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Boston Globe
6 days ago
- Sport
- Boston Globe
The Endicott baseball team is back in the Division III World Series, and hoping to improve on past performances
'We haven't succeeded the way we want to in the World Series to this point,' he said. Last season, Endicott lost its first game at the World Series to Lynchburg, then defeated Ponoma-Pitzer before being eliminated by Misericordia in the double-elimination bracket. Two years ago, Endicott reached the final eight, but then lost two in a row. Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up Haley wants the starting pitching to set a stronger tone. Righthander Charlie Hale is leading the efforts on the mound with a 2.04 ERA, 86 strikeouts, and 13 wins. Righthander Evan Scully is 10-0 with a 2.05 ERA. Advertisement The Gulls, who are on a 12-game winning streak, have a .453 team on-base percentage, a .343 team batting average, and have hit 70 home runs. Endicott won the Conference of New England title. Infielder AJ Hamm leads Endicott in batting average at .377. He said the point of emphasis for the players is staying composed and focused in difficult moments. 'Last year definitely was a huge learning experience,' he said. Advertisement This is Hamm's second time playing for a national title and he feels more prepared to compete this year. 'During our losses last year we kind of seemed to feel like we're out of the game and we didn't have a chance,' he said. Haley has preached playing with passion all season to keep his players at their best. He tells his team to 'play like kids' down the stretch of the season. 'We don't lose a lot because we know how to play the game together and for each other,' Hamm said. 'We know exactly what we need to do this week and we're ready to go,' he added. Endicott faces Kean at 10 a.m. on Friday, and the winner will face the winner of a first-round game between Johns Hopkins and Messiah. The Endicott-Kean loser will go into the elimination bracket. Auzzy Byrdsell can be reached at
Hospitality Net
23-05-2025
- Business
- Hospitality Net
New 113-Room Hotel & 1.75-Acre Restaurant Pad Coming to Lynchburg
Daly Seven, a leading hotel developer and operator in the Southeast, is excited to announce the development of a new Holiday Inn Express & Suites and an adjacent restaurant outparcel in Lynchburg/Campbell County, Virginia. The 113-room hotel is currently under construction at 15241 Wards Road, Lynchburg, Virginia. The new hotel replaces the existing Holiday Inn Express on Seminole Avenue, and is scheduled to open in Fall 2026. The new Holiday Inn Express & Suites will offer guests the comfort, value, and consistency travelers expect from the IHG brand, including complimentary hot breakfast, a fitness center, and modern, well-appointed rooms. The hotel is designed to serve both business and leisure travelers visiting Liberty University, Centra Health, and the greater Lynchburg area. As part of the development, Daly Seven is also offering a 1.75-acre pad-ready restaurant outparcel, positioned at the front of the hotel site along the high-traffic Wards Road corridor, which sees over 40,000 vehicles daily. This site offers an exceptional opportunity for a fast-casual or full-service restaurant to serve a built-in customer base of hotel guests, Liberty University's 20,000+ undergraduate students, and local residents. The hotel and restaurant will complement the surrounding commercial district, which includes the newly renovated Hampton Inn & Suites Lynchburg, newly renovated SpringHill Suites by Marriott Lynchburg, and Chili's. Together, these properties will contribute to a welcoming and convenient retail corridor at the southern entrance to Liberty University on Liberty Mountain Drive. Parties interested in the restaurant outparcel ground lease opportunity should contact Noel Anderson at (919) 872-3507 or [email protected]. Media Contact: Noel Anderson at (919) 872-3507 or [email protected] Hotel website
Associated Press
21-05-2025
- Sport
- Associated Press
Liberty's remarkable journey: From double-wide trailers to NCAA super regionals
When Dot Richardson took over the Liberty softball program in July 2013, the coaches' offices, locker room and training room were located in double-wide trailers. 'We had a rec field,' recalled Richardson, a two-time Olympic gold medalist. 'The previous staff had built the dugouts with cinder blocks and painted them blue. It was like a hobbit dugout. It was perfect for me, but everyone else had to bend down to get in it. Humble beginnings.' Those sparse roots are part of the reason last weekend's upset of No. 1 overall seed Texas A&M is so remarkable. It gave the Flames a program-record 50 wins, saddled the Aggies with the dubious distinction of being the first top seed to fall short in NCAA Tournament regionals and – most significantly – put Liberty in the super regionals for the first time in school history. 'We just played with so much to prove and a chip on our shoulder, knowing we could do it and that we believed in each other,' said outfielder Paige Doerr. 'I don't think I'll ever forget that feeling.' Richardson's team won 11 games in 2014, her first season at the campus in Lynchburg, Virginia. A year later, Liberty opened a new state-of-the-art stadium and notched 29 victories. By 2018, Richardson had the Flames in the NCAA regionals. This year, Liberty is playing in the NCAAs for the fifth straight year. And, after coming painfully close to advancing to supers last season, the Flames took that next step, beating Texas A&M on Saturday, losing to the Aggies Sunday afternoon and then rallying for the clinching 6-5 victory in the winner-take-all final game that night. That one sent them on to face Oregon in the best-of-three super regional in Eugene starting Friday. The winner advances to the Women's College World Series starting May 29 in Oklahoma City. 