Sports Briefs
Men’s Basketball’s George honored by coaches
Senior Nick George (Manchester, England) was named to the National Association of Basketball Coaches Division I All-District Second Team.
George, who is fourth in the Colonial Athletic Association with a scoring average of 17.
Men’s Basketball’s George honored by coaches
Senior Nick George (Manchester, England) was named to the National Association of Basketball Coaches Division I All-District Second Team.
George, who is fourth in the Colonial Athletic Association with a scoring average of 17.0 points per game and has the conference’s highest 3-point percentage, earned first team all-district honors last season as a junior.
Women’s doubles dominate
Senior Olga Borisova (Minsk, Belarus) and sophomore Marianna
Yuferova (St. Petersburg, Russia), the 17th-ranked doubles team in the country, remained perfect Tuesday when they led the Rams to their 12th-consecutive win, a 6-1 victory over Brown at Thalhimer Tennis Center as VCU remained undefeated. The pair is 8-0 after an 8-1 win over Kelly Kirkpatrick and Ashley Pariser.
Other Rams who rounded out the top three spots with victories include Tatsiana Uvarova (Minsk, Belarus) and Vera Petrashevitch (St. Petersburg, Russia) nabbing second position. Camille Ripert (Lourmarin, France) and Viktoria Konstantinowva (Hanskovo, Bulgaria) secured the third seed in doubles. Uvarova and Borisova also picked up their ninth wins in singles play.