
Big second half pushes UVa. to 82-54 win over Georgia Tech
Georgia Tech closed to within five in the second half, but a 16-1 UVa. run pushed the Cavs to a 20-point lead, and they coasted from there to win 82-54 on Sunday.

Georgia Tech closed to within five in the second half, but a 16-1 UVa. run pushed the Cavs to a 20-point lead, and they coasted from there to win 82-54 on Sunday.

The No. 25 Virginia baseball team finished off a 3-game series sweep against Toledo Sunday afternoon with a 6-3 victory at Davenport Field. UVa. improved to 7-0 while Toledo dropped to 1-4.

The House of Delegates and State Senate both voted Saturday to pass a state budget bill with language that will form a 10-person commission to review and examine health care reforms before allowing Virginia to proceed with full Medicaid expansion.

The No. 25 UVa. baseball won its sixth straight game to start the 2013 season Saturday, downing Toledo, 5-0, at Davenport Field. Scott Silverstein (R-Sr., Olney, Md.) and Whit Mayberry (Sr., Alexandria, Va.) combined on a five-hitter as the Cavaliers (6-0) recorded their second straight shutout against the Rockets (1-3).

The State Senate voted 25-15 on Saturday to approve an $880 million roads plan that will pump more money into transportation maintenance and construction through an increase in the state sales tax.

Mark Cockerton scored five goals and the No. 6 Virginia Cavaliers (3-0) outlasted the Stony Brook Seawolves (1-2) on Saturday afternoon at Kenneth P. LaValle Stadium. UVa. held a narrow one-goal lead going into the intermission, 6-5, but the Cavalier defense clamped and limited Stony Brook to only four shots in the second half.

The ACLU of Virginia joined bill patrons Del. Ben Cline (R-Amherst), Del. Todd Gilbert (R-Woodstock) and State Sen. Donald McEachin (D-Richmond) in calling on the governor to sign without amendment the drone moratorium legislation sent to his desk this week by overwhelming bi-partisan votes in both houses.

The Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services announced this week that the World Organization for Animal Health has recommended that the Unites States’ risk classification for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) be upgraded to negligible risk.

Freshman left-hander Brandon Waddell (Houston, Texas) struck out 15 batters over six dominant innings and the offense piled up 15 hits as the 25th-ranked UVa. baseball team exploded for a 15-0 victory over Toledo Friday on a brisk afternoon at Davenport Field.

Another poll, this one from Quinnipiac, has Bill Bolling in the low teens in a possible three-way gubernatorial race with Republican Ken Cuccinelli and Democrat Terry McAuliffe.
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