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Richmond-VCU preview with VCU Ram Nation
By Jack Nicholson | March 14, 2014Richmond's 76-64 win over Duquense sets up an Atlantic 10 quarterfinal matchup between the city of Richmond's rivals.
Richmond's 76-64 win over Duquense sets up an Atlantic 10 quarterfinal matchup between the city of Richmond's rivals.
Final Score: Richmond 76 - Duquesne 64 What Happened: Terry Allen torched Duquesne, scoring a career-high 27 points and grabbing seven rebounds, as Richmond cruised to a 76-64 victory in the first round of the Atlantic 10 tournament.
University of Richmond will carry a four-game losing streak into the Barclays Center in Brooklyn for the Atlantic 10 tournament following its 60-48 loss at University of Dayton Saturday night. The Spiders, who have lost five of their last six games, fell behind 24-10 following a 13-0 Dayton run, and Richmond did not get within eight for the remainder of the game. Kendall Anthony scored a team-high 20 points, and Terry Allen added 17.
University of Richmond led Virginia Commonwealth University for the first 30 minutes, but the Rams rallied late without its two point guards and pulled out Thursday night's slugfest, 56-50, to sweep the season's two-game series with the Spiders. VCU head coach Shaka Smart called tonight's win at the loud, sold-out Robins Center character building. "That was as much of a grind of a game as we've had all year," Smart said. VCU trailed 40-36 with over 11 minutes to play when junior Briante Weber, the Ram's all-time steals leader, picked up his fourth foul.
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Final Score: Richmond 50 - VCU 56 What Happened: Richmond led Virginia Commonwealth University for the game's first 29 minutes, but the Rams fought back to take a late second-half lead.
First-half score: Richmond - 26, VCU - 22 Analysis: Richmond, which did not trail in the first half, holds a 26-22 lead at the break.
3-4 - Virginia Commonwealth University is 3-4 on the road in conference play, and has lost three of its last four road games.
The University of Richmond men's lacrosse team dropped its fifth game of the season to the College of the Holy Cross Crusaders, 11-9, after Holy Cross strung together three goals in the fourth period at Robins Stadium Tuesday. The two teams traded the lead five times throughout the game, and despite freshman Mitch Goldberg's six-point day composed of four goals and two assists, the Spiders couldn't find an answer to the Crusaders' late scoring run.
The University of Richmond men's basketball team will face Virginia Commonwealth University Thursday night at the Robins Center, but Richmond's team looks a lot different than than it did when it fell to the Rams, 81-70, at VCU in February. When asked how Richmond's team had changed in the past month, Richmond head coach Chris Mooney said, laughing, "Well, I mean, we don't have Cedrick [Lindsay] and, we don't have Derrick [Williams]." Richmond learned in two consecutive days following the loss at VCU that it would lose senior starters Williams and Lindsay for the remainder of the season.
With just two regular season games remaining the Spiders men's basketball team sits at 18-11 with an 8-6 Atlantic 10 Conference record. Last week, the Spiders dropped two road games to statistically inferior teams.
The University of Richmond baseball team broke out of a seven-game slump over the weekend with a 2-1 series win over Fairfield University, thanks to the awakening of a stagnant offense. After starting the season 0-7, the Spiders stopped their skid with a lopsided 13-2 triumph over the Stags in the first game of a doubleheader on Saturday.
The University of Richmond baseball team started the season with a 0-6 record, which frustrated players and coaches alike. After losing all three games in the University of North Florida Best Bet Classic in Florida, the Spiders returned home with hopes of benefiting from home-field advantage.
The University of Richmond baseball team shut out Fairfield University, 0-8, Sunday afternoon to win the weekend series. Though the bats were quiet for much of the game, two big-scoring innings and strong pitching from Zak Sterling, junior starter, and Ryan Cook, junior reliever, brought the Spiders to a victory over the Stags. Sterling pitched six scoreless innings, allowed five hits and one walk and struck out four batters, which earned the win for Richmond.
The baseball team lost the second game of Saturday's double-header against Fairfield University, 6-2, with a disappearance of the offense that had elevated it to a win earlier in the day. Junior Zach Grossfeld made his first career start, which lasted four innings.
The University of Richmond baseball team broke its seven-game losing streak Saturday morning with a long-awaited offensive awakening, and won 13-2 over Fairfield University. The Richmond offense, which had averaged 5.7 hits and 2.7 runs per game over its first seven games, tallied 15 hits during the first game of the weekend series against Fairfield. Five Spiders had multi-hit games.
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Final score: University of Richmond- 60, George Mason University- 69 What happened: Richmond couldn't overcome one of its worst halves of the season and dropped a game to team that played better than last place in the Atlantic-10 conference.
The University of Richmond swimming and diving team won its 12th Atlantic 10 Conference championship in 13 years last weekend in Geneva, Ohio. Since arriving on campus in 2005, head coach Matt Barany has won eight A-10 championships (including winning the past four seasons), been named A-10 Coach of the Year six times and coached five Olympic trial qualifiers. Senior Mali Kobelja said she could not think of a coach she would have rather spent four years around.
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