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Visiting Bucknell scored the game’s final three runs and beat Richmond, 5-3, Saturday at Pitt Field. Robby Massar had two hits, homered and scored twice for the Spiders. Richmond (3-4) led 1-0 in the first after Massar’s home run and owned a 3-2 advantage in the fourth inning, but Bucknell pushed the tying run across…
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Behind a masterful performance on the mound and at the plate from Danny Hultzen (Jr., Bethesda, Md.), the Virginia baseball team earned a 10-1 win over East Carolina Friday night at a windy Davenport Field. Virginia (5-0) scored 10 runs in the third and fourth innings to turn the game into a blowout. Hultzen (2-0)…
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AFP editor Chris Graham talks Virginia news and politics on WREL-1450AM’s “Online with Jim Bresnahan.” The segment begins with a look at the final days of the 2011 Virginia General Assembly session. Will legislators be able to finish their edits to the 2010-2012 state budget by their weekend deadline? That’s the question in Richmond. A…
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Heart-attack deaths in Virginia have decreased for the 10th year in a row, and have fallen 45 percent over that 10-year period. “Prevention is a key component to fighting heart disease. Maintaining a healthy diet and physically active lifestyle are among several ways to win the battle against one of our greatest health threats,” said…
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With adult supervision being restored in the governor’s mansions in Madison, Wisc.I, Columbus, Ohio, Richmond, Va. and Trenton, N.J., the GOP is keeping its promises of cutting budgets – and not with a scalpel, but with the necessary hacksaw. In abject cowardice, Wisconsin’s 14 Democratic state senators fled the Dairy State to shun their jobs,…
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John Barr (Sr., Ivyland, Pa.) hit a two-out RBI double to score the go-ahead run in the eighth inning as the No. 10 Virginia baseball team picked up a 4-3 victory over VMI Wednesday afternoon in the 2011 home opener at Davenport Field. While the game was played on a chilly, cloudy afternoon, the game…
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Most recently it was Tim Kaine being criticized by Virginia Republicans for considering a spot on the Democratic presidential ticket in 2008. Now Democrats are throwing up their arms at a suggestion by Gov. Bob McDonnell that it would be hard to turn down the second spot on the GOP national ticket in 2012 if…
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The No. 13 Virginia baseball team finished off a perfect weekend at the Auburn Tournament with an 8-2 victory over Arkansas State Sunday at Plainsman Park in Auburn, Ala. Virginia went 3-0 in the tournament, with wins in the first two days over UAB and No. 23 Auburn. Once again Virginia received strong starting pitching….
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Richmond was silenced by a gem from Blue Devil starting pitcher Dennis O’Grady and fell at Duke, 7-0, Sunday in the rubber-match of a three-game season-opening series in Durham, N.C. O’Grady fanned 10 in seven shutout innings and scattered just five hits in the winning effort for the Blue Devils (2-1). Richmond (1-2) collected six…
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The James Madison baseball team continued showing early offensive prowess in its doubleheader sweep of visiting Bucknell, 9-2 and 26-15, Feb. 19. With the two wins, the Dukes move to 3-0 on the year with the Bison falling to 0-3. In the opener, JMU broke on top in the first as sophomore Johnny Bladel (Ashburn,…
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