{"id":2440,"date":"2011-05-17T22:25:04","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T02:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=2440"},"modified":"2011-05-17T22:25:04","modified_gmt":"2011-05-18T02:25:04","slug":"diamond-dukes-last-thing-between-jmusb-and-stadiumgasm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=2440","title":{"rendered":"Diamond Dukes last thing between JMUSB and stadiumgasm"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2441\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Ancarrow.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2441\" data-attachment-id=\"2441\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?attachment_id=2441\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Ancarrow.jpg?fit=400%2C299&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"400,299\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Ancarrow\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Great season ladies!&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Ancarrow.jpg?fit=300%2C224&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Ancarrow.jpg?fit=400%2C299&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2441\" title=\"Ancarrow\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Ancarrow.jpg?resize=300%2C224\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Ancarrow.jpg?resize=300%2C224&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Ancarrow.jpg?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2441\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Great season ladies!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Unfortunately, the Lacrosse team&#8217;s valiant <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jmusports.com\/ViewArticle.dbml?&amp;SPSID=71045&amp;SPID=8116&amp;DB_OEM_ID=14400&amp;ATCLID=205150587\">comeback attempt<\/a> in the first round of the NCAA tourney fell short in an 11-10 loss to Princeton.\u00a0 This means only the baseball team&#8217;s CAA tourney run coming up Memorial Day weekend and hopefully a run towards Omaha following that stand between JMU Nation and the chance to fully focus our energy on the countdown to the trip to Chapel Hill to take on the Tarheels Labor Day weekend.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Seriously baseball, get this run going or I&#8217;m going to drive everyone around me nuts talking about Central Connecticut St. and whether the new stadium makes JMU, and by extension the UPB, capable of hosting a major concert tour now.<\/p>\n<p>Ok, we&#8217;re also working up some big plans for the summer including bringing back last year&#8217;s wildly successful (too much?) opponent and CAA football previews, hopefully including some back and forth with some of the other CAA blogs we&#8217;ve met this year.\u00a0 Damn skippy there are other CAA blogs.\u00a0 Highly recommend <a href=\"http:\/\/defiantlydutch.blogspot.com\/\">Defiantly Dutch<\/a> though they won&#8217;t be covering football.\u00a0 And best of all, we&#8217;ve got the Late 90&#8217;s\u00a0JMU Music Scene Bracket, featuring McGraw Gap and sponsored by the Blue Fox,\u00a0debuting in the next couple of weeks.<\/p>\n<p>In other JMUSB news, the DC\/Nova Duke Club is having a Happy Hour this Thursday at Clarendon Ballroom.\u00a0 I think we aged out of this venue half a decade ago, but should be a good time and always good to support the DC.<\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fjmusportsblog.com%2F%3Fp%3D2440&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=80\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; 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