Not all bad in Spiders' 43-19 loss to UVA
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.-- The 2012 season opener wasn't the start Richmond's new head football coach Danny Rocco wanted, not by a long shot, but it wasn't his worst nightmare either.
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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.-- The 2012 season opener wasn't the start Richmond's new head football coach Danny Rocco wanted, not by a long shot, but it wasn't his worst nightmare either.
Final Score: University of Richmond- 19, University of Virginia- 43
4th Quarter, 0:00- Cavs let the clock run out. Final score: Richmond- 19, UVA- 43. Thanks for joining me.
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The 2012 Richmond Spiders football team is faced with yet another change.
The Atlantic 10, the University of Richmond's athletic conference for all sports except football, has added Virginia Commonwealth University and Butler University for the 2012-13 seasons. With these additions, the A-10 has 16 teams, though certain schools do not participate in certain sports.
The University of Richmond had cut the University of Massachusetts' lead from seven to four, and was in good position to get closer late in the game, but failed to do so in its 14-9 loss in Sunday's Atlantic 10 Conference tournament title game.
Though its regular season ended with the Coca-Cola Wofford Intercollegiate tournament last week, the University of Richmond men's golf team competed in and won the first ever Black and Blue Cup this weekend over Virginia Commonwealth University.
The University of Richmond baseball team dropped its first of three games Friday against Atlantic-10 opponent, George Washington, 9-4.
As the regular season comes to a close, the University of Richmond women's lacrosse team has its sight set on the Atlantic 10 tournament, which will be held from April 27 to 29 in E. Claiborne Robins Stadium.
Despite expectations that the Spiders would beat their opponents handily, Richmond women's lacrosse team faced a close game Friday afternoon.
Right-handed pitcher Jacob Mayers threw a career-high 10 complete innings on Friday afternoon in Richmond's 2-1 walk-off victory over Xavier University. Mayers allowed just two hits and struck out 11 of the 36 batters he faced.
Latrell Scott, who resigned as University of Richmond's head football coach before the start of last season, was hired as James Madison University's tight ends coach Friday, according to a release on JMUSports.com.
Before coming to the University of Richmond, Heather Thornton had never been abroad, but once at the university, she pursued four trips abroad and was awarded the opportunity to participate in the Rangel Fellowship, a program that grooms undergraduate students into foreign officers, Thornton said.
The University of Richmond's cross registration program allows students to take free courses not offered on campus at other schools, though earning a spot in these classes is not guaranteed.
Despite losing 68-55 to the University of Virginia Cavaliers in the second round of the postseason WNIT tournament, Richmond's women's basketball team exceeded expectations this season. The team went 23-9, falling three games short of the school's 26-game win record.
The University of Richmond baseball team lost, 15-10, to Northeastern University today in the first of a three-game series this weekend.
Professors at the University of Richmond and Virginia Commonwealth University are co-hosting the 20th annual French Film Festival from March 29 to April 1 at the Byrd Theatre in Carytown.
Madison Moore, a doctoral candidate at Yale University, will join the Richmond Theatre and Dance and Rhetoric and Communications departments in the fall among his courses one will focus on Lady Gaga and the persona she has created.
Lt. John Jacobs of the University of Richmond Police Department will attend the FBI National Academy this summer where he hopes to build off his 19 years of service in the department, he said.