Virginia Golf 2009-02-13

Vandals caused an estimated usd. 100,000 in damage to the Wolf Creek Golf and Country Club on Feb. 8, state police said on Wednesday.

Two golf carts were totalted and two others were damaged after vandals drove two of the vehicles into the water and used them to do doughnuts on the greens and fairways, police said.

Conroy urged anyone with information about the crime to contact the Virginia State Police at 228-3131.

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Having said that, it was maybe the toughest year of my life. I had two former (Marshall) players killed, my best friend back in West Virginia is struggling with cancer and my brother passed away this year. My wife had two major surgeries and Ive had shoulder surgery.

Prior to his college coaching tenure, Pruett spent 14 years coaching at the high school level. From 1965-66 he was an assistant football coach, head golf coach and head wrestling coach at Falls Church (Va. ) High. From 1967-69 he was assistant football coach and head wrestling coach at Hayfield High in Alexandria, Va.

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Shot at Mill River Golf Course in Prince Edward Island, it marks the first time a Canadian location has hosted Big Break. Located in the Gulf of St. Lawrence on Canadas east coast, Prince Edward Island boasts more than 32 courses that span from one end of the Island to the other. One of Canadas top golf destinations, Prince Edward Island offers other recreational activities, including kayaking, cycling, touring, or lazing on a sandy beach.

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For the first time, contestants on Big Break will compete for cash - usd. 100,000 to be exact - that can provide the winner a means to finance their dream of playing on a Tour for an entire year. - Media golf news business news golf business news

Feb. 7, Appalachian Trail in Virginia: A 21-mile hike that begin at Snickers Gap and proceeds north to David Lessor Shelter. 410-926-9298.

Rocky Point Senior Mens Golf Club seeks members for the 2009 season, age 60 and older. Games every other Thursday from April until .

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Indistinguishable among the corps were the 15 members of the VMI mens basketball team, which 12 hours later would thrash NAIA neighbor Southern Virginia 113-92, pushing its record to 17-3 entering Monday nights game against Big South rival UNC-Asheville. As January drew to a close, the Keydets of VMI led the conference with an 8-1 record. They had begun their season with an epic 111-103 November upset of Kentucky at Rupp Arena and scarcely slowed since, leading the nation in scoring (with 96. 0 points per game), three-pointers (14. 1) and steals (14. 5) thanks to a withering combination: full-court pressure defense to force turnovers and quick-trigger shooting from beyond the arc. Senior wings

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To appreciate the small miracle of Virginia Military Institute basketball, you must go to the Hill at dawn. You must wait under a purple winter sky, with a hard frost beneath your feet and dense fog lying low across the surrounding Shenandoah Valley. Then you must train your eyes on the olive-drab stone walls of the four-story gothic barracks rising from the west end of the parade grounds, for

IN 1978, a group of friends got together on New Years morning to play 18 holes of golf at Goose Creek Country Club in Leesburg. The winter event was moved to Super Bowl Sunday in 1990. Thirty-one years later, at Viennas Westwood Country Club, the original participants, most of whom are now in their 60s and 70s, are joined by a younger generation in this annual "Freeze Bowl" tradition. Approximately half of the 12-man group lives or works in the Vienna-Oakton area and all are Northern Virginia natives.

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Sure there are sporting events. Go Hokies. Theres the inevitable trip "downtown" so many of us look forward to every week (insert smiley). Go Hokies. Some even get involved with intramurals, special clubs, the student government, programs, services and organizations. Go Hokies. But in my time at Virginia Tech, I have become fairly disappointed in the number of programs and organizations meant to cultivate the true talents and gifts of this Hokie Nation.

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For 42 years, the York Chapter, Chesapeake Bay Foundation racked up local-level accomplishments that other groups of modest size and resources might envy. Its legacy includes lasting protection for the Goodwin Islands, an expanse of undisturbed wetlands at the mouth of the York River. It also blew the whistle on fly ash contamination at the headwaters of Chisman Creek, a York tributary, which became one of the first EPA Superfund sites in Virginia.

Dr. Maurice Lynch, a past board president and retired researcher at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, said the appearance of this group got his attention. Through his Baywide work, Lynch knew that advocacy groups were forming along Maryland waterways. "That didnt exist in Virginia, in part because our rivers are so much bigger and the population pressure wasnt as high," Lynch said. "So this was something new. "

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Briefs: CMUs Jones gets contract extension The Detroit News

Told a federal bankruptcy judge in Newport News, Va. , that the imprisoned NFL star could be transferred to a halfway house in Virginia any day.

Ginn announced on Wednesday it was ending all golf sponsorships immediately, including for an LPGA event.

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In his first interview since excerpts of The Yankee Years became public, former Yankees manager Joe Torre told Larry King on Friday night that hes shocked by the uproar its caused. Torre said the book, due out Tuesday, is merely an honest account of his time managing the high-profile - Detroit Michigan press More Sports News local news headlines Detroit News staff wires

At its meeting last week, the supervisors authorized the advertisement of a hearing at 7:30 p. m. on on an option to convey to the company an electric power line easement right of way to make room for a portion of the overhead transmission lines on the Front Royal Golf Club property. The 4-acre easement is near a corner of the property and has no effect on the existing or future operations at the golf course, County Attorney Blair Mitchell said. The golf club parcel from which the easement would be acquired is 99. 37 acres.

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