Before the tip, before the band even blared, there was a pause on Thursday night at John Paul Jones Arena. Senior guards Ataira Franklin, Lexie Gerson and Kelsey Wolfe stood at midcourt alongside coach Joanne Boyle, arms draped around one another’s shoulders. It was senior night for the Cavalier captains, the culmination of many nights of basketball in Charlottesville.
“The Skinny” on weekend matchups for baseball, men’s and women’s lacrosse, women’s tennis and softball.
On a night when the No. 12 Virginia men’s basketball team made the Hurricanes’ play resemble a brisk wind, picking up its 12th consecutive victory and program-record 15th ACC win, the story wasn’t about the Cavaliers’ 65-40 decimation of Miami.
The Virginia men’s tennis team will return to the Snyder Tennis Center outdoor courts this weekend for the first time this year. The Cavaliers will play a slew of challenging contests, with a Saturday matchup against Baylor and Sunday matchups against Liberty and ACC foe Notre Dame.
The No. 12 Virginia men’s basketball team continued their conference roll Wednesday night, topping Miami 65-40 at John Paul Jones Arena.
The Virginia indoor track and field team will compete at the ACC Championship this weekend in Clemson, S.C., where three days’ worth of events between the conference’s best will culminate in the crowning of champions on March 1.
The Virginia women’s basketball team plays its last home game of the season Thursday against Miami, as both teams aim to finish with winning records. The Cavaliers (13-14, 6-8 ACC) were one game above .500 last week before their matchup against two ranked ACC opponents, North Carolina and NC State.
Spring is almost here. We are caught in limbo between down jackets and sweatshirts, heading to the gym or running outdoors, and of course, between winter and spring sports. But this is hardly a bad thing.
February 28, 2013. Virginia has just ousted No. 3 Duke, 73-68, but something other than the game’s outcome is grinding Blue Devils coach Mike Krzyzewski’s gears.
March 1 is coming… If we’re really lucky, we might get to see another Jim Boeheim last second meltdown.
The No. 12 Virginia Cavaliers will look to extend their winning streak to 12 games when they take on the Miami Hurricanes Wednesday night in Charlottesville. A win against Miami would mark coach Tony Bennett’s 100th career win with Virginia.
The Cavaliers (6-2), who lost for the first time since their season-opener against Kentucky, proved largely unable to solve sophomore long reliever Taylor Edens, who followed senior lefthander Campbell Henkel with five, two-hit innings out of the bullpen.
The No. 4 Virginia men’s lacrosse team continued its winning ways Tuesday, routing Mount St. Mary’s 14-6. After starting the season with three straight one-goal victories, the Cavaliers’ high-octane offense has come to life in their last two games, posting a combined 15-goal margin of the victory in those contests.
This past weekend, Virginia coach Augie Busch showed the conference that there was no drop-off from last season, former coach Mark Bernardino’s last.
This was banner season for 12th-ranked Virginia wrestling. The Cavaliers (18-3, 5-1 ACC) recorded the second-most wins in program history, made then-No. 8 Virginia Tech their highest-ranked victim ever while snapping an eight-match losing streak to the Hokies, and captured their first Virginia Duals banner.
In an exciting back-and-forth contest, NC State senior forward Kody Burke struck with 11 seconds remaining to dash the hopes of the upset-minded Cavaliers.
Last Sunday against East Carolina, No. 1 Virginia baseball’s batting order included the reigning ACC Player of the Week, last year’s conference batting champion, two players honored as Baseball America Preseason All-Americans and the 2013 ACC Freshman of the Year. Despite this, the player who gave the Pirates’ staff the most trouble in the Cavaliers’ 6-2 victory may well have been Matt Thaiss, the freshman designated hitter who ended the day 3 for 4 with a pair of doubles, two runs scored and an RBI.
The No. 13 Virginia women’s tennis team made school history Friday, upsetting No. 1 Duke 5-2 to earn the program’s first home victory against a top-ranked opponent. After handing the Blue Devils their first loss of the season, the Cavaliers traveled to No. 62 Boston College to face the Eagles Sunday. Virginia managed keep its ACC record perfect, defeating the Eagles 6-1 to improve to 7-2 on the season.
Virginia softball could not buck their losing ways at the Mary Nutter Classic. The Cavaliers (2-11) won only one of the weekend’s five games despite showing much more life at the plate.
The Virginia baseball team blasted a leadoff home run this weekend at Davenport Field, sweeping East Carolina in its first home series of the 2014 season. The No. 6 Cavaliers, playing before the largest home crowd for a February series in program history, extended their winning streak to six games.
