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Robert Jones, shown last season, will coach Norfolk State during the Chris Paul HBCU Classic. STEPHANIE SCARBROUGH\/AP<\/p>\nCOLLEGE MEN\u2019S BASKETBALL<\/p>\n
Norfolk State and Hampton will compete in the Chris Paul HBCU Classic on Dec. 18-19 at Gateway Arena in Atlanta.<\/p>\n
Hampton will take on Jackson State on Dec. 18 and Grambling State on Dec. 19, with both games scheduled for 5 p.m.<\/p>\n
The Spartans open the event against Grambling State at 7:30 p.m. on Dec. 18 before facing Jackson State at 7:30 p.m. on Dec. 19. NSU beat Grambling 76-70 last season and is 3-1 all-time against that Louisiana team but has never played Jackson State.<\/p>\n
\u201cLooking forward to the challenge against great competition from the SWAC,\u201d NSU coach Robert Jones said in a release.<\/p>\n
HU coach Ivan Thomas said in a release, \u201cIt\u2019s an incredible honor to compete in the Chris Paul HBCU Classic. This event is bigger than basketball \u2014 it\u2019s a celebration of our culture, our history and our future.\u201d<\/p>\n
Broadcast details are to be announced.<\/p>\n
Robert Jones, shown last season, will coach Norfolk State during the Chris Paul HBCU Classic. STEPHANIE SCARBROUGH\/AP<\/p>\n
COLLEGE WOMEN\u2019S SOCCER<\/p>\n
ODU stuns No. 21 Hokies<\/p>\n
Old Dominion defeated a top-25 opponent for the first time since 1998, overcoming No. 21 Virginia Tech 2-1 before about 750 fans at ODU\u2019s stadium.<\/p>\n
Brooke Edwards and Riley Mullen scored for the Monarchs, who doused coach Angie Hind with orange liquid after the victory.
ODU (2-1-1) outshot the Hokies 13-6 and didn\u2019t let Tech (4-1-1) come close to a goal in the waning minutes. ODU hadn\u2019t beaten the Hokies since 1999 and hadn\u2019t beaten a ranked foe since George Washington 27 years ago.<\/p>\n
The Hokies\u2019 Ellie Robertson scored 4:24 into the match. But about five minutes later, Mullen laced a shot into the net off a pass from Yuliia Khrystiuk. The eventual winning sequence came late in the first half as Edwards headed home a pass from Finja Kappmeier, who received a long Grace Hillis pass.<\/p>\n
No. 8 UVA beats No. 9 Penn State<\/p>\n
Maggie Cagle scored in the second minute to lift eighth-ranked Virginia over ninth-ranked Penn State 1-0 in Charlottesville. Passes by first-time starter Carrie Helfrich and Addison Halpern set up the goal for the Cavaliers (5-0-1) against the Nittany Lions (3-2-1).<\/p>\n
UVA outshot Penn State 18-4.<\/p>\n
Norfolk Academy grad honored for her CNU play<\/p>\n
Christopher Newport freshman Addy Hennessy of Norfolk was named the Coast-To-Coast Athletic Conference Defensive Player of the Week. She played all 180 minutes as CNU, ranked third in the Division III preseason poll, beat the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy 3-0 and Saint Benedict 2-0.<\/p>\n
The Norfolk Academy graduate assisted Alex Devers\u2019 winning goal in the 24th minute against the Mariners, and the shutouts were the 66th and 67th in Jamie Gunderson\u2019s CNU coaching tenure. Goalkeeper Amy Sidaway needed to make just two saves for the weekend for the Captains (2-0), who play host to Mary Hardin-Baylor at 7 p.m. Friday.<\/p>\n
COLLEGE MEN\u2019S SOCCER<\/p>\n
CNU keeper gains conference award<\/p>\n
Christopher Newport senior goalkeeper Hayden Dewey was named the Coast-To-Coast Athletic Conference Defensive Player of the Week for the second time in his career.<\/p>\n
The Captains opened their campaign with a pair of draws, 1-1 against the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy and 0-0 against Dickinson, the eighth-ranked team in Division III. Dewey made five saves over 180 minutes in those games.<\/p>\n
COLLEGE WOMEN\u2019S CROSS COUNTRY<\/p>\n
Captains\u2019 Dake races to weekly honor<\/p>\n
CNU\u2019s Sarah Dake was named the C2C Women\u2019s Cross Country Athlete of the Week, the first Captain so honored since 2022. She finished the 4-kilometer Spider Alumni Open in 14 minutes, 35.1 seconds at Pole Green Park in Mechanicsville, becoming the first CNU runner to break 15 minutes at that distance.<\/p>\n
She was 27th overall and the fastest Division III runner in the field, breaking the personal record of 15:27.3 she set at last year\u2019s Spider Alumni Open.<\/p>\n
GOLF<\/p>\n
ODU\u2019s Ma wins 8-hole Portsmouth playoff<\/p>\n
Old Dominion player Kaijun Ma of Macau, China, won an eight-hole playoff last weekend to win the Portsmouth City Amateur Championship at Bide-A-Wee Golf Course.<\/p>\n
The senior shot 68-74 for a 2-under-par 142, tying Churchland High alum Jonathan McEwen of Washington and Lee, the 2025 NCAA Division III Jack Nicklaus National Player of the Year. They traded birdies on some of the playoff holes until McEwen\u2019s double bogey enabled Ma to sink a bogey putt for the victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLLEGE MEN\u2019S BASKETBALL Norfolk State and Hampton will compete in the Chris Paul HBCU Classic on Dec. 18-19…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":201403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[1339,1370,1317,1337,1338,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-201402","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-latest-headlines","10":"tag-ncaa","11":"tag-ncaa-basketball","12":"tag-ncaabasketball","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115149873277121361","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}