Moorer, Franklin earn All-ACC accolades

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Virginia guard Ariana Moorer (Woodbridge, Va.) and Ataira Franklin (Bowie, Md.) earned All-ACC honors, the conference announced on Tuesday (Feb. 27). Moorer was named to the second team, while Franklin garnered honorable mention recognition. Moorer, a senior, is the Cavaliers’ active career scoring leader with 1,194 points over her four-year career. She is UVa’s leading…

UVa. announces 2012 football schedule

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The Atlantic Coast Conference released the 2012 football schedules for the league’s 12 schools today. Virginia’s slate features 12 regular-season games, including seven home contests and a Thursday night appearance on ESPN. Starting times for all contests and the home game designated for Homecomings will be announced at a later date. “Our schedule will be…

“Almost Grown: Tales of Careers, Life and Marriage” at WTA’s Gateway

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Actress/Storyteller Lynn Ruehlmann will bring her one-person show Almost Grown to WTA’s Gateway on Saturday, March 3rd. The piece is an adult tale of what Ruehlman calls “Mischief and Other Matters.”  She looks at what it means to becoming an adult and facing what that means: careers, life, loves, and marriage. Almost Grown will be…

RMH youth tobacco prevention program awarded $179K grant

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The Virginia Foundation for Healthy Youth has awarded a $178,770 grant to the Strong Families/Great Youth Coalition’s Toward No Tobacco program to support and expand tobacco prevention classes for middle school students. TNT is a two-week evidence-based tobacco prevention class taught to seventh-graders in Harrisonburg, Rockingham County and Augusta County by RMH respiratory therapist Ron…

Chris Graham: Ain’t never gonna happen

Chris Graham

Teams not named Duke or North Carolina are never going to get a fair shake in ACC basketball. That’s not whining or lamenting; that’s describing reality. It’s OK. We get it. The Duke-Carolina binary system is the linchpin of the ACC’s marketing efforts. In spite of the best John Swofford and the other suits in…

UVa. baseball completes sweep of Monmouth

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The Virginia baseball team finished off a three-game series sweep over Monmouth Sunday afternoon with a 13-1 win at Davenport Field. Whit Mayberry (Jr., Alexandria, Va.) pitched six shutout innings, and the Cavaliers (5-1-1) pounded out 18 hits to support him. Virginia outscored Monmouth (3-3) 37-6 in the series. Reed Gragnani (Jr., Richmond, Va.) went…

EMU baseball posts another win

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A day after combining for 50 runs over 16 innings, it looked like EMU and Southern Vermont would settle into a low-scoring affair.  Then the seventh inning happened as the two teams put up nine runs.  The Royals held the edge again on Sunday, completing a three-game sweep of SVC with a 12-9 win. Each…

UVa. women knock off Florida State

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In the regular-season finale for both teams, Virginia defeated Florida State, 66-57. Senior guard Ariana Moorer (Woodbridge, Va.) scored 23 points to lead four Cavaliers that scored in double figures. With the win, Virginia improved to 21-9 overall and finished the regular-season with a 9-7 mark in Atlantic Coast Conference action. Florida State’s record dropped…