WASHINGTON -- James Madison University redshirt senior Casey Ancarrow is among 25 nominees for the 2013 Tewaaraton Award, given to the nation's top college lacrosse player.
LYNCHBURG -- Fourth-seeded Washington and Lee registered the second straight upset of the 2013 Old Dominion Athletic Conference baseball tournament with a 7-4 victory over No. 23 Shenandoah on Thursday.
Alyssa Bane (Strasburg '11) is finishing her sophomore track and field season in style.
The Eastern Mennonite thrower set a school record in the hammer throw in the Liberty Invitational on April 6.
PHILADELPHIA -- Senior Jaclyn Mohlmann wrapped up her participation at the 119th Penn Relays on Wednesday afternoon with a seventh-place finish in the heptathlon.
CHARLOTTESVILLE -- The No. 5 Virginia baseball team used three big innings to score a season-high 16 runs in a 16-8 triumph over James Madison on Wednesday night at Davenport Field. Virginia (37-6) scored five times in the first and eighth innings and four in the fourth as it posted its sixth straight victory.
WINCHESTER -- There's plenty of work to be done to perfect Brooke Rosenberg's throwing motion. That's understandable -- four-year-olds aren't known for their accuracy, and Brooke has the advantage of having an expert in her corner.
WINCHESTER - The Shenandoah University softball team completed its regular season Tuesday afternoon by sweeping a non-league doubleheader from the Catholic University of America.
HARRISONBURG -- James Madison University Director of Athletics Jeff Bourne announced Tuesday that head coach Matt Brady has signed a new contract as leader of the men's basketball program. The deal extends Brady's commitment to JMU through the 2016-17 season.
FOREST -- Shenandoah University sophomore J.J. McDaniel has been named Old Dominion Athletic Conference Player of the Week for baseball in selections announced Monday afternoon by the league office.
HARRISONBURG -- Senior outfielder Colby Roberts strung together one of the best performances of the season by a James Madison University player to earn Louisville Slugger National Player of the Week recognition from Collegiate Baseball to go along with the Colonial Athletic Association's weekly honor, while sophomore right-hander Chris Huffman strung together four impressive relief outings to share CAA Pitcher of the Week recognition.
FARMINGDALE, N.Y. - No. 25/25 Shenandoah University completed its regular season baseball slate by Sunday splitting a non-league doubleheader at Farmingdale (N.Y.) State.
HARRISONBURG - Sophomore Chad Carroll's two-run double in the eighth was the game winner and senior Colby Roberts added a two-run single for a four-run uprising as James Madison pushed past Georgia State 8-5 in the final game of a Colonial Athletic Association series on Sunday afternoon at Veterans Memorial Park.
PATCHOGUE, N.Y. - No. 25 Shenandoah University ran its baseball winning streak to six games Friday afternoon with a 15-5 non-league victory at St. Joseph's (N.Y.).
WILLIAMSBURG -- Junior Amy Roguski scored a career-high six goals to lead the James Madison women's lacrosse team to an 18-7 win at William and Mary in Colonial Athletic Association action on Friday afternoon.
WINCHESTER - Visiting Randolph-Macon prevented Shenandoah University from clinching an ODAC Tournament berth by sweeping a softball doubleheader from the Hornets Thursday afternoon.
HARRISONBURG -- The James Madison University women's basketball team topped North Carolina State 72-66 in the second round of the Women's National Invitation Tournament Sunday afternoon at the JMU Convocation Center.
Since I so nailed it with my last column on college basketball (Virginia? Norfolk State? Yeah, I meant NIT-bound, of course) maybe I should spare you the traditional NCAA tournament picks.
WINCHESTER -- Racquetball wasn't always a passion for Kelani Bailey, although a quick glance at her parents' accomplishments in the sport would lead you to think otherwise.
SALISBURY, Md. -- The Shenandoah University men's and women's cross country teams posted a pair of top seven finishes Saturday at the Don Cathcart Invitational hosted by Salisbury University.
WINCHESTER -- No. 4/6 Shenandoah University ran its season-opening winning streak to 10 games Friday afternoon with a 15-0 USA South Conference victory over N.C. Wesleyan.
This will not be yet another BCS-bashing diatribe.
There will be no elegant playoff solutions here.
That doesn't mean wishful thinking is off-limits, though. After all, it is the holiday season.
TCU got a big present on Monday, when the school's board of trustees voted unanimously to accept an invitation to join the Big East Conference in all sports starting in the 2012-13 school year ... or rather, football season since this move is purely, completely and transparently 100 percent about football.
WINCHESTER -- After dropping behind 4-0 in the first two minutes of play to Shenandoah University, Mary Washington took almost the entire game to recover, but recover they did to topple the Hornets 83-72 in overtime during the final game of the 2010 South Region Challenge at Shingleton Gym.
"We didn't start very well and they jumped on us early," Eagles coach Ron Wood said. "We always fight hard to get back into the game, but tonight was the first time we've actually been successful, so I'm very pleased with our effort."
WINCHESTER -- The Shenandoah University women's basketball team used a strong shooting performance to down Hood College 80-51 in a non-league contest Sunday night.
Shenandoah (2-3) snaps a three-game losing streak with the win over the Blazers (4-1) and shot a season-best 53 percent from the field in the process.
The 80 points scored is also a season-best, with coach Michelle Guyant-Holloway's club earning free chicken wings for the 209 in attendance due to an athletic department promotion.
Black Friday.
Usually those are words that excite many women around the country. Many women can't wait to go out and shop all day and night, running up their credit card bills and having a girls day out.