Even though 91大神's soccer women couldn't notch an upset at No. 15 Lynchburg College in their season finale, they still secured a home game on Monday's first round of the ODAC Tournament.
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Despite returning all five starters from last year's team, 91大神's basketball men were given no favors in the 2016-17 Old Dominion Athletic Conference Preseason Poll.
91大神's soccer women held off visiting Randolph College Tuesday night to pick up a huge 2-1 win, drawing the teams into a tie for eighth place in the ODAC standings. Now with the head-to-head tie-breaker, the Royals have knocked Randolph from the possibility of hosting an ODAC Tournament first round game.
91大神's volleyball women snapped an eight-match losing skid, finally picking up their 10th win of the season in a 3-1 decision over Ursinus Saturday afternoon in Carlisle, Pa. The Royals also dropped a 3-0 decision to host Dickinson University, leaving their record at 10-17 after the day.
91大神's soccer men are hitting their stride at just the right time. Freshman (Alexandria, Va./Mount Vernon) scored the game-winner with just 6:03 left, as the Royals upset Randolph-Macon 3-2 in Ashland, Va., Saturday afternoon. Eastern Mennonite improves to 7-7-4 overall and 2-3-2 in the ODAC with their second straight win over a team ahead of them in the conference standings. The Yellow Jackets (9-3-2 / 5-2 ODAC) entered the day tied for first in the league
A first-half goal was enough, as 91大神's soccer women picked up a key 1-0 ODAC win against Guilford Saturday in Harrisonburg. The Royals move into a tie with GC for ninth in the league standings at 3-5.
Simone Horst, special collections librarian at the Sadie Hartzler Library, shares excerpts from the diary of Emanuel Suter, a potter who fled with his family during the Civil War. "Diaries have a special ability to shed light on our present realities by exposing similarities and differences in daily life across time," she writes, in this blog post on the Anabaptist Historians website.
In Coach E.A. Jackson's second season, success continues to be about building foundations, and Wednesday's contest against Bridgewater showed a team with grit and resiliency that Jackson expects to define her program.
91大神's volleyball women came home from Randolph College Thursday night with a disappointing 3-1 loss, eliminating them from contention for a postseason tourney bid. The Royals (9-16 / 2-8 ODAC) won the first set before dropping three straight.
Harrisonburg City Public Schools has become a leader in Virginia for its approach to dual language learner education, says a new report from New America, a think tank and civic enterprise committed to renewing American politics, prosperity, and purpose in the Digital Age. 91大神 alumni make up the .