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COLLEGE MEN’S BASKETBALLUVA loses commitmentDuke Miles decommitted from Virginia just four days after pledging to join the Cavaliers, according to The Athletic. For Oklahoma in 2024-25, he averaged 9.4 points, 2.
5 rebounds and 2.0 assists. He previously played three seasons for Troy and one for High Point.
That decision left Ryan Odom’s UVA team with four additions from the transfer portal: guards Sam Lewis (from Toledo), Dallin Hall (Brigham Young) and Jacari White (North Dakota State) and forward forward Martin Carrere (VCU).Chance Mallory and Woodside High star Silas Barksdale will join the Cavaliers in 2025-26 as freshmen, and Elijah Gertrude remains the only returner on the roster.Bethel grad goes to portal from VCUBethel High graduate Obinnaya Okafor, a 6-foot-9 forward who played sparingly in 14 games in 2024-25 for the Rams after recovering from a serious injury, entered the transfer portal.
COLLEGE WOMEN’S BASKETBALLReport: Wheeler heading from NSU to AuburnNorfolk State transfer Kierra Wheeler committed to Auburn, where the 6-foot-1 forward will play for former Spartans coach Larry Vickers, according to On3 Sports.Wheeler averaged 15.8 points, 8.
9 rebounds and 2.4 blocks per game as a senior for the MEAC champs, whose 30 victories included a 63-57 triumph at Auburn.COLLEGE SOFTBALLNSU, Morgan State change series because of forecastNorfolk State and Morgan State changed their series because of expected weather in Baltimore.
The teams will play one game Saturday at 4 p.m., then conclude the series with a noon doubleheader Sunday.
The original plan was to play twice Saturday and once Sunday.No. 3 CNU reveals schedule changesChristopher Newport (26-2), ranked third in Division III, will play a makeup doubleheader at Roanoke at 3 p.
m. April 23 but will not make up a rained-out doubleheader at William Peace.Meanwhile, CNU’s home doubleheader against No.
5 Virginia Wesleyan was moved from Thursday to 2:30 p.m. Friday.
COLLEGE WOMEN’S TENNISODU clinches outright Sun Belt titleOld Dominion (15-4, 10-0), ranked 46th nationally, clinched the outright Sun Belt regular-season championship with a 4-0 shutout of Coastal Carolina on Folkes-Stevens Tennis Center’s indoor courts.Sofia Johnson, one of the seniors celebrated in the Monarchs’ last home match, joined Victoria Matasova for a doubles triumph, and Lidiia Rasskouskaia and Ulyana Romanova also won in doubles for ODU. Johnson is ranked 16th nationally in singles.
The Monarchs clinched the victory behind wins from Kira Matushkina, Rasskouskaia and Matasova. It was ODU’s sixth consecutive victory. The Chanticleers fell to 10-9, 4-5.
COLLEGE WOMEN’S SWIMMING AND DIVINGW&M coach Kellogg takes CAA awardilliam & Mary’s Nate Kellogg was named the Coastal Athletic Association Women’s Swimming Coach of the Year for the third time in the past five seasons. The Tribe placed second to UNC Wilmington at the CAA championship meet Feb. 26-March 1 in Hampton after capturing gold medals in five individual events and three relays.
Earning All-CAA individual honors, based on top-three finishes, from W&M were: Flynn Truskett (first in the 100 freestyle and third in the 50 free), Tess Lankford (first in the 200 free), Ellie Scherer (first in the 100 breaststroke), Claire Neilly (first in the 400 individual medley), Lauren Tucker (third in the 500 free), Sophia Heilen (first in the 200 breaststroke, second in the 200 IM) and Lindsay Juhlin (second in the 100 butterfly and 100 breaststroke).In relays, W&M’s first-place 200 free, 400 free and 200 medley quartets earned CAA honors, and did the second-place 800 free and 400 medley.The 200 free relay included Zoe Arakelian,Truskett, Sarah Dunham and Caroline Burgeson; the 400 free had Truskett, Ellie Hunt, Dunham and Burgeson; the 200 medley had Julie Addison, Scherer, Juhlin and Burgeson; the 800 free had Tess Lankford, Meghan Benda, Erin Langenburg and Truskett, and the 400 medley had Addison, Scherer, Juhlin and Truskett.
PRO BASEBALLRainout prompts Tides doubleheader SaturdayThe Norfolk Tides’ home game against Gwinnett was rained out and rescheduled as part of a 5:35 p.m. doubleheader Saturday at Harbor Park.
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