Virginia looks to go above .500 in ACC
After toppling Florida State, 66-62, on Wednesday, the Virginia women's basketball team (11-8, 4-4 ACC) now sets its sights on Chapel Hill, where it will take on ACC foe North Carolina (14-5, 4-3) on Sunday.
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After toppling Florida State, 66-62, on Wednesday, the Virginia women's basketball team (11-8, 4-4 ACC) now sets its sights on Chapel Hill, where it will take on ACC foe North Carolina (14-5, 4-3) on Sunday.
The Virginia women's basketball team opened a six-game homestand last night with a 76-51 win over Howard. Freshmen Lynette O'Reggio and LaTonya Blue led the Cavaliers offensively by scoring double-doubles in Virginia's first-ever meeting with the Bison (1-2).
RICHMOND - Virginia women's basketball rolled into the Robins Center last night with hopes of improving its season record to 2-0, but found an aggressive Richmond team gunning for its first-ever win against the Cavaliers. Virginia fell, 77-72, and dropped to .500 on its young season despite a 26-point offensive effort by freshman Brandi Teamer.
Virginia women's basketball will open its season on the road at Hampton tonight after winding up its preseason schedule, 1-1. The Cavaliers fell to the Moscow Dynamo, 84-72, Nov. 5, but rebounded to beat the Houston Jaguars, 72-67, Nov. 8.
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - ãWake Forest handed the Virginia field hockey team a 5-1 loss Sunday in the second round of the NCAA tournament to put an end to the Cavaliers' season. Virginia ended coach Jessica Wilk's second year at the helm with a 14-8 overall record.
No. 10 Virginia field hockey (13-7) will head to Winston-Salem, N.C., tomorrow to take on No. 5 Ohio State (15-4) in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. The winner will go on to face the winner of the Wake Forest-Ohio University game in Sunday's regional final.
Virginia women's basketball found its legs last night in the second and final exhibition game of its preseason. The Cavaliers topped the Houston Jaguars, 72-67, behind 17 points from freshman LaTonya Blue, 10 points from freshman Jocelyn Logan-Friend and 36 solid minutes from senior Telisha Quarles at point guard.
After soundly defeating Duke, 3-1, on Thursday, the Virginia field hockey team exited the ACC tournament Friday unsatisfied following a 4-1 loss to eventual tournament champion Maryland. The Terrapins played aggressive hockey and nearly silenced the Cavaliers' offense.
The most competitive field hockey conference in the nation pits the best college teams against each other this weekend when the ACC Championship tournament kicks off in Chapel Hill, N.C. Top-seeded Maryland has earned a bye in the first round. No. 4 seed Virginia faces No. 5 seed Duke on Thursday and No. 2 seed Wake Forest takes on the No. 3 seed North Carolina on Friday.
DURHAM, N.C. - A rowdy crowd was out to support the Duke men's soccer team Saturday at Koskinen Stadium. But with less than two minutes into sudden-death overtime, Alecko Eskandarian silenced it.
DURHAM, N.C. - They needed overtime to do it, but the No. 13 Virginia women's soccer team (11-2, 3-1 ACC) dispatched ACC cellar-dweller Duke, 2-1, on Saturday night to take its seventh consecutive win.
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - The No. 8 Virginia field hockey team (10-5, 1-2 ACC) headed to Wake Forest yesterday with hopes of once again knocking off a top-three team as it did in Maryland three weeks ago, but this time, it was not to be.
After a 4-1 loss to North Carolina on Sunday, the Virginia field hockey team (9-4) rallied to shut out Radford, 3-0, yesterday on a chilly evening at University Hall Turf Field. Senior co-captain Jessie Coleman, junior Katie Slocum and freshman Kiersten Van Hooser each put an unassisted goal on the board to hand the Cavaliers a relatively easy victory over the Highlanders (3-11).
Overtime has been kind to the Cavaliers this season. The No. 8 Virginia field hockey team remained perfect in overtime after pulling out a 2-1 victory over No. 15 James Madison (8-5) last night at University Hall Turf Field.
After a slow start out of the gate, No. 8 Virginia field hockey finally came alive last night to down Appalachian State, 4-0, at University Hall Turf Field. The Mountaineers have yet to score a single goal on the Cavaliers in the two teams' five meetings.
WILLIAMSBURG - After Sunday's overtime upset over No. 1 Maryland, No. 8 Virginia field hockey was unable to overcome a 2-1 deficit and fell to William & Mary for the first time since 1995. The No. 12 Tribe (9-2) are off to their best start since 1980.
COLLEGE PARK, Md. - It doesn't get much closer than this. After a marathon double-overtime battle with No. 1 Maryland, Cavalier freshman Emily Beach put the fifth and deciding penalty stroke into the cage to lift No. 11 Virginia over the Terrapins, 3-2, and give the Cavalier field hockey program its first- ever defeat of a No. 1 team.
No. 12 Virginia field hockey fell to 2000 NCAA Champion Old Dominion, 3-2, yesterday at University Hall Turf Field after ODU managed to force 16 penalty corners to the Cavaliers' four.
In its first home game of the season, Virginia field hockey handed previously unbeaten Richmond (5-1) a 2-0 loss yesterday night at University Hall Turf Field. No. 12 Virginia (4-1) looked aggressive behind the offense of senior co-captain Mason White and sophomore Kiersten Van Hooser, both of whom notched goals for the Cavaliers.
The Virginia women's field hockey team will resume its regular season schedule tonight at Klockner Stadium against an undefeated Richmond squad that is off to its best start in school history. The Cavaliers head into the game after shutting out Southwest Missouri State, 4-0, in Athens, Ohio, on Sunday for their third consecutive win.