|
Latest Sports Stories
Published: Mar 20, 2012 Ryan gets fired up, so does Benedictine .jpg) Sean Ryan tried to be patient. The Benedictine baseball coach watched his team sleepwalk through most of its first two games against Greenbrier Christian and Bishop Sullivan, both of which the Cadets still managed to win. When it looked like more of the same midway through last Wednesday’s nonconference game against Blessed Sacrament Huguenot, Ryan decided he finally had seen enough. The Cadets led 8-4 as they prepared to bat in the bottom of the fourth inning when Ryan gathered his players in the dugout for a brief, but direct, wakeup… Read more... Published: Mar 20, 2012 Elliott Sadler to attend event at Children’s Museum  Richmond International Raceway, The NASCAR Foundation and the Children’s Museum of Richmond invite the community to attend its special announcement on Wednesday, Mar., 21 (5:30 p.m.) at the Museum, located at 2626 West Broad Street. The event will be attended by NASCAR driver/Virginia native Elliott Sadler and family, as well as RIR President Dennis Bickmeier and Children’s Museum of Richmond President Karen Coltrane. The first 200 guests, of all ages, who arrive at the announcement, receive complimentary admission into the Museum, following a brief announcement regarding… Read more... Published: Mar 14, 2012 Core group key for Bulldogs, Cougars and Cadets .jpg) Goochland baseball coach Wes Farkas is anticipating success when his Bulldogs return to the James River District this season. “I am very optimistic for this year’s team,” Farkas said. “I hope to be very competitive this season in the JRD. We will be re-learning the district all over again, but we know that there will still be some very talented teams in the district including Randolph Henry, Buckingham and Bluestone.” Defensively, the Bulldogs will be anchored by solid returning infielders including Chase Brookman, Alex McDowell… Read more... Published: Mar 14, 2012 County softball teams look to match 2011 triumphs .jpg) The three Goochland County high school softball programs would be hard pressed to improve on last season’s lofty accomplishments. However, LIS champion St. Catharine’s, LIS runner-up Collegiate and Jefferson District champion Goochland are hoping to do exactly that. Collegiate and Goochland will rely on the bulk of their returning starters for this year’s campaign. Prospects are even higher for the Cougars, they return the entire starting lineup; a situation that pleases Coach Rob Turner. “We did not have any seniors last year and we… Read more... Published: Mar 14, 2012 Local soccer players take championship .jpg) Goochlanders Emma Ragone and Brooke Hix were part of the U11 travel team for Richmond Strikers that just returned from Va. Beach where they attended the Rush Cup tournament. After a long weekend of extremely muddy fields, the girls won the championship. Hix and Ragone attend Randolph Elementary School. Read more... Published: Mar 13, 2012 Charity event brings everyday drivers to RIR Last Wednesday, drivers from Yorktown to Fredericksburg, came to Richmond and got behind the wheels of their cars, trucks and motorcycles to turn a few laps at Richmond International Raceway. As part of RIR Cares Track Laps, by simply making a $20 donation, anyone with a valid driver’s license could take advantage of the rare opportunity to drive their personal vehicle around the same track that NASCAR drivers Denny Hamlin, Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Tony Stewart compete upon. “They can get a little feeling of what the drivers go through,” said RIR President… Read more... Published: Mar 07, 2012 Cadets come up short in battle of D-I players .jpg) Episcopal and Benedictine fans should have expected a good game when the two teams, seeded second and third, respectively, met in the semifinals of the Virginia Independent Schools Division I state tournament at Virginia State University Friday night. They were not to be disappointed. The Cadets, who trailed by nine points with 1:08 remaining in the third period, took a 1-point lead in the final minute before falling to the Maroon 51-48. Episcopal fell to top-seed Paul VI 62-61 in the championship. “We were lucky to be in… Read more... Published: Mar 07, 2012 NASCAR’s Virginia boys dominate in Phoenix .jpg) Emporia native Elliott Sadler and Chesterfield’s Denny Hamlin both brought home victories for the Commonwealth this weekend at Phoenix International Raceway. Elliott Sadler captured his first NASCAR Nationwide Series victory since 1998 on Saturday afternoon in the Bashas’ Supermarkets 200. The win marked Sadler’s first career win at PIR and ended a 13-season winless drought. The win gave Sadler a 10-point lead in the Nationwide Series points standings over second-place Austin Dillon. Sadler also announced this weekend that he will drive… Read more... Published: Mar 05, 2012 Vanderbilt inks Parade Magazine All-American kicker Colby Cooke  NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The recent Vanderbilt football signing class, regarded among the program’s best ever, got stronger Monday with the addition of one of the nation’s top kicking specialists. Colby Cooke, a 2011 Parade All-American recipient from Goochland (Va.) High School, will join the Vanderbilt program for the 2012 season, Commodore Head Coach James Franklin announced. Cooke, listed as a three-star prospect and one of the nation’s top 10 senior kickers by Rivals.com, becomes the 22nd Vanderbilt signee. The 2012 Commodore recruiting class achieved its highest… Read more... Published: Mar 01, 2012 Cadets hold off Titans in VISAA  Suddenly, when all seemed lost, the Trinity Episcopal Titans found their game. Down 44-29 to Benedictine with 7 minutes left in the VISAA quarterfinals Wednesday, Coach Rick Hamlin’s guys battled back with abandon and aplomb, gained confidence with each possession, then watched helplessly as the clock ticked to zero following Jaylen Hinton’s last-second 3-pointer that pared the home team’s five-point lead to 52-50. “Trinity doesn’t give up,” Cadets coach Sean McAloon said. “They play with an extreme amount of fight. They play the whole… Read more... |
Deal of the Day
Richmond Surburban Newspapers
© Media General Communications Holdings, LLC | Contact Us | Terms & Conditions
Main Media Partners: Richmond.com | Cumberland Today | Mechanicsville Local | Midlothian Exchange | Powhatan Today | Times-Dispatch