'We've done that through the years,' Richardson said. 'But this year, we've been able to go over that hump. This team has never really focused on winning or losing. We've focused on being the best we can be. And our best was good enough to be where we are now.' This team, Richardson says, is her most talented and complete in her Liberty tenure. After having one or two hitters she confidently could pencil into her lineups her first few years coaching, Richardson said it's a daily struggle to find at-bats for all the capable hitters on this year's roster. That depth has been on display all season, as 11 players have hit multiple home runs, six have driven in at least 30 runs and six have tallied over 50 base hits, led by Rachel Roupe's outstanding year at the plate. Roupe is batting .392 with team highs in home runs (23) and RBI (73). In the circle, five pitchers have won multiple games and three have racked up over 75 strikeouts, paced by Elena Esocabar's 25-3 mark, 2.43 ERA, 15 complete games and 175 strikeouts. 'I'm not surprised where we are,' Richardson said. 'They just play with so much freedom. That's what happens when you see great athletes play with freedom.' Freedom and drive. LIberty has reached a regional final in each of the last three years. Last season, the Flames were one out away from beating Georgia and advancing to supers, but the Bulldogs hit a pair of RBI singles in the bottom of the seventh to walk off with the win. 'I think that the reason why we were here and why were able to win this game was because of last year,' sophomore catcher Savannah Jessee said. 'It left such a sour taste in our mouths that we were so close and we couldn't' get the job done last year. But we proved ourselves. We proved we could hang with anyone. I think having the confidence from being one out away last year helped us with this weekend.' The Flames celebrated their historic win in the wee hours by hopping a fence at the team hotel and jumping into the pool, Roupe said. The Aggies' logo was emblazoned on the pool's floor below them and – in that moment – Liberty was atop the college softball world. It hopes to stay there this weekend in Oregon. 'Finally , I think people are starting to see that we don't play around,' Jessee said. 'We're ready to take it on to the next level.' ___ AP college sports:
National Post
21-05-2025
- Business
- National Post
BWXT Closes Acquisition of Kinectrics
Article content Article content LYNCHBURG, Va. — BWX Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: BWXT) announced that it has successfully completed its acquisition of Kinectrics, Inc. as of May 20, 2025. 'Since we announced our intention to acquire Kinectrics in January, we have been looking forward to this day, when the complementary nature of our organizations begins to take shape,' said John MacQuarrie, BWXT president of Commercial Operations. 'From the commercial nuclear power market to medical isotopes, we are enhancing our capabilities across the board, supporting a growing nuclear new build and life extension industry in Canada and strengthening BWXT's position in the global nuclear market.' Article content Kinectrics offers a broad suite of nuclear power plant lifecycle support services, including for CANDU reactors, and lifecycle management services for the global nuclear power industry, transmission and distribution markets and in the production and supply of isotopes for the radiopharmaceutical industry. Article content The acquisition nearly doubles the workforce of BWXT's Commercial Operations group and enables an expanded portfolio of products and services for current and new customers. Article content Kinectrics will operate as a BWXT subsidiary, and its financial results will be reported within BWXT's Commercial Operations segment. David Harris, president & CEO of Kinectrics, will lead the organization reporting to MacQuarrie. Article content BWXT cautions that this release contains forward-looking statements, including, without limitation, statements relating to management's plans and expectations for the acquisition of Kinectrics, our ability to realize the anticipated benefits of the acquisition, future revenues and demand for Kinectrics' business, and Kinectrics' continuing operations. These forward-looking statements are based on management's current expectations and involve a number of risks and uncertainties, including, among other things, competition in the market for the products and services sold by Kinectrics. If one or more of these risks or other risks materialize, actual results may vary materially from those expressed. For a more complete discussion of these and other risk factors, please see BWXT's annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024, and subsequent reports on Form 10-Q filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. BWXT cautions not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this release and undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statement, except to the extent required by applicable law. Article content Article content Article content Article content Contacts Article content Media Contact John Dobken Senior Manager, Media & Public Relations 202.428.6913 jcdobken@ Article content Article content
Yahoo
17-05-2025
- Yahoo
Lynchburg Police Department investigates after man arrives at hospital with gunshot wound
LYNCHBURG, Va. (WFXR) — The Lynchburg Police Department is investigating after a man arrived at Lynchburg General Hospital early Saturday morning with a gunshot wound. The man was shot in the leg and showed up at the hospital at 3:39 a.m. Police say the time, location, and circumstances of the gunshot remain unknown. They are investigating but say they don't believe there's an ongoing threat to the community. Anyone with information about the incident should contact Detective Bond at (434) 455-6161 or Crime Stoppers at (888) 798-5900. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
