The Cavalier women's lacrosse team opened the season with a 12-4 win at Richmond yesterday. Freshman midfielder Lauren Aumiller registered her first collegiate hat trick and senior midfielder Jamie Haas scored four goals.
Virginia (1-0) jumped to a 3-0 lead, but Richmond (0-1) finally answered with 15:29 to play as Jessie Popham scored to cut the lead to two. Six seconds later Cavalier midfielder Mills Hook scored on a fast break to push the lead back to three. Virginia scored twice more to close the first half with a 6-3 lead.
The Spiders scored just 1:03 into the second half but could only watch as the Cavaliers scored another six points to extend their lead to eight.
Senior Kelly Allenbach and sophomore Gina Sambus also scored for the Cavs. Virginia goalie Frances Segarra totaled eight saves, seven in the first half.
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Virginia's home opener is Saturday against No. 16 Syracuse.
Shooting stars
As the Virginia women's basketball team prepares to storm into the ACC Tournament Friday as the No. 1 seed, a quartet of Cavaliers can celebrate All-Conference honors.
Junior forward Svetlana Volnaya, who topped the ACC with 15.5 points-per-game in league play, was named to the All-Conference first team.
The second team featured Virginia freshman forward Schuye LaRue and senior point guard Renee Robinson, both of whom received an additional honor. LaRue led all Conference rookies in voting for the All-Freshman team and Robinson earned a spot on the All-Defensive team.
Cavalier sophomore guard Telisha Quarles received an All-ACC honorable mention.
Joining Volnaya on the All-ACC first team were Duke guard Peppi Browne and forward Georgia Schweitzer, North Carolina forward LaQuanda Barksdale and N.C. State center Summer Erb.
Up in the rafters
Former North Carolina forward Antawn Jamison had his No. 33 jersey retired when the Tar Heels hosted Georgia Tech last night. The 1998 National Player of the Year is one of only seven Tar Heel greats to receive the honor, a list that includes Michael Jordan, James Worthy and Phil Ford.
Vince Carter, Jamison's former Carolina teammate, will have his jersey retired next year at a date to be determined.
Would you like fries with that?
Three young men who will play next year in the ACC were among the 24 high school basketball players named to the 2000 McDonald's All-American team Monday.
Chris Duhon, a 6-foot-1 shooting guard from Louisiana who has signed with Duke, was named to the West team. The East roster features future N.C. State shooting guard Scooter Sherrill, a 6-foot-3 North Carolina native, and Tar Heel recruit Neil Fingleton, a 7-foot-6 behemoth who prepped at Holy Name Academy in Massachusetts.
The game will be played March 29 at the Fleet Center in Boston.
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