Early offense lifts Cavs to victory against Towson
By Cavalier Daily Staff | March 25, 2009Virginia bounced back from its two-game losing streak with a dominant 13-4 win against Towson yesterday evening at Davenport Field.The No.
Virginia bounced back from its two-game losing streak with a dominant 13-4 win against Towson yesterday evening at Davenport Field.The No.
This year was going to be different. Sure, point guard Sharne
The No. 10 Virginia women?s lacrosse team topped No. 18 JMU 18-9 last night in Harrisonburg, Va., ending a three-game losing streak against ranked opponents.The Cavaliers (7-3, 1-2 ACC) scored 12 goals in the second half and were led by senior midfielders Blair Weymouth and Ashley McCulloch, along with junior attack Whitaker Hagerman, who each scored a hat trick.
Men?s BasketballThe performance of ACC teams in the NCAA Tournament the past weekend was mediocre, and they came nowhere near the success of representing teams from the rival Big East, which still has five of the eight teams it sent to the tourney.
Eventually, every song must stop and every dance must come to an end.Unfortunately for the Virginia women?s basketball team, the fun came to a halt all too early, as a dominant California team ousted the Cavaliers 99-73 in the second round of the NCAA Tournament last night.
After an ACC series loss this weekend, the Virginia baseball team remains in Charlottesville for a two-day set Tuesday and Wednesday against Towson.Towson (12-10, 1-2 CAA) will be a tough competitor in the midweek for Virginia.
Looking through the window of my hotel room and down at the street 21 stories below, one would have witnessed a typical evening scene in downtown Philadelphia, where businessmen, street vendors, bums and children form a medley of intersecting dots in a rush to get from place to place amid the din of frantic taxis and angry bus drivers.
The No. 9 Virginia women?s lacrosse team will travel to Harrisonburg, Va.
I hope you watched the championship of the World Baseball Classic last night.
The Virginia track and field teams competed in their season-opening outdoor meet, the U.Va.
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The Virginia softball team struggled in its ACC opener this weekend, losing two out of three games to N.C.
Survive and advance. The Virginia women?s basketball team managed to do just that in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament Saturday, edging Marist 68-61 in Los Angeles.
In 20 years of coaching and playing college baseball, Virginia coach Brian O?Connor had never seen a final out quite like the one that allowed Miami to inflict the first loss against Virginia this season.A final out made on a play at the plate on a passed-ball third strike turned out to be the pivotal moment of a bizarre but thrilling series, as the Cavaliers lost their first series of the season to the Hurricanes.
With the clock winding down Saturday in the Virginia men?s lacrosse team?s game against Johns Hopkins at Homewood, the Blue Jays scrambled to find the goalposts just one more time.Hopkins had been down by one goal for eight minutes but when the last two minutes started to tick away, play became even more frenzied and erratic.
The Virginia men?s lacrosse team has done more than play a good season.
After a topsy-turvy week in Texas during which the Virginia men?s tennis team dealt with a canceled match and a rain delay, the team returned home to resume ACC action this weekend.
The Virginia women?s lacrosse team could not avenge a last-second loss to Princeton last year as the Tigers emerged victorious again against the Cavaliers Saturday afternoon, winning 8-7.The No.
The Virginia wrestling team finished its season with a 34th-place finish at the NCAA Championships, the team?s best finish in the event since 2004.Sophomore Chris Henrich led the way for the Cavaliers and was named an All-American, placing seventh in the 174-pound division.
Virginia?s women?s swimming and diving team finished 12th overall at the NCAA Championships in College Station, Texas, earning 117 points during the weekend tournament.For the Cavaliers (9-1, 5-0 ACC), the performance represents an improvement on last year?s 20th-place finish.Seniors Megan Evo and Kristen Wallace, making their final NCAA Championship appearances, joined relay team members junior Mei Christensen and sophomore Kristen Moores to earn team honorable mention All-America honors.