Cavaliers hope for a strong finish in Athens
By Eric Strow | March 23, 2007The Virginia women's golf team is nearing the end of its season and still has something left to prove.
The Virginia women's golf team is nearing the end of its season and still has something left to prove.
The Virginia men's lacrosse team is seeking to improve upon its six-game winning streak this weekend as it travels to Baltimore, Md.
Home sweet home. It is time for the Virginia softball team to finally play at Davenport Field after the 29 straight games on the road that began the season. The Cavaliers (10-19, 0-3 ACC) begin their first home series this weekend against Maryland (14-10, 0-0 ACC) with some momentum after sweeping Radford 2-1 and 9-1 Wednesday. Senior pitcher Coty Tolar picked up both wins to move to 4-5 on the year as she threw 9.2 innings, allowing one run on six hits with five strikeouts and no walks. Freshman first baseman Kelly Haller and senior designated player Brooke Sorber led the Cavaliers offensively.
The Virginia baseball team is finally gearing up for a homestand, hosting its first ACC series at Davenport Field against Miami this weekend. "Home is huge," sophomore starting pitcher Andrew Carraway said.
The No. 2 Virginia men's tennis team will look to break a two-game losing streak this weekend when they take on No.
While watching junior Ben Rubeor score a career-high seven goals Saturday against Towson, someone in the press box remarked how different the Virginia men's lacrosse team would be without its star attackman.
After a dramatic victory over Charlotte, the Virginia women's basketball team will look to extend its season tonight against South Florida in the third round of the WNIT tournament at John Paul Jones Arena. To win however, the Cavaliers will need to demonstrate a better defensive performance than they did last Monday.
With 22 seconds left in the first half, the No. 3-ranked Virginia women's lacrosse team moved the ball around all sides of the opposing goal and still could not capitalize, even though the team was up 6-2 against No.
Collegeinsider.com named Virginia junior guard Sean Singletary to its 16-member All-America Team recently.
With the men's basketball successful season now complete and the focus shifting almost exclusively to spring sports, there is no clear answer as to which sport is king of the season.
It has been a long road trip for the Virginia softball team and it finally ends today. The Cavaliers head down to Radford University today for a doubleheader to finish up the 29 consecutive road games that began their season. The Cavaliers have experienced ups and downs throughout the long stretch of road games, games that appear to have slowly worn Virginia down. Virginia (8-19, 0-3) was 3-2 in its first part of the road trip, a tournament in Tampa, Fla.
Making the blockbuster trade on the deadline. Shelling out the big bucks to pick up that once-in-a-lifetime free agent power hitter.
A friend of mine somewhat sarcastically said the other day that he liked how I "had essentially become the college basketball columnist" for The Cavalier Daily.
Despite suffering a loss to the No. 2-ranked North Carolina Tar Heels last weekend, Virginia looks to rebound with a victory over No.
Despite a gutsy performance against North Carolina in last weekend's series, the Virginia softball team came up short losing all three games. Friday's game was moved to Saturday because of inclement weather, and Saturday's doubleheader was moved to Sunday.
With two more months remaining in the regular season, the Cavalier baseball team hopes 2007 won't be a rollercoaster, because they are on a high. After taking two out of three from the Tar Heels in Chapel Hill last weekend, Virginia (19-4, 3-3 ACC) moved up to No.
The Virginia men's golf team is already two tournaments deep into the spring season and will play two more before the ACC Championships in late April.
When Kaitlin Duff found out from another teammate that she was named National Player of the Week by womenslacrosse.com, it was hard for her to act in any other way but surprised. "I didn't even know they had those kinds of things, so I was really surprised," Duff said.
Sophomore forward Lyndra Littles may have been suffering from a stomach virus, but it was the Charlotte 49ers who were left feeling sick last night as Littles connected on a jumper right under the basket with four seconds left to give the Virginia women's basketball team a dramatic 74-72 victory in the second round of the WNIT tournament. With the game's fate hanging in the balance, it was not Virginia coach Debbie Ryan but junior guard Sharneé Zoll who picked the play that would give Virginia it's 18th victory of the season. "I'm not going to brag," Zoll said.
I don't know where you were Thursday night, but at my rambunctious house of 16 testosterone-filled men, you would have thought the Cavaliers were playing their opening round game Thursday evening instead of Friday midday. The loud claps and screaming at the television -- I have yet to accept that the players can't hear us -- were not for the Virginia Cavaliers but for the Virginia Commonwealth Rams. My intuition tells me it was not so much an expression of love for our fellow Commonwealth brethren, but rather our hope that the No.