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The top-ranked Virginia baseball team scored eight runs in the first two innings and never looked back in coasting to a 12-0 victory over Radford Tuesday evening at RU Baseball Stadium in Radford, Va. With the shutout win the Cavaliers broke the ACC single-season record for shutouts with their 12th shutout of the year; the…
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Gov. Bob McDonnell has invited 57 school divisions that may have difficulty attracting, retaining and rewarding experienced, fully licensed teachers to participate in his Virginia Performance-Pay Incentives initiative for hard-to-staff schools. The initiative — which was approved by the 2011 General Assembly — is a centerpiece of McDonnell’s “Opportunity to Learn” education-reform agenda. It provides…
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The No. 1-ranked Virginia baseball team swept a doubleheader with Duke Sunday at Davenport Field, winning a 3-2, 11-inning nailbiter in the opener before rolling to an 18-4 victory in the nightcap. In earning its sixth straight ACC series win and fourth conference weekend sweep, Virginia improved to 36-3 overall and 16-2 in the ACC,…
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Mike Mergenthaler had three hits and drove in three runs, while Matt Trent fired the final 4.2 innings of stellar relief as Richmond won a see-saw battle at Dayton, 8-6, in the nightcap of a doubleheader Sunday. The Flyers won Sunday’s first game 15-5. With the Sunday split, the Spiders moved to 19-15-2 overall and…
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Junior catcher Jake Lowery’s (Midlothian, Va./Cosby) three-run double keyed a five-run 12th inning and redshirt junior Sean Tierney (Midlothian, Va./Clover Hill) tossed seven innings of dominant relief as James Madison rallied past UNC Greensboro 12-8 in a non-conference baseball game Friday night at the UNCG Baseball Stadium. JMU improved to 24-11 while UNCG fell to…
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Virginia Commonwealth University received outstanding efforts from its starting pitching but it wasn’t enough as the Rams fell to Northeastern University 5-2 in game one and 2-0 in the nightcap of a Colonial Athletic Association doubleheader Friday evening at The Diamond. VCU slips to 13-20 overall, 6-8 in CAA play. Northeastern won its sixth in…
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Coby Cowgill allowed just two hits over 8 1/3 innings, and Sam Roberts and Jacob Morley had four hits apiece to lead a 19-hit barrage as the VMI Keydets routed the Charleston Southern Buccaneers, 11-0, in Big South baseball action Friday afternoon in North Charleston, S.C. The Keydets (17-16-1, 6-7 Big South) posted a season-high…
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Dayton rallied from a 6-1 deficit in the sixth inning, and capitalized on five errors to beat Richmond 10-6 Friday in the opener of an Atlantic 10 series at Time Warner Cable Stadium in Dayton. Bryan Conway homered and drove in three for the Spiders. Richmond, which entered the series as the A-10’s third-best fielding…
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Danny Hultzen (Jr., Bethesda, Md.) became Virginia’s all-time wins leader as the top-ranked Cavaliers blanked Duke, 10-0, Friday evening in front of 3,550 fans at Davenport Field. Virginia (34-3, 14-2 ACC) recorded its 11th shutout of the season, tying the Atlantic Coast Conference single-season record, previously set by the 1977 Clemson and 2005 Virginia teams….
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Longwood University took a 9-7 baseball home win past visiting North Carolina Central University Thursday afternoon at Charles Buddy Bolding Stadium in Farmville. The Lancers (23-13) led 9-0 through five innings against the fellow Independent Eagles (4-31) who made it interesting by scoring seven runs during the eighth and ninth innings. Senior captain Chris Briere|Midlothian…
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