
#2 UVA men’s soccer loses second in a row
The No. 2-ranked UVA men’s soccer team dropped a 1-0 match at No. 18 Syracuse Saturday night at SU Soccer Stadium. It marked the second straight defeat for the Cavaliers (4-3-1, 1-1-1 ACC).

The No. 2-ranked UVA men’s soccer team dropped a 1-0 match at No. 18 Syracuse Saturday night at SU Soccer Stadium. It marked the second straight defeat for the Cavaliers (4-3-1, 1-1-1 ACC).

For the third straight game, UVA football drew in the low thirties for a home game, leaving the 44,749 who came out to see the season opener against then-#7 UCLA as the biggest crowd of the season.

U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine and Virginia Secretary of Education Anne Holton participated in the Association for Career and Technical Education’s Region II Leadership Conference in Richmond.

UVAhad come into its game with Kent State as 27-point favorites, but they were outplayed in the first half by the Golden Flashes, whose most recent effort was a 66-0 pasting at the hands of Ohio State.

Make its return to the Southern Conference, the VMI men’s soccer program hosted Mercer University to Patchin Field. The Bears scored in the 21st minute, a goal which held in the programs’ SoCon openers.

UVA was outplayed in a sloppy first half by heavy underdog Kent State, but took control in a dominant third quarter and ultimately coasted to a 45-13 win in front of just 33,526 fans at Scott Stadium in Charlottesville, Va., on Saturday.

Enrollment at Eastern Mennonite University this fall set new records, including a record-high number of students who are ethnic minorities or come from other countries.

Author Scott Jost will describe the history of the apple industry in the Valley through oral histories and photographs in an October 2, program sponsored by the Augusta County Historical Society.

Highway work requiring road/lane./structure closures is scheduled, weather permitting, in the Lynchburg VDOT District.

Augusta Free Press editor Chris Graham will host a live blog during today’s non-conference game between UVA (2-2, 1-0 ACC) and Kent State (0-3) in Charlottesville, Va.
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