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4 days ago | 
newsadvance.com | Bryson Gordon
After a regular season filled with success in Old Dominion Athletic Conference play, Lynchburg baseball was pushed to the brink on championship Saturday in Tysons. The top-seeded Hornets dropped the first game of the afternoon to No. 2 Randolph-Macon to force a winner-take-all final, where they trailed 3-2 with 12 outs to go.
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4 days ago | 
newsadvance.com | Bryson Gordon
As Liberty softball faced elimination from the Conference USA Tournament on Friday night, starter Elena Escobar was there every step of the way again on Saturday to help lift her team back to the top spot in the league.
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5 days ago | 
newsadvance.com | Bryson Gordon
The defensive play of the game for Jefferson Forest came as the closer to a nice week in the field for Jacob Eckart. The Cavaliers' second baseman made some special plays in his team's win over Brookville on Wednesday, his coach Ryan Gilleland said. On Friday against E.C. Glass, Forest needed one more to escape a pinch in the fifth inning of a three-run game.
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5 days ago | 
newsadvance.com | Bryson Gordon
Jefferson Forest junior Spencer Sloan made it clear after a recent Cavaliers lacrosse victory over William Byrd: "We're trying to establish a culture."Four years into the program's run as a Virginia High School League-sanctioned program, JF's culture is coming into focus. "It's a family. It's a brotherhood. I think that's the one edge that we have on everyone," senior attack Dany Nguyen said. "Everyone wants it. Everyone's coming to practice really competitive and ready to compete.
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6 days ago | 
roanoke.com | Bryson Gordon
LYNCHBURG — The up-and-down ride that Liberty baseball has endured this season has caused coach Bradley LeCroy to lose sleep. Down the line, the Flames' head man will probably find some appreciation for what his team has done in his first year despite finding themselves fighting for their Conference USA Tournament hopes with six league games left.
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1 week ago | 
newsadvance.com | Bryson Gordon
The up-and-down ride that Liberty baseball has endured this season has caused coach Bradley LeCroy to lose sleep. Down the line, the Flames' head man will probably find some appreciation for what his team has done in his first year despite finding themselves fighting for their Conference USA Tournament hopes with six league games left.
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1 week ago | 
newsadvance.com | Bryson Gordon
Ahead of defending its Conference USA Tournament championship after ripping through the league's regular season, Liberty softball cleaned up on Tuesday when the league announced its postseason awards. The Lady Flames claimed four major awards, including player, pitcher and newcomer of the year, and they placed nine players on the league's two all-Conference USA teams, including six first-team selections.
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1 week ago | 
newsadvance.com | Bryson Gordon
Just one week before winning the biggest game in Liberty women's lacrosse history, Lady Flames head coach Kelly Nangle saw a team she described as not very confident. The Lady Flames were at Jacksonville, facing a Dolphins program that had snuffed out their ASUN Women's Lacrosse Tournament championship hopes in five straight postseasons.
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1 week ago | 
newsadvance.com | Ben Cates |Bryson Gordon
University of Lynchburg runner Sam Llaneza on Tuesday set a new personal best in the 800 run, clocking a 1:49.03 four days after making history in the mile. Llaneza entered Tuesday's event at LU's Matthes-Hopkins Track Complex with the ninth-fastest 800 time in all of Division III, a 1:50.13 set in March. His personal best prior to Tuesday was 1:49.13.
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1 week ago | 
newsadvance.com | Bryson Gordon
In Lexington, the Lynchburg men's lacrosse team pushed top-seeded Washington and Lee to overtime with a goal in the final minutes of regulation, but the Generals put away the Hornets, 13-12, with a walk-off finish from Elliot Cohen to win the ODAC men's lacrosse title. Cohen slipped into the middle of second-seeded Lynchburg's defense and punched in a shot over his shoulder from just outside the crease with 1:31 left in the first overtime period.
