COLLEGE FOOTBALL
Virginia Tech quarterback Grant Wells has made the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award watch list for the second straight season.
The transfer from Marshall passed for 2,171 yards and nine touchdowns and ran for 212 yards and six scores for the Hokies last season.
North Carolina State’s Brennan Armstrong, a transfer from Virginia, was one of eight other ACC quarterbacks to make the Unitas list. The others were Wake Forest’s Mitch Griffis, Pitt’s Phil Jurkovec, Duke’s Riley Leonard, North Carolina’s Drake Maye, Syracuse’s Garrett Shrader, Florida State’s Jordan Travis and Miami’s Tyler Van Dyke.
WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Tourney foes set for Virginia Tech, UVA
Both Virginia Tech and Virginia will play in the inaugural Cayman Islands Classic women’s basketball tournament on Nov. 24-25.
The Hokies, who reached the Final Four and finished No. 4 in the final AP poll last season, will face Kansas, last season’s WNIT champion, at 5 p.m. on Nov. 24 and Tulane at 11 a.m. on Nov. 25.
The Cavaliers, who finished 15-15 last season, will meet Tulane at 11 a.m. on Nov. 24 in the tournament’s opening game and then take on defending national champion LSU at 5 p.m. on Nov. 25.
UConn, UCLA and Niagara will round out the eight-team field. The Huskies were ranked sixth in the final AP poll last season, while UCLA was 14th.
TENNIS
Former ODU star falls in US Open qualifying
Former Old Dominion star Yuliia Starodubtseva lost to Celine Naef of Switzerland 7-5, 4-6, 4-6 in the first round of singles qualifying for the U.S. Open.
Starodubtseva earned a spot in qualifying by winning the Dallas Open 60k on July 30. It was her third International Tennis Federation event victory.
The Kakhovka, Ukraine, native helped lead the Monarchs to two straight Conference USA titles and was C-USA Player of the Year both seasons.
COLLEGE SOCCER
CNU picked No. 2 in C2C preseason poll
The Christopher Newport men’s soccer team has been picked to finish second in the Coast-To-Coast Athletic Conference preseason coaches poll, released on Tuesday.
Mary Washington edged the Captains for the top spot with 47 points and five first-place votes. CNU finished with 45 points and three first-place votes.
The Captains, ranked No. 21 in the United Soccer Coaches preseason poll, are coming off a third consecutive postseason appearance.
Wisconsin-Whitewater is third in the poll, followed by Salisbury.
CNU will open the season Sept. 1 against Berry College at 5 p.m. in the Steve Shaw Classic at Captains Field.
WOMEN’S COLLEGE SOCCER
UVA stays at No. 5
Virginia remained ranked No. 5 in the United Soccer Coaches Top 25 poll this week.
The Cavaliers are 2-0 after 5-0 victories over Nevada and Radford.
UVA will host Michigan at 8:15 p.m. Thursday.
COLLEGE ROWING
ODU to compete in five fall regattas
The Old Dominion rowing team will compete in five regattas this fall, the program announced Tuesday.
The Monarchs, coached by Brian Conley, will open the season Oct. 7 at the Head of the Ohio, which takes place on the Ohio River in Pittsburgh.
After that, ODU will compete in the Navy Day Regatta on Oct. 15 on the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia and the Head of the Charles Regatta on Oct. 21-22 on the Charles River in Boston.
The Monarchs will host the Head of the Lafayette on Oct. 29 on the Lafayette River in Norfolk before concluding the season Nov. 4 at the Head of the Occoquan on the Occoquan Reservoir in Fairfax.
