“The Skinny” on weekend matchups for track and field, baseball, men’s lacrosse, softball, women’s lacrosse, men’s golf, women’s tennis and men’s tennis
As a coach, succeeding a legend is one of the toughest jobs in all of sports, especially in collegiate athletics.
The No. 5 Virginia women’s lacrosse team continued its three-game winning streak Wednesday night with a 16-6 win against in-state opponent William & Mary in Williamsburg. Virginia (7-4, 1-2 ACC) took an early 2-0 lead, but William & Mary (4-5) stayed close until the Cavaliers closed out the half scoring three unanswered goals to take an 8-4 lead into the break. Virginia extended its lead in the second half on a free position goal by junior attacker Kelly Boyd after the Cavaliers won the opening draw control.
Virginia softball dropped its Wednesday contest against George Washington, 5-2. The Colonials took advantage of a four-run third inning to survive a late comeback bid by the Cavaliers.
As collegiate athletics become more and more competitive, it is rare to find many Division I athletes with less than a decade of experience in their sport.
Fresh off a shutout loss to Georgetown, No. 12 Virginia baseball defeated Liberty, 10-7, in what can only be characterized as a bat-swinging contest.
The No. 2 Virginia women’s rowing team is back on the water and is already in the midst of the spring season. In the next few weeks the Cavaliers will see 15 of the other 19 top-20 crews leading into the ACC and NCAA championships.
The Virginia softball team (7-25, 1-8 ACC) will face George Washington (13-11, 0-2 A-10) for the second time this year as it attempts to avenge its loss to the Colonials earlier in the season.
Entering Tuesday night, four of the Virginia men’s lacrosse team’s six wins on the season had been decided by one goal. But against Virginia Military Institute, the Cavaliers were finally able to roll, and they rolled big.
Virginia (14-8, 3-6 ACC) did indeed get the pitching performance it needed, but the offense could get nothing going as the Hoyas (9-10) won 1-0. It marks the second time the Cavaliers have been shutout this season. Prior to Tuesday, Virginia had not been shutout at home since Feb. 28, 2012 against Liberty.
Let’s flip the script and talk about everything that’s gone right for Virginia athletics in recent months. It’s time to give credit where credit is due to some exceptional teams this great university saw compete during the winter season.
The No. 5 Virginia women’s lacrosse team looks to continue its season-best three-game win streak — all against ranked teams — Wednesday when it travels to face in-state opponent William & Mary.
Seven, twelve, fifteen. The increasing amount of walks, respectively, issued by Virginia’s pitching staff in last weekend’s home series loss to Florida State acts as a euphemism for the Cavaliers’ recent and steep decline in play in the past few weeks
About a month ago, Fox Sports released a promo for their upcoming coverage of the 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup titled “It’s Not Over.” However, the Women’s World Cup should be celebrated without association with a lesser-accomplished male counterpart — because for them, it was never over.
Dominant. Resilient. Monumental. Any of these would accurately describe the Virginia men’s tennis team’s two wins this weekend over ACC foes Notre Dame (10-7, 2-3 ACC) and Boston College (6-9, 0-4 ACC).
The now No. 5-ranked Virginia women’s lacrosse team ended No. 4 Duke’s undefeated season Saturday with a 13-10 victory at Klöckner Stadium and clinched a season-best three-game winning streak.
The week prior to Virginia’s game against Syracuse, coach Dom Starsia announced another captain who, four years ago, wasn’t even sure if he would make the team.
Virginia’s Tony Bennett has been named the U.S. Basketball Writers Association’s Henry Iba National Coach of the Year.
The No. 8 Virginia women’s tennis team opened this past weekend with a 4-3 win over No. 15 Clemson, but the Cavaliers followed up with their first ACC loss of the season in Sunday’s match against No. 24 Duke.
Virginia senior Nick Sulzer ended his illustrious career with an exclamation point at the NCAA wrestling championships in St.
