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(08/05/14 8:06pm)
Here it is, the fourth and final installment in The Cavalier Daily’s newest series, the Midsummers Minute. For this edition, Matt takes a preview of the fall sports season at Virginia. Miss the first three parts? Click here to read about the latest Cavaliers to join professional sports, here to catch up on the summer’s biggest professional sports updates and here for a look at the highlight and lowlights of the summer sports season so far.
(07/30/14 5:23pm)
Now time for the third installment in The Cavalier Daily’s newest series, the Midsummers Minute. For this edition, Matt and Ryan will look at the highlight and lowlights of the summer sports season so far. Miss the first two parts? Click here to read about the latest Cavaliers to join professional sports and here to catch up on the summer’s biggest professional sports updates.
(07/24/14 9:26am)
After Ryan’s recap of all the the Hoos now off to the pros — read it here — here’s all you need to know about the professional sporting world more broadly. Fair warning, it’s slightly overwhelming trying to condense everything into a few hundred words. That’s why I’m not going to even attempt the impossible — instead taking a page from the syllabus of, I assume, every creative writing professor and simply write what I know. With that in mind, a few sportive notes from these so-called dog days of summer (my German Shepherd resents the phrase):
(06/28/14 4:30pm)
A day after the thrill and heartbreak of the College World Series finals, the Virginia baseball team found itself back in Charlottesville – 1,187.4 miles from Omaha. The No. 1 team in Baseball America’s preseason rankings had finished second instead of first, runner-up instead of champion. Knowledge of that fact plainly stung.
(06/27/14 9:35pm)
The Cleveland Cavaliers Thursday night selected Joe Harris as the 33rd pick of the 2014 NBA Draft. League commissioner Adam Silver announced the selection on-stage at New York City’s Radio City Music Hall.
(06/26/14 4:45am)
Virginia baseball lost a 3-2 heartbreaker to Vanderbilt Wednesday night at TD Ameritrade Park in Omaha, just shy of capturing the 2014 College World Series title.
(06/25/14 5:00am)
Sophomore left-hander Brandon Waddell had never pitched past the eighth inning before Virginia’s 7-2 win against Vanderbilt Tuesday night.
(06/24/14 4:50am)
Virginia and Vanderbilt set the record for runs scored at TD Ameritrade Park in a College World Series game Monday night in the Finals’ opening act.
(06/22/14 1:23am)
The Virginia baseball team walked off the field on Saturday afternoon at TD Ameritrade Park in Omaha the winner of 52 games in 2014 and 463 since coach Brian O’Connor arrived in Charlottesville 11 years ago.
(06/18/14 6:15am)
It didn’t happen easily, but the Virginia baseball team is one win from the College World Series’ championship round. The No. 3 Cavaliers nipped No. 7 Texas Christian, 3-2, in a 15-inning affair that lasted until midnight Omaha time.
(06/16/14 4:28am)
All season long, the Virginia baseball team has thrived on lockdown pitching and exemplary defense. Sunday night in Omaha, the No. 3 Cavaliers rode those staples — and some timely hitting — to a 2-1 walk-off win against the University of Mississippi in the College World Series.
(06/10/14 5:04am)
It’s official: the Virginia baseball team is headed to Omaha.
(06/02/14 4:55am)
Just after 11:30 p.m. Sunday night, Virginia redshirt senior right-hander Whit Mayberry snuck a fastball by Arkansas junior designated hitter Krisjon Wilkerson to punctuate a 9-2 victory against the dangerous Razorbacks in the deciding game of the NCAA Baseball Championship’s Charlottesville Regional.
(05/18/14 10:56pm)
This Friday and Saturday, the Virginia baseball team concluded its regular-season and ACC schedules with a three-game series against ACC adversary Wake Forest in Winston-Salem, N.C. The top-ranked Cavaliers (43-11, 22-8 ACC) split a Friday doubleheader and fell by a run in a down-to-the wire Saturday finale, suffering their first losing weekend of 2014.
(05/14/14 3:07am)
Former Virginia baseball coach Dennis Womack delivered the ceremonial first pitch Tuesday night before the No. 1 Cavaliers faced off with in-state rival Virginia Commonwealth at Davenport Field. Then, Virginia and current dugout-man Brian O’Connor posted a wire-to-wire 12-3 win against the Rams to complete their home slate at 29-3.
(05/11/14 10:36pm)
Sunday, the Virginia baseball team completed a three-game sweep of Costal Division competitor Georgia Tech before 4,698 fans at Davenport Field. The No. 1 Cavaliers (41-9, 21-6 ACC) improved to 9-0 in ACC series on the year while honoring graduating seniors Austin Young, Artie Lewicki and Whit Mayberry, all right-handed pitchers.
(05/08/14 4:29am)
The Virginia baseball team returned to action Wednesday night after a weeklong hiatus for final exams, playing in-state adversary Liberty at Davenport Field. The No. 1 Cavaliers (38-9, 18-6 ACC) doused the No. 24 Flames, 8-2, as 4,354 fans—the largest-ever crowd for a Virginia midweek home game—looked on.
(04/28/14 3:52am)
The Monday before the Virginia baseball team played its first game of the 2014 season, coach Brian O’Connor addressed three rows of reporters from his seat at the podium in the Hall of Fame Room at Davenport Field. His ball club was ranked No. 1 in the Baseball America and Perfect Game preseason polls after a 50-12 campaign that had ended — just outside the room’s tall glass doors — in a Super Regional sweep by Mississippi State.
(04/25/14 9:58pm)
Virginia senior tight end Jake McGee announced Friday he will transfer to another program after graduating in May. The Richmond native lettered three times for Virginia and paced Cavalier pass-catchers with 43 receptions and 345 receiving yards in 2013.
(04/24/14 2:44am)
The 1980s was not exactly the decade of the home run. Sluggers Hank Aaron, Willie Mays and Babe Ruth were past their MLB playing days, and Barry Bonds was just beginning his. With Wednesday night bringing 80s Night to Davenport Field, however, the Virginia baseball team celebrated by launching long ball after long ball.