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Six student-athletes from the Virginia baseball team have been named to the 2013 All-ACC Baseball Team, which was announced by the league office Monday. In addition to the league-high six all-conference honorees, head coach Brian O’Connor was named the ACC Coach of the Year, while Joe McCarthy (Fr., Scranton, Pa.) was tabbed the ACC Freshman of the Year.
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The No. 7 Virginia baseball team scored four runs in the 11th inning and then held off a furious North Carolina rally in the bottom of the inning to claim a wild 8-7 victory over the second-ranked Tar Heels Saturday afternoon in front of a sellout crowd of 4,100 at Boshamer Stadium in Chapel Hill. Virginia (45-9, 22-8 ACC) won the series, two games to one, and captured eight of its 10 ACC series this year.
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Senior Johnny Bladel (Ashburn, Va./Stone Bridge) worked a career-high 7 2/3 innings and James Madison pounded 14 hits to defeat Delaware 11-6 while also getting the help it needed to earn a spot for JMU in the Colonial Athletic Association Baseball Championship on the final day of the regular season on Saturday afternoon at Bob Hannah Stadium.
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Second-ranked North Carolina scored six runs in the eighth inning to rally from a 5-2 deficit and knock off the No. 7-ranked Virginia baseball team, 8-5, Friday night in front of a sellout crowd of 4,100 at Boshamer Stadium in Chapel Hill. UVa. (44-9, 21-8) had its six-game win streak snapped as the Tar Heels (47-7, 21-6 ACC) evened the series at a game apiece and also clinched the ACC Coastal Division title.
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One of the marvels of the human race is that we were able to make a transition from eating what we could hunt or gather to a systemized method of producing food at will. We call that agriculture.
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The No. 7 Virginia baseball team scored in six different innings in a methodical 10-4 defeat of No. 2 North Carolina Thursday evening in front of 3,095 fans at Boshamer Stadium in Chapel Hill. Virginia (44-8, 21-7 ACC) won its sixth straight game while handing UNC (46-7, 20-6) just its fourth home loss in 37 games this year.
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Delaware built an 8-2 advantage through five innings, then staved off James Madison’s comeback attempt by stranding seven runners in the final three innings to record an 8-7 win in the opener of a Colonial Athletic Association baseball series on Thursday afternoon at Bob Hannah Stadium.
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Democracy for America (DFA) today announced the hiring of Kyran McCann as the State Director of its Purple to Blue Project in Virginia. McCann was most recently the District Director of CREDO SuperPAC’s successful 2012 campaign to defeat Tea Party extremist Joe Walsh in Illinois 8th Congressional District.
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U.S. Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine today applauded the confirmation of Marilyn Tavenner of Virginia as the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) by a vote of 91 to 7. Tavenner is the first Senate-confirmed CMS Administrator since 2006. CMS oversees Medicare and Medicaid and is charged with health care services for millions of Americans.
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The Commonwealth Transportation Board today voted to award Serco Inc. the Transportation Operations Center and Statewide Advanced Traffic Management Systems contract to operate the state’s five transportation operations centers and manage the Safety Service Patrol. The six-year contract is worth $355 million.
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