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Team to get first test of year in Minneapolis

After getting their feet wet at the Lou Onesty Invitational in Charlottesville two weeks ago, the men's and women's cross country teams will have their first real test this weekend when they travel to Minneapolis for the Roy Girak Invitational. "It's going to be really competitive on both the men's and women's sides," Virginia coach Jason Dunn said.


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Virginia to take No. 7 ranking north

By Zach Rowen Cavalier Daily Associate Editor After a tough win Wednesday over William & Mary, Virginia will travel north to take on two Boston opponents: ACC foe Boston College tonight and Boston University Sunday.


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Virginia to take on UNC

This weekend the Virginia men's soccer team will face a challenge it hasn't faced in two weeks -- leaving the 2,000 fans of Klöckner Stadium to travel to North Carolina for this season's second away game.


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Pick like a champion today

Last week's games were brutal. Just awful to pick and tough to watch. For a weekend that had such promise, the most memorable event ended up being the replay firestorm in Eugene, Ore. All that is a long way of saying that I fared poorly, although a 1-2-2 week won't force anyone to put up their tuition check this week to get back even.


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Cavs stuck in a developmental holding pattern

At the beginning of his spring football press conference, Al Groh said that the Virginia football team had a "significant rebuilding job" in front of it. Taking that statement as reliable, my first column in August argued that if the Cavaliers were in fact "rebuilding" in 2006, then Jameel Sewell should be the starting quarterback. His upside is tremendous.


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Sept 18 -- The Virginia women's basketball team has named the 2006-2007 season's captains: senior guard Tara McKnight, senior center Siedah Williams and junior point guard Sharneé Zoll. Williams and Zoll are the Cavaliers' starting center and point guard, and were both captains during the 2005-2006 season.


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Third string QB to get second chance Thursday

After Saturday's game that featured all three Cavalier quarterbacks, Jameel Sewell is slated to start for Thursday's game against Georgia Tech entering practice this week. "I think we will probably start the week in the order in which we finished the game and see how it progresses from there," Virginia coach Al Groh said. That would put the order on the depth chart as Sewell, Christian Olsen, Kevin McCabe. Sewell, a redshirt freshman, played the entire second half against Western Michigan in the first appearance of his career.


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If this isn't rock bottom, I don't know what is

I hoped it would never come to this. Watching Western Michigan cel-ebrate on our V-sabre at midfield after pulling off the 17-10 upset Saturday left me with one of the worst tastes in my mouth following a Virginia football game. I can deal with the home losses to Florida State and Miami.


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Cavaliers hammer out old frustrations on Catamounts

Unfortunately for Vermont, the Virginia women's soccer team chose Friday night to take out its frustrations over last week's upset loss to Seton Hall by pummeling the Catamounts, 6-0. "We had a good week of training overall," Virginia coach Steve Swanson said.


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Groh pulls McCabe too early

Would somebody please wake me up? This had to have been only a nightmare. In the real world, there is no way that Virginia could lose at home to a middle-of-the-pack MAC team like Western Michigan. But this situation, however, is what we've come to at this school in the sixth year of the Al Groh era.


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Third string not the charm for Cavs

When Jameel Sewell's last-ditch fourth-down scramble was stopped just yards short of a first down in Saturday's 17-10 loss, the Cavaliers' immediate and long-term future both moved squarely under the microscope. On paper, Virginia (1-2, 0-0 ACC) dominated the Broncos in terms of total yards (258 to 179), number of first downs (13 to 9), and third-down conversions (5-14 to 3-14). None of these statistical advantages was significant in changing the result of the game, though. "Western Michigan knew exactly what kind of game they had to play, which was play a good, sound, solid game, see if Virginia would do enough to help them win," coach Al Groh said.

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