The Virginia women's lacrosse team started its season off on the wrong foot yesterday when it fell to William & Mary on the road, 13-10.
The Cavaliers (0-1) jumped to a 7-4 halftime lead behind a very balanced attack. Seven different players scored goals for Virginia in the first 30 minutes. The Aumiller connection also seemed to be working as sisters Lacey and Lauren assisted on each others' goals.
Virginia seemed to remain in the drivers seat early on in the second half as senior attack Jamie Haas scored the second of her three goals five minutes after the break. But the rest of the game belonged to the Tribe defense and offense. William & Mary (1-0) scored the next three goals to pull within one. Haas notched her third goal and temporarily held the Tribe charge at bay, but William & Mary scored the next five goals to jump to a 12-9 lead. Tribe senior attacker Lindsey Lowman assisted on four of her team's five goals during this run. She finished the game with six assists and tied the William & Mary school record for assists in one game.
Lauren Aumiller scored her second goal of the night off her sister's second assist to pull Virginia within two goals, but Tribe attacker Tara Hannaford squashed the Cavaliers' comeback hopes with a last minute goal.
Rams bowl over baseball
For the second time in three games, the Virginia baseball team could not pull out a win in extra innings.
After Penn State handed the Cavaliers their first loss on Sunday, a 7-6 10-inning defeat, Virginia (5-3) fell to VCU (5-5) by an identical score of 7-6 in 11 innings yesterday in Richmond.
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In the bottom of the 11th, tribe junior Joshua Arteaga lined a Greg Hansard pitch off the glove of Cav shortstop Hunter Wyant to score Matt Davis from second and win the game.
After Virginia took a 6-5 lead after six innings, VCU pitchers held the Cavs scoreless for the final five innings. The Cavaliers still lead by one heading into the bottom of the ninth, but VCU forced extra innings when Davis scored off a Danny Lopaze hit.
The Cavaliers also rescheduled their game against Maryland on April 21. The game was originally scheduled for 2 p.m. at the U.Va. Baseball Field, but now will start at noon.
Athletes score academic scholarships
The ACC awarded three Virginia athletes with the prestigious 2001 Weaver-James-Corrigan Postgraduate Scholarship yesterday. Senior swimmer Jamie Grimes, soccer midfielder Katie Tracy and field hockey forward Lorraine Vizzuso received $5,000 each for use toward graduate school studies.
Grimes, a distance swimmer, was a first-team All-American selection in 2000. He recently qualified for the NCAA Championship meet with two third-place finishes in the 2001 ACC Championship meet last weekend.
Tracy started all 20 games in her Virginia career and accumulated 49 points. The soccer star and co-captain also plays guard for the women's basketball team. The New York Power of the recently formed Women's United Soccer Association drafted Tracy with the fifth overall pick in the supplemental round.
Vizzuso's 96 career points off 38 goals and 20 assists ranks her seventh on the Cavaliers' all-time scoring list. She was named to the 2000 ACC All-Tournament team and earned All-ACC honors in 1999.
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