Women's lacrosse closes regular season against archrival Hokies
By Matthew Morris | April 16, 2013Wednesday evening, the No. 16 Virginia women’s lacrosse team will take the field at Klöckner Stadium for its final game of the regular season.
Wednesday evening, the No. 16 Virginia women’s lacrosse team will take the field at Klöckner Stadium for its final game of the regular season.
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Virginia senior captain Jarmere Jenkins was named the ACC Men’s Tennis Player of the Week Tuesday, after leading the No. 1 Cavaliers (19-0, 8-0 ACC) to a pair of conference victories last weekend against No. 24 Clemson and Georgia Tech.
Currently in the midst of a six-game losing streak, the longest single-season streak for the program since 1939, the Cavaliers sit at 5-7 and winless in the ACC, needing to defeat Bellarmine and win the ACC Tournament to finish above .500 and have a prayer at making the NCAA Tournament.
The Virginia softball team battled conference foe Florida State this weekend in Tallahassee, dropping all three contests by scores of 3-2, 10-2, and 2-0. In the first half of the Sunday doubleheader, the Cavaliers (18-22, 3-12 ACC) fell by one run in eight innings.
After opening the weekend with two prolific offensive outbursts, the No. 1 North Carolina baseball team shut out Virginia Tech 3-0 Sunday to complete the sweep and tighten its stranglehold on ACC supremacy.
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As soon as the curtain closed on a surprisingly successful 2012-13 Virginia men’s basketball season, the team and its supporters turned their attention eagerly to next season, when the team was initially expected to return all starters except for senior point guard Jontel Evans and add a slew of talented contributors.
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The top-ranked Virginia men’s tennis team reached its milestone 100th consecutive ACC victory Friday with a 7-0 shutout against No. 25 Clemson, and then continued the streak with a 6-1 victory against Georgia Tech Saturday in Charlottesville.
The No. 17 Virginia women’s tennis team stretched its winning streak to six matches Saturday against No. 19 Georgia Tech in Atlanta before falling to No. 14 Clemson Sunday in South Carolina.
The No. 5 Virginia baseball team’s trip to Atlanta ended with an unfamiliar result Sunday as No. 17 Georgia Tech took the rubber match to hand the Cavaliers their first ACC series loss this season.
Leading 13-9 midway through the third quarter in a must-win game, the Virginia men’s lacrosse team looked poised to halt its five-game skid against No. 7 Duke at Koskinen Stadium. However, the Blue Devils would take control of the high-scoring contest late in the game, using a 10-1 run to come away with a 19-16 victory in both teams’ final regular season conference game.
Johns Hopkins freshman attacker Jenna Reifler unleashed what proved to be the deciding goal with 19.5 seconds remaining in a game the Cavaliers had described as a “must-win.”
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The Cavaliers will be in Atlanta Saturday looking to knock off No. 19 Georgia Tech before traveling to Clemson the following day to face No. 14 Clemson.
A shorthanded Virginia softball team swept Delaware State in a Wednesday afternoon doubleheader, 9-1 and 10-1, each in five innings.
Wednesday, more than a year after fellow Big South member Liberty stunned the home crowd, Radford flipped the script on the nation’s fifth-ranked team to earn its biggest upset in school history. The Highlanders blitzed junior starter Artie Lewicki in his long-awaited return from Tommy John surgery, tallying three runs in the top of the first and built a 9-1 lead through two innings.
Though Virginia sits at No. 11 in the current IWLCA Coaches Poll, every one of the Cavaliers, from coach Julie Myers to the last player off the bench, understands that their regular season, a day-by-day process begun in the cold of February, now rides on its last two contests.
After dropping its fifth straight game last Saturday in a 10-7 loss to No. 3 North Carolina, the Virginia men’s lacrosse team finds itself unranked for the first time since 2004 and in desperate need of a win as the Cavaliers close out their conference schedule on the road Friday against No. 7 Duke.