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¡Muy delicioso!
My recent south-of-the-border noshing was inspired by this weekend's holiday, Cinco de Mayo.
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All-area girls basketball team capsules
The News & Advance All-area girls basketball team.
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Brown rebuilt depleted Bulldogs into a championship finalist
There were three and a half minutes left in LCA’s VIS state semifinal matchup against a formidable 22-1 St. Catherine’s, and Coach Tom Brown’s squad was down by 10. To make matters worse, Bulldogs’ top scorer, 6-foot-2 senior forward Alana Arias had just fouled out.
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Carter shines as a sophomore on Pioneers' court
Heritage’s Cameron Carter was not only her team’s most prolific scorer this year. The sophomore guard was also arguably the most creative playmaker in the Seminole District. That’s saying a lot, given her age. Carter averaged nearly 16 points, 4.3 assists, 3.7 steals and grabbed seven rebounds per game this past season. She shot 44 percent from the field and has already netted more than 600 points in two years, but she still has plenty of room to improve.
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Lancers left in a fog after five-inning loss to Glass
AMHERST — Foggy conditions forced the umpires to take the bats out of the hands of Amherst’s baseball team Tuesday night in its Seminole District showdown with E.C. Glass. With the Lancers rallying from a seven-run deficit to pull within two with no outs in the bottom of the sixth, the game was suspended after Hilltoppers outfielders lost Marcus Thomas’ shot into the left-center field gap for a stand-up triple.
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Sources: Johnson to replace Greenberg at Virginia TEch
Virginia Tech director of athletics Jim Weaver said last week he was displeased with all of the school’s men’s basketball assistants leaving en masse this offseason for comparable jobs at similar or smaller universities. It was one of the main reasons the Hokies decided to part ways with head coach Seth Greenberg after nine mostly-successful seasons.
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UPDATED: Bear cub found in Giles County euthanized
State biologists say the cub had nothing wrong with it, but had to be euthanized because there were no local options to rehabilitate the animal back into the wild.
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Lisa Pugh recognized as school counselor of the year
Lisa Pugh is the recipient of this year’s Lynchburg Area Counselor’s Association School Counselor of the Year.
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Rain shortens Curcio track meet
After three hours of events, severe weather halted competition in the fourth annual Joe Curcio Classic on Saturday at Lynchburg College’s Shellenberger Field.
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Coastal sweeps Liberty
Coastal Carolina’s Big South success in the last decade is no fluke. The Chanticleers have had some of the best seasons of any mid-major in Division I baseball in recent years. They’ve made two Super Regional trips. Since 2005, they’ve won 50 games in a season four times. They’ve had numerous players drafted, including current Hillcats standout Tommy La Stella.
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Lynchburg advances to ODAC title game
With two out in the seventh, Lynchburg College starting pitcher James Womack walked in the tying run, but he got out of the jam by getting ODAC Player of the Year Jordan Walton to ground-out weakly to the shortstop.
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LC baseball advances to ODAC semifinals with shutout of E&H
Lynchburg College freshman pitcher Brandon Miller admitted to being a little nervous when he got the nod to be the starter in the Hornets’ second game in the ODAC baseball tournament against Emory & Henry on Friday. His performance, though, said otherwise. In just his second career start for LC, Miller shut out the Wasps with a complete-game, two-hitter, leading the Hornets to a 3-0 victory.
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ODAC Day 2 notebook
Lynchburg College’s Zach Fitzpatrick was hit by a pitch in the fifth inning Friday against Emory & Henry and it started a rally that led to a 3-0 win for the Hornets.
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Rustburg dominates Liberty in softball
All week long, Rustburg coach Michelle Riddle had her team working on hitting the rise ball — a pitch that, when delivered effectively, can cripple hitters as it changes position near the plate.
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Coastal makes it 15 in a row over Liberty
The “3-1” pickoff move in baseball is one that is executed to perfection so rarely that any time a pitcher tries it, the crowd usually reacts with boos, expletives and screams for umpires to call a balk.
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Lovingston couple wins state Supreme Court case
The Supreme Court of Virginia ruled in favor of a Lovingston-area couple in their fight against the foreclosure of their property.
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Eight area seniors athletes announce college choices
There has been a bumper crop of college commitments from area athletes this spring, including four football players, three soccer players and one baseball pitcher who announced their intentions this week.
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Female freshman phenoms, sophomore sensations on the fast track
An abundance of fast female freshmen and sophomore runners have set the pace for area competitors in the Seminole District outdoor track and field season this spring. "It’s unbelievable," Rustburg 13th-year coach Gerald Mosley said. "I was talking to coach [Lance] Carter from Amherst last week and we’ve never seen a crop of freshmen and sophomores as competitive as we have right now."
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Media General CEO: Newspaper sale would improve market value
Selling its newspaper operations would improve the overall market value of Richmond-based Media General Inc., the company's top executive told shareholders at its annual meeting Thursday.
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Coastal continues dominance over Flames
Though the Liberty-Coastal Carolina baseball series has been one-sided for the better part of four years now, Chanticleers infielder Rich Witten is quick to make an astute observation.
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ODAC: Notebook
Play was interrupted by rain after the first game Thursday. The delay pushed the start of Game 2 back 90 minutes to 4:30 p.m. and Game 3 got started an hour late at 8 p.m.
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ODAC: First-round capsules
Bridgewater’s Devon Snow led off the bottom of the ninth with a perfect bunt and eventually came around to score the winning run on a throwing error by Guilford pitcher Will James.
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ODAC: Lynchburg dominates opener
Lynchburg College’s offense stayed hot and Robert Garrett held Hampden-Sydney in check as the top-seeded and 20th-ranked Hornets defeated the Tigers, 8-1, In Game 1 of the Old Dominion Athletic Conference baseball tournament at City Stadium on Thursday.
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LU baseball establishes recruiting success in Northwest
For there to be a movement, there has to be a pioneer, one that sets the wheels in motion. In the case of Liberty baseball, those forerunners were Curran Redal and Zane Bator, a couple of junior college players from Washington state who took a chance on a Christian university in the Mid-Atlantic not many out that way knew existed.
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ODAC baseball tourney opens today at City Stadium
An automatic bid into the Southern Regional of the Division III NCAA Tournament is at stake this week at the 2012 Old Dominion Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament at City Stadium. Play begins this morning at 11 a.m. when top-seeded Lynchburg College, ranked 20th in the country, takes on sixth-seeded Hampden-Sydney College.
Deal of the Day
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Top 10
- 1.Hikers found on Appalachian Trail in Nelson County
- 2.Obituaries for the week of May 24, 2012
- 3.Miller named as new emergency services coordinator of county
- 4.Animal carcasses found in Tye River
- 5.Lovingston lawyer named General District Court judge
- 6.Appomattox man dies at Amherst County paper mill
- 7.Update: Lost hikers identified
- 8.VDOT to be sued by former employee for displaying nooses
- 9.Sun Belt shuts door on Liberty's bid to join conference
- 10.Rabies confirmed in fox caught in Lynchburg
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