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The No. 3-ranked Virginia baseball team scored 10 runs in the fourth inning in blowing out Maryland 14-1 Friday evening at Davenport Field. The 10-run inning was Virginia’s largest single-inning output since a 10-run third inning against North Carolina in the 2009 ACC Tournament. Danny Hultzen (Jr., Bethesda, Md.) improved to 5-0 this season after…
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Left-hander Kyle Hald struck out 10 in seven innings and shortstop Josh Wright delivered the big hit with a three-run home run in the fifth to lead Old Dominion to a 5-4 win over James Madison in the opener of a three-game Colonial Athletic Association baseball series on Friday afternoon at Eagle Field at Veterans…
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AFP editor Chris Graham talks Virginia news and sports with WREL-1450AM’s “Online with Jim Bresnahan.” The segment begins with Chris and Jim talking about Gov. Bob McDonnell’s plans for raising money for Virginia’s rest areas by selling ads for display at the rest areas. Will that be enough to cover the budget gap in operating…
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Virginia spends less on per-pupil funding K-12 than does the state of Mississippi, according to an editorial in the Roanoke Times last week. Not much less; but less along with twelve other states that spend less than Mississippi, the state that has always been thought to be the bottom rung on the ladder for school…
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The Virginia pitching staff combined for its second shutout in as many nights as the Cavaliers topped Towson 5-0 Wednesday at Davenport Field. UVa improved to 21-2 this season with the win, while Towson dropped to 6-14-1. Virginia recorded its seventh shutout of the season – fourth most in a single season in program history….
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James Madison took the lead with a five-run fifth inning and held off Cornell for a 13-12 win in a non-conference baseball game on Wednesday afternoon at Eagle Field at Veterans Memorial Park. JMU won its third in a row to improve to 17-5 overall and 12-3 at home while sweeping the brief two-game set….
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The Virginia baseball team posted its sixth shutout in 22 games this season with a 6-0 victory over Towson Tuesday night in the opener of a two-game midweek series at Davenport Field. UVa improved to 20-2 this season with the win, while Towson dropped to 6-13-1. Virginia starter Will Roberts (Jr., Richmond, Va.) scattered six…
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The Rocktown Rollers women’s flat-track roller-derby team will open the home portion of its 2011 schedule when it hosts the River City Rollergirls’ Poe’s Punishers squad on Sunday, March 27. The family-friendly bout, titled “Et Tu, Brutal?”, will be held at Funky’s Skate Center in Harrisonburg, with the doors opening at 4 p.m. and bout…
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AFP editor Chris Graham talks Virginia sports on WREL-1450AM’s “Online with Jim Bresnahan.” The segment begins with a look back and look ahead at VCU and Richmond and their runs in the NCAA Tournament. Can either of the two surprise Sweet 16 teams be Final Four-bound?
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AFP editor Chris Graham talks Virginia sports on WREL-1450AM’s “Online with Jim Bresnahan.” The segment begins with a look back and look ahead at VCU and Richmond and their runs in the NCAA Tournament. Can either of the two surprise Sweet 16 teams be Final Four-bound? Chris and Jim then break down the rest of…
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