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Boys soccer: In the Bay Rivers District quarterfinals Friday, the top four seeds won, setting up Tuesday’s semifinals at Wanner Stadium. Brandon Jordan scored twice in the second half to lift No. 3 seed Jamestown past Smithfield 3-1 at Wanner...

Baseball Virginia Independent Schools semifinals (at Shepherd Stadium in Colonial Heights): Division III: No. 3 Fuqua 5, No. 2 Southampton Ac. 2 Division II: No. 3 Greenbrier Christian 3, No. 2 Steward 1 Division I: Trinity Episcopal d. Flint Hill  ...

COLLEGES Baseball Old Dominion at Wofford, 2 p.m. Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference tournament (at Norfolk State’s Miller Field): Savannah State vs. Coppin State, noon Bethune-Cookman vs. Savannah State-Coppin State loser, 5 Softball NCAA regional (in...

Almost every Saturday morning from March to mid-May, sailboats can be seen racing through the water at the Norfolk Yacht Club. Jumping from one side of the boat to the other, and ducking as the sails swing over their heads, high school students do their...

An official announcement is still a few days away, but Bay Days organizers say they are looking at a musical lineup filled with a variety of accomplished local and regional players, from Norfolk's Mike Aiken Band to Smithfield's Bria Kelly. The...

COLLEGES Baseball Georgia State at William and Mary (doubleheader), 2 p.m. Old Dominion at Wofford, 6 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference tournament elimination games (at Norfolk State’s Miller Field): Norfolk State vs. N.C. Central, 10 a.m. N.C. A&T...

The Bay Rivers District will crown tournament champions for the final time during the next week. With Virginia High School League realignment set for the fall, Bay Rivers teams will move into conferences based strictly on enrollment for the first level of...

Strawberry blooms are turning into berries a bit late this year, local farmers say. After a cold winter and chilly spring, most pick-your-own strawberry fields opened two or three weeks later than usual. "They were really slow getting started. I mean,...

May 14 (Reuters) - Smithfield Foods Inc, the world's largest pork producer, said on Tuesday it will soon raise half of its hogs on feed that does not contain the additive ractopamine, a lean muscle promoting drug that has been banned in China and Russia....

COLLEGES Baseball William and Mary vs. Old Dominion (at War Memorial Stadium in Hampton), 6 Men’s golf NCAA Division III championship (in Destin, Fla.; including CNU’s Brian Jaeger) HIGH SCHOOLS Baseball Tabb at Smithfield, 4:30 New Kent at...

YORK — The final Bay Rivers District track meet may be best remembered as the one that didn't quite stick to the script. The heavily favored Lafayette boys did win, but had to withhold a stiff charge by an upstart Smithfield team before pulling...

NEWPORT NEWS -- Jamestown's unseeded Fabian Schleicher, an exchange student from Austria, provided perhaps the most dramatic moment of the Bay Rivers District tennis tournament's first day at Huntington Park. Nearing victory in his second match of the...