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What else are we mixing into today’s edition?

🏀 Women earn multiple awards
⚾️ Reinke’s pitches earn an honor
🕷️ And much, much more!

📈 STOCK UP

🔼 Major Awards. The women’s basketball team ended its regular season, and the Atlantic 10 Conference honored the Spiders with many awards. Addie Budnik earned Defensive Player of the Year. Rachel Ullstrom was named the A-10 Sixth Woman of the Year. Head Coach Aaron Roussell was named A-10 Coach of the Year. 🏀 Read more about the awards here.

🔼 Three-peat. The Atlantic 10 Conference named Jordan King Player of the Week for the third time this season. King averaged 27 points per game and shot 52% from the field in Richmond’s wins over Saint Louis and VCU. He went 7-9 from the three-point range in the Saint Louis game, matching the sixth-most three-pointers in a game in program history. 🏀 Here’s more about King. 🎟️ Get your tickets to the final regular season home game tonight.

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🔼 Throwing Heaters. With a career-high 10 strikeouts, Brian Reinke was named Atlantic 10 Conference Pitcher of the Week. Reinke had a great performance against Sacred Heart. He only allowed two hits and three walks over a career-high six innings of work. ⚾️ Read more about Reinke here.

🤔 SPIDERS TRIVIA

Ranking Reinke. Baseball pitcher Brian Reinke is ranked sixth in the league for walks allowed per nine innings.

How many walks has Reinke allowed?

Think you got it? Scroll on down to the bottom of this email for the answer!

🕷️ ONE BIG THING

Great Grayum. The A-10 named Luke Grayum Offensive Player of the Week for his outstanding performance in the men’s lacrosse win over Binghamton. Grayum led the Spiders with a career-high seven goals, which tied the program record for most goals in a single game. He also had a pair of caused turnovers. The team ranks third in the nation in scoring margin with an average of 7.20 more goals a game than their opponent. 🥍  Read more about Grayum and the team’s national rankings here.

📅 THE WEEK AHEAD

Wednesday, March 6

🥍 Women’s Lacrosse at Virginia @ 5pm ET | Watch | Live Stats
🏀 Men’s Basketball vs. Saint Joseph’s @ 7pm ET | Listen | Live Stats | Tickets

Friday, March 8

🏀 Women’s Basketball Atlantic 10 Championships | Tickets 
🎾 Men’s Tennis vs. Drexel
⚾️ Baseball vs. Marist @ 1:30pm ET | Watch | Live Stats
🥍 Men’s Lacrosse at UMBC @ 4pm ET

Saturday, March 9

 🎾 Men’s Tennis at Liberty
🥍 Women’s Lacrosse at Duquesne @ 12pm ET | Watch | Live Stats
⚾️ Baseball vs. Marist @ 1pm ET | Watch | Live Stats
🏀 Men’s Basketball at George Mason @ 2:30pm ET | Listen | Live Stats

Sunday, March 10

🎾 Men’s Tennis vs. Navy
⚾️ Baseball vs. Marist @ 12pm ET | Watch | Live Stats

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🎉 TRIVIA ANSWER

Answer: 1.80!

🕷️ Have a great Wednesday!

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