Women's basketball comes up short against Towson
(12/14/08 5:34am)
The Towson University Tigers handed the Spiders their first loss of the season at the Robins Center Saturday night, beating the team 56-48.
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The Towson University Tigers handed the Spiders their first loss of the season at the Robins Center Saturday night, beating the team 56-48.
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The women's basketball team goes into Saturday's game against Towson University (6-1) at the Robins Center undefeated. Staying unbeaten, they will have to overcome the early sluggishness that defined the first half of last week's defeat of The College of William & Mary.
The University of Richmond football team is set to play the University of Northern Iowa at 4 p.m. on Saturday in Cedar Falls, Iowa, for the semifinal game of the Football Championship Subdivision playoffs.
BOONE, N.C. -- Dozens of students traveled five hours to The Rock here in Boone to cheer on the Spider football team, which won 33-13, upsetting the three-time defending national FCS champions.
BOONE, N.C. -- All week long, the question for the football team's defense was whether the addition of senior defensive ends Sherman Logan and Lawrence Sidbury Jr. would make a difference during Saturday's game against Appalachian State University.
Men's basketball defeated Delaware State University 76-66 on Saturday night at the Robins Center, completing a winning day for University of Richmond sports.
The club synchronized swim team put on its annual holiday show Thursday and Friday night to kick off its season.
Facing its toughest opponent to date, the University of Richmond women's basketball team prevailed in a hard-fought 56-48 contest versus cross-town rival Virginia Commonwealth University.
The University of Richmond football team is set to play Appalachian State University Saturday in Boone, N.C., for the quarterfinal game of the Football Championship Subdivision playoffs.
Scoring seems to come easy for the Spider men's basketball team this season, but junior guard David Gonzalvez knows the team can't win without defense.
The Spiders have averaged more rushing than passing yards per game this season, but on Saturday it was a 45-yard touchdown pass that got the University of Richmond offense started.
Sophomore Kevin Anderson scored 15 of his team-leading 17 points during the first half to propel the University of Richmond men's basketball team to a season-opening 81-57 victory over Randolph-Macon College.
There was no magical upset this time.
The University of Richmond may have allowed the University of Delaware to score two defensive touchdowns, but the deciding factor of Saturday's game was offensive touchdowns -- the Spiders had four and the Blue Hens had none.
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The University Hearing Board has disciplined Kappa Sigma's former recruitment chairman for the sexually explicit e-mail that circulated on campus recently, handing down sanctions that school policy mandates cannot be disclosed publicly.
"The strategic plan has been cooking for a long time, like Thanksgiving dinner," said University of Richmond President Edward Ayers Wednesday in the Alice Haynes Room during the final open forum on the university's strategic plan. "Now, we're pulling the turkey out of the oven."
The University of Richmond lost to No. 18 University of Massachusetts during the Atlantic 10 Championship on Saturday.