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CHARLOTTESVILLE — Virginia was perfect in the Charlottesville Regional, and with an 8-3 win over East Carolina on Sunday, the Cavaliers are now headed to the Super Regionals.
The victory was UVA’s second in as many days over the Pirates. Virginia’s opponent in the Supers hasn’t been decided yet, with Duke and Coastal Carolina set to battle one more time Monday to decide the winner of the Conway Regional....

MADISON, Ill. — Kyle Busch had been in and out of his car through a lengthy weather delay. He had idled on the track through two red flags. He had kept his poise through 11 cautions, including five down the stretch as he tried to protect his lead.
It must have seemed like Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race, at World Wide Technology Raceway at Gateway, would never end....

Two former William & Mary men’s players competed for a team that took the winner-take-all $1 million first prize Sunday in the first edition of The Soccer Tournament.
Marcel Berry and William Eskay played for Newtown Pride FC, based in Sandy Hook, Connecticut — a city thrust into the limelight in 2012 because of a deadly mass shooting at elementary school — in the 7-v-7 event....

A pair of all-Hampton Roads semifinals in Class 5 will highlight Monday’s competition across the state in VHSL tennis semifinals.
The teams are trying to book tickets to the championship matches Thursday. In Classes 6, 5 and 4, they will be at Huntington Park in Newport News; in Classes 3, 2 and 1, they will be at Virginia Tech’s Burrows/Burleson Tennis Center....