The Chesapeake Post 280 SEALs were ousted from the American Legion Southeast Regional baseball tournament Saturday night with a 13-8, eight-inning loss to North Carolina state champion Wayne County.
The SEALs, who won Virginia’s state title, were 2-2 in the eight-team tournament at McCrary Park in Asheboro, North Carolina.
They went ahead 8-4 with a four-run fourth inning, only to see Wayne respond with three runs in the fifth to pull to 8-7.
A pair of errors opening the top of the seventh inning enabled Wayne to tie the score at 8. Chesapeake put its first two runners on base in the bottom of the seventh, but Wayne stranded them to force an extra inning. The North Carolinians then plated five runs in the top of the eighth.
Wayne’s John McLamb, who was 3 for 4 with three runs and four RBIs, knocked in the go-ahead run in the eighth to deal reliever Tommy Conrad a defeat.
Ayden West got the victory with 4 1/3 shutout innings of relief, walking four and striking out four while yielding three hits.
Jacob Chadwell drove in three runs for the SEALs, while Mikey Urbaniak scored two. Chadwell, Tanner Schaedel, Brayden Bachman, Jack Bonney and Andrew Vinerov each had two of Chesapeake’s 11 hits.
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
George Mason’s Bahamas trip canceled
George Mason’s men’s basketball team faced an unexpected setback as the Patriots’ planned summer tour of the Bahamas was abruptly canceled. The VII Group released a long apology to the team and its supporters, including donors.
It’s unclear how much George Mason paid the VII Group or if the university will receive a refund, according to TV station Fox 5 in Washington.
MORE COLLEGES
NSU grad student nominated for Woman of Year
Jordan Lyons, a graduate student on the Norfolk State volleyball team, was nominated for the 2024 NCAA Woman of the Year award by the Coast-To-Coast Athletic Conference.
The outside hitter/defensive specialist from Fairfax joined the Spartans after leading Mary Washington to the NCAA Division III Sweet 16 and a 30-5 record.
Established in 1991, the NCAA Woman of the Year program honors the academic achievements, athletics excellence, community service and leadership of graduating female college athletes from all three divisions. To be eligible, a nominee must have competed and earned a varsity letter in an NCAA-sponsored sport and must have earned her undergraduate degree by the summer of 2024.
The selection committee, made up of representatives from the NCAA membership, will choose the top 30 honorees – 10 per division – from the conference-level nominees. The top 30 will be announced in the fall. Later in the fall, the selection committee will then determine the top three honorees in each division to comprise the nine finalists.
The honorees will be celebrated at the Woman of the Year Award presentation at the NCAA Convention in Nashville, Tennessee, in January.
HORSE RACING
‘Festival of Racing’ set for Sunday
A day later than planned because of a bleak weather forecast, Colonial Downs’ “Festival of Racing” is set for Sunday.
The New Kent County track is billing its program as the biggest day of horse racing in Virginia history. Gates open at 11:30 a.m., with the first post time at 1 p.m.
The docket includes seven stakes races, highlighted by the Grade 1 Arlington Million, the Grade 2 Beverly D. and Grade 2 Secretariat Stakes.
Races originally planned for Thursday were postponed to Monday, while the races once intended for Friday were postponed to Tuesday.
TENNIS
W&M gains pledge from 5-star player
William & Mary’s men’s tennis program gained a commitment from rising Douglas Freeman High senior Dylan Chou, a two-time VHSL state Class 5 doubles champion.
Chou, who revealed his decision via Instagram, is a 5-star prospect according to Tennis Recruiting Network. He is ranked 66th nationally and first inthe state among rising juniors, and he has been as high as No. 50 nationally this year.
His father, Jimmy, grew up in Newport News and starred for Hampton Roads Academy before starting for Wake Forest.
