The University of Richmond women’s golf team placed ninth of 15 teams in the 54-hole Sea Best Invitational held in Jacksonville, Fla. on Jan. 27 and 28.
The University of Richmond men’s tennis team secured its first two wins of the season in three weekend matchups at West Point.
The University of Richmond women’s basketball team continued to dominate the court with an 83-72 victory over the University of Dayton Flyers on Jan. 26, improving to an 8-1 record in Atlantic 10 Conference play.
Junior Molly Wise broke the University of Richmond’s record in the long jump at Liberty University’s Brant Tolsma Invitational on Jan. 24 and 25.
The Saturday, Jan. 25 sold out game between the University of Richmond Spiders men’s basketball team and the Davidson College Wildcats, featured two teams badly in need of a win.
“He was a tremendous person with just an incredible personality and a big heart, great family,” UR Head Coach Chris Mooney said. “But he was also a really important piece from kind of the older generation of players, fans, alums, ‘cause he was a star player for Coach Tarrant’s teams, some of the best teams we’ve ever had.”
With now eight losses on the season and conference play on the horizon, the Spiders proved yet again that they have yet to show the consistency needed for the conference portion of their schedule.
The Spiders started the season 9-1 and in just a week’s time now sit at 9-4 following matchups against three strong Southeastern Conference programs.
“We need to build off of these things and just keep grinding away and hopefully get better and better,” Mooney said.
Any hopes of a comeback, however, just never grew within the Spiders’ reach.
[Ullstrom] was outstanding,” UR Head Coach Aaron Roussell said in a postgame press conference. “I know she came into the game and talked about, I think she had missed her last 11 threes, and she hits 11 threes today in one game.”
“We had plenty of opportunities offensively to make plays and we didn’t do it, we had plenty of opportunities on defense to make plays and we didn’t do it,” Huesman said. “And when that happens in a playoff game, you usually lose the football game.”
“Definitely want to be the floor general, but as I said before the season started, I’m really big on just doing whatever it takes to win,” Hunt said.
“It’s one game,” Walz said in the postgame interview with the Spider Sports Network. “We gotta play tomorrow as well. We can’t let this translate, can’t let this feeling translate into a bad start tomorrow.”
“We’re really grinding,” Mooney said. “I mean that in working hard, but also we’re just, we feel stuck a lot and just have to continue to practice and fight our way through it, and fortunate to have another game tomorrow.”
The Spiders punctuated this win streak with a 73-61 victory away against Appalachian State University on Nov. 24, moving their record to 6-0 on the young season.
It’s a simple mentality, but it has more than worked for the University of Richmond football team, as the Spiders will now play in their third consecutive Football Championship Subdivision playoffs.
“It’s a great feeling, no question about that,” UR Head Coach Russ Huesman said.
“Season's not done yet, we got a lot more to work for,” Stocklinski said.
It was never a runaway on UR’s part by any means, as the Spiders trailed at halftime and had to fight their way past the Black Bears in the second half.
