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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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James Madison jumped out to a 5-1 lead through four innings and held on in the late innings to defeat Cornell 6-4 in a non-conference baseball game on Tuesday evening at Eagle Field at Veterans Memorial Park. JMU improved to 16-5 overall and 11-3 at home. Cornell dropped to 1-10 for the season. After Cornell…
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Virginia Sen. Jim Webb is offering sharp criticism of the handling of the ongoing crisis in Libya that escalated over the weekend with the launch of air strikes against key military installations of the Muammar Qaddafi regime. Speaking with MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” on Monday, Webb, a military veteran and former Secretary of the Navy,…
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The Harrisonburg-Rockingham Chamber of Commerce is hosting its second annual Military Support Fair on Wednesday, March 23, from 4-7 p.m. The Fair will be held at the JMU Festival Conference & Student Center located on 1301 Carrier Drive in Harrisonburg.This event is brought to you by the Shenandoah Valley Energy Partnership and JMU Outreach &…
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Michael Hayes has just won his professional wrestling debut match over his teacher, Nick Dinsmore, in dramatic fashion. The hometown crowd was cheering the young Iraq veteran on all the way, so it’s one of those nice moments in sports where the fans get to go home happy. A fan comes up to shake Hayes’…
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Sonjay Dutt is a young veteran – 28 years old, but now in his 10th year in the wrestling business. “I ask myself that all the time … where do I go, what do I do next?” said Dutt, a native Northern Virginian who is one of the building blocks on the Awesome Wrestling Entertainment…
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After Hofstra rallied for six runs in the eighth to take the lead, junior outfielder Ian Haynes (Danville, Va./Tunstall) hit a three-run home run in the bottom of the inning to give James Madison a 13-12 win in the finale of a Colonial Athletic Association baseball series on Sunday afternoon at Eagle Field at Veterans…
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James Madison sent 15 batters to the plate in a 12-run fourth inning and cruised to a 21-8 win over Hofstra in a Colonial Athletic Association baseball game on Saturday afternoon at Eagle Field at Veterans Memorial Park. JMU snapped a two-game losing skid and improved to 12-3 overall, 4-1 in the CAA. Hofstra dropped…
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Starter David D’Errico silenced James Madison for 6 2/3 innings and JMU’s rally attempt from a 4-0 deficit came up short as Hofstra earned a 4-3 win in the opener of a Colonial Athletic Association baseball series on Friday afternoon at Eagle Field at Veterans Memorial Park. Hofstra picked up its first win of the…
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Senior guard Rob Hampton hit a layup in the lane with 2.0 seconds left to break a tie and give No. 6 seed Norfolk State a 55-53 win over No. 3 Coppin State in a MEAC Tournament quarterfinal on Thursday night at the Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum. The win sends the Spartans into the…
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