Sports In Brief

Men’s Tennis

TULSA, Okla. – VCU’s Arnaud Le Cloerec (Plouhinec, France) dropped out of the Polo Ralph Lauren All American Tennis Championships in the first round, losing to Oklahoma’s Marek Velicka, then lost the consolation first round to Andreas Siljestrom of Middle Tennessee State.

Volleyball

RICHMOND – The Rams split a pair of matches at the Siegel Center’s Alltel Pavilion this weekend, first winning 3-2 over Delaware on Friday, then losing Saturday’s game to Towson 2-3.

At Friday’s win against Delaware (30-17, 30-26, 25-30, 26-30, 15-10), Cat Juson (Long Beach, Calif.) set a CAA season-high record with 71 assists, 12 digs and three blocks.

For the match, the Rams hit for .288 against the Fightin’ Blue Hens’ .207.

During Saturday’s loss against Towson (22-30, 30-22, 30-27, 29-31, 12-15), Ludmila Francescatto (Fraiburga, Brazil) set a career record with 27 kills and gave the Rams 15 digs.

Saturday’s loss put the Rams at 10-9 in the regular season and 4-5 in the CAA.

Men’s cross country

GREENSBORO, N.C. – VCU finished first out of 16 teams Saturday in the Hagan Stone Park Cross Country Classic.

The Rams accumulated 49 points, nine points ahead of Duke, who placed second.

Cary Chaffee (Richmond/Hermitage HS) came in third overall, finishing the eight kilometer course in 25:23.3. Jay Wyss (Richmond/J.R. Tucker HS) placed sixth in 25:54.6, two seconds ahead of seventh-place Lukasz Matusiewicz (Warsaw, Poland) who finished in 25:56.7.

Men’s Soccer

RICHMOND – Friday’s game against ODU has been postponed, but the Rams lost Sunday to William & Mary 1-2 at SportsBackers Stadium.

Matthijs Maruanaya (Alkmaar, Netherlands) picked up Pat Viray’s (Reston/South Lakes HS) assist in the first half to put a header into the lower right corner of the goal.

In the second half, William & Mary’s Andrew Hoxie scored on a penalty kick to send the game into overtime with a 1-1 tie.

Hoxie scored the game point when he fired a loose ball from 15 yards out six minutes into overtime.

VCU collected twice as many fouls as William & Mary, 18-9, while William & Mary outshot VCU 8-12.