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Your Richmond Kickers haven’t won in their last 

eight matches (0-4-4, all platforms) … after 

dropping a 1-0 decision to North Carolina FC 

Saturday night at City Stadium … A crowd of 4,753 

saw former Duke standout ADAM LUCKHURST

 score the only goal in the 81stminute, flicking a 

header by goalkeeper PABLO JARA. The loss 

pretty much eliminated the Kickers from having any 

chance to win the Jagermeister Cup … They are 0-2, 

with both losses coming to members of the USL 

Championship (second division) League … 

including 4-1 to Louisville April 26 here.



Member of USL League One, a third-division circuit, 

Richmond currently is fifth (3-4-4, 13 points). The 

Kickers went into the weekend’s play with a league-

leading 19 goals … while allowing a co-high 18 … 

With 6 saves, Jara was named Man of the Match in 

what was anything but a defensive struggle, as the 

final score would seem to indicate.TREVOR 

MULQUEEN, in goal for NCFC playing only his 

second game of the season, also made some big 

saves … Kickers’ next game: Saturday at home (7 

p.m.) against 10th-place Texoma (2-2-5, 9 points) … 

that has scored 9 goals and allowed 18 for a league-

worst -9 differential. Next in the 14-team USL 

League One is last-place Union of Omaha with 

minus 5.


** NASCAR caught AJ ALMINDINGER’s pit 

crew doing something with his splitter and went off, 

telling his crew chief to go to his room and … what 

the heck is a splitter?



** So Mississippi State hired baseball coach deluxe

 BRIAN O’CONNOR away from Virginia, the 

University of. Wanna bet it had nothing to do with 

UVA and everything to do with the Atlantic Coast 

Conference?


** Hall of Fame-bound JUSTIN VERLANDER is 

0-3 in 10 starts (4.33 ERA) for San Francisco in 

what quite likely will be his final major-league 

season. Now 42, the native of Goochland, winner of 

three Cy Young awards, was signed to a one-year 

$15 million contract by San Francisco … which 

should have known better … Verlander is on the 

injured list and, wrote a SF columnist, “Once their 

pitching legend returns, Giants’ fans can only hope 

he can buck the aging process, if just for a while, and 

finish the season more gracefully than he started.” 


Until next time … 



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