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Mike Mergenthaler homered and drove in two runs, while Daniel Clark fired four scoreless innings of relief, helping lift Richmond to a 6-4 win over Northeastern in the finale of a three-game series at Pitt Field Saturday. The Huskies won the first game of the twinbill, 3-1. Although having their seven-game winning streak snapped in…
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Richmond fell to top-seeded Kansas, 77-57, in the NCAA Sweet 16 Friday night at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas. Senior Justin Harper led Richmond with 22 points. The hot-shooting Kansas took the wind out of Richmond’s sails early, with a 14-2 run to take a 31-9 lead with 6:35 remaining in first frame. Richmond…
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Sophomore lefty Bret Williams gave Richmond eight strong innings and the offense pounded out 15 hits in his support as the Spiders won their sixth-straight game by beating Old Dominion, 8-3, Tuesday night in Norfolk. Freshman SS Mike Small and junior LF Phil Ruzbarksy each had three hits and Ruzbarsky drove in a pair for…
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You read that right. Our state’s capital city has all of two NCAA teams, both of which made the NCAA Tournament field of 68, and both of which fought their way into the Sweet 16 with a combined record of 5-0. Meanwhile, the entirety of the Big East, a 16-team superconference stretching from the Northeast…
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You read that right. Our state’s capital city has all of two NCAA teams, both of which made the NCAA Tournament field of 68, and both of which fought their way into the Sweet 16 with a combined record of 5-0. Meanwhile, the entirety of the Big East, a 16-team superconference stretching from the Northeast…
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Matt Zink had three hits and Bret Williams drove in three runs as the Richmond baseball team completed a three-game sweep of Maryland-Eastern Shore with an 8-1 victory Sunday at Pitt Field. The win is the Spiders’ fifth in a row. Richmond improved to 9-10-2 overall and recorded its first three-game series win since sweeping…
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Justin Harper poured in a game-high 19 points and 12th-seeded Richmond led wire-to-wire in punching its first Sweet 16 ticket since 1988, beating 13th-seeded Morehead State, 65-48, Saturday in an NCAA Third Round game in Denver, Colo. Harper did his damage on nine-of-18 shooting from the field, and the senior grabbed six rebounds, dished out…
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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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Anyone who has ever been several time zones away for a period of time knows the feeling of exhaustion that can come with returning home. The tired feeling that can last for a couple of days is known as “jet lag.” Even though I had only been in Richmond since early January, I have the…
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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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