TRACK AND FIELD

Holloway posts day’s fastest time at worlds

Chesapeake’s Grant Holloway advanced through the first round of the 110-meter hurdles at the World Athletics Championships in Hungary on Sunday.

The Grassfield High graduate finished in 13.18 seconds, the fastest time of the day. The semifinals and final are Monday.

COLLEGE WOMEN’S SOCCER

Monarchs blank Campbell

Old Dominion (2-0) shut out Campbell 2-0 Sunday night in the Monarchs’ home opener.

Andrea Balcazar Algarin broke the tie in the 61st minute, heading in a pass from Anna Torslov into the right side of the net. Right-footed Ece Turkoglu doubled the lead in the 61st minute with her second goal of the year, making a steal and hitting a left-footed shot from beyond the 18-yard box.

The Monarchs outshot the Camels 18-4 and held Campbell (0-1-1), a new CAA member that won the Big South regular season last year, without a shot on goal.

W&M, St. Joe’s tie

Despite outshooting Saint Joseph’s, William & Mary women’s soccer played to a 0-0 draw with the Hawks in Philadelphia.

The Tribe, which beat Temple 4-0 Thursday, recorded its second straight shutout, marking the first time since 2011 that W&M recorded back-to-back clean sheets to start a season.

The Tribe (1-0-1), which outshot the Hawks 19-8, is unbeaten through two games for the first time since 2017.

Making her first start of the season, W&M junior goalkeeper Morgan Wood of nearby York, Pennsylvania, played all 90 minutes in goal and made three saves. Hawks keeper Katie Cappelletti made 10 stops.

Hampton drops to 0-2

Hampton (0-2) lost 3-0 to USC Upstate (1-0-1) at Powhatan Field in Norfolk.

The Pirates were outshot 20-5 by the Spartans, whose goals came from Hannah Blodget in the 41st minute, Ashley Finn at the 57-minute mark and Paige Armstrong in the 59th.

Alexis Deveaux made 11 saves for HU, while a pair of Upstate goalkeepers combined for two saves.

No. 5 UVA rolls past Radford

No. 5 Virginia (2-0) breezed past Radford 5-0 in Charlottesville, outshooting the Highlanders 24-1. Maggie Cagle scored 49 seconds into the match and again in the 12th minute.

Sarah Brunner, Yuna McCormack and Maya Carter added goals in the 24th, 69th and 76th minutes, respectively. The Highlanders fell to 1-1.

Hokies tie Indiana

Virginia Tech (1-0-1) played a scoreless draw at Indiana (1-0-1) despite being outshot 11-4.

The Hokies’ Alia Skinner made four saves, while the Hoosiers’ Jamie Gerstenberg made two.

HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL

IWA romps in exhibition

Isle of Wight Academy defeated Arcadia 43-0 in a preseason benefit exhibition game Friday night as Luke Dunlap scored two touchdowns. One was a 15-yard reception from Jason Chapman, who ran for two short TDs.

Jack Baker’s 8-yard run, Jett Williams’ 21-yard run and Sawyer Conrad’s safety also provided points for the Chargers. So did three PATs apiece from Will Bauman and Jayden Parsons.

BOWLING

Pennsylvania wins $8K at AMF W. Branch

Anthony Neuer of Milton, Pennsylvania, won twice in the stepladder finals for the championship of the PBA Booster Club of Hampton Roads Chesapeake Super Regional.

Neuer, who qualified in the second position among the 34 players who advanced to Sunday’s “cashers round” at AMF Western Branch, defeated Ryan Ciminelli of Clover, South Carolina, 265-215 in a semifinal before knocking off No. 1 qualifier Tim Foy Jr. of Seaford, Delaware, 233-200 to win the $8,000 first-place prize. Foy took $4,000.

A hundred bowlers rolled eight games apiece Saturday, and approximately the best third advanced to Sunday. Further cuts after 12, 15 and 17 total games established the five-man stepladder finals.

The top finisher from Hampton Roads, Norfolk’s Mathew Woodall, placed eighth with a 224.47 per-game average, winning $900. Zachary Tackett of Virginia Beach, who grew up in Indiana, placed 11th, two spots ahead of his brother EJ — who has won four major PBA Tour titles and is regarded by some as the world’s best active bowler.

Chesapeake’s Roscoe Pretlow (21st) and Newport News’ Chris Bolosan (23rd) were among the $550 winners, and Chesapeake’s Brandon Smith (33rd) took home $500.

VOLLEYBALL

U.S. men take fifth at Pan Am Cup

The United States team, including two players who grew up in the Coastal Virginia Volleyball Club, took fifth place in the NORCECA Pan American Cup in Guadalajara, Mexico.

After going 2-0 in group play, the Americans lost 3-0 to Canada (25-20, 25-20, 27-25) in a quarterfinal. They bounced back to defeat Colombia 3-0 (25-18, 25-20, 25-15) for fifth.

Against Canada, outside hitter Brett Wildman, a Cox High graduate, had eight kills. His former club and Penn State teammate Cole Bogner, a setter in his first tournament playing for the U.S., helped the team to a .438 percentage.

Wildman and Bogner both started against Colombia and now plan to compete professionally, Wildman in Romania and Bogner in the Netherlands.

GOLF

UVA’s James makes Walker Cup team

Virginia men’s golfer Ben James of Milford, Connecticut, was named to the United States Golf Association’s Walker Cup team Sunday.

Also named were Nick Gabrelcik, (Trinity, Florida), Austin Greaser (Vandalia, Ohio), Stewart Hagestad (Newport Beach, California), Dylan Menante (Carlsbad, California) and Preston Summerhays  (Scottsdale, Arizona).

Those six players join Nick Dunlap, David Ford, Gordon Sargent and Caleb Surratt, all of whom were previously selected to the team.

The U.S. will compete against Great Britain and Ireland in the 49th Walker Cup Match on Sept. 2-3 at the Old Course in St. Andrews, Scotland.

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