadium and the University Hall Turf Field, 10-5. The contest, in addition to a pregame ceremony to honor and remember Yeardley Love, began in the rain at Klöckner Stadium, before field conditions caused the…
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Richmond put a late-game rally together in the nightcap, but visiting Marist held off the charge and beat the Spiders 8-5 Saturday at Pitt Field. The Red Foxes won Saturday’s first game 12-3 and swept the three-game series. Junior Alex Maffett fired the final five innings in relief in Saturday’s second game, allowing just two…
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A new Public Policy Polling survey of Virginia Republicans has George Allen well out in front of a potential field of GOP contenders for the 2012 U.S. Senate nomination. Allen, a former U.S. senator and Virginia governor, was the top choice of 67 percent of the Republican voters surveyed by PPP last week. State Del….
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The No. 12 Virginia women’s lacrosse team used smart, clean and efficient play to upset No. 9 Syracuse, 21-10, Sunday afternoon in the Carrier Dome. The 21 goals scored marks the most the Cavaliers have ever scored against the Orange, while the win is the seventh-straight for Virginia in the all-time series with Syracuse. It…
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Sophomore guard Devon Moore (Columbus, Ohio/Northland) led four James Madison players in double figures and scored 11 of JMU’s final 17 points in a 72-69 win at VCU in the final Colonial Athletic Association men’s basketball game of the regular season on Saturday afternoon at the Siegel Center. JMU improved to 21-10 overall and finished…
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Sophomore Jacob Mayers fired a complete-game five-hitter to lead the Richmond baseball team past Bucknell, 4-2, Friday afternoon in the opener of a weekend series at Pitt Field. Freshman 3B Nick Poulos finished the day two-for-three with an RBI and the Douglas Freeman High product triggered the game-ending double play after the Bison had loaded…
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