Virginia tops Duke, earns first ACC win
By Joey Mancini | April 19, 2004Virginia held on to a slim shot at an NCAA tournament berth Saturday, defeating No. 13 Duke, 13-4, at Klockner Stadium.
Virginia held on to a slim shot at an NCAA tournament berth Saturday, defeating No. 13 Duke, 13-4, at Klockner Stadium.
After two days of rallying under the scorching North Carolina sun, freshman Marko Miklo led the Cavaliers to their first-ever Atlantic Coast Conference tournament championship with a third-set victory over his Clemson opponent. Miklo's win came after a back and forth match in which he won the first set 6-1 but was crushed 1-6 in the second after struggling with an injury. "I was just focusing on my knee which felt a little bit bad," Miklo said.
Two Virginia Cavaliers took home gold medals from the 2004 ACC Track and Field Championships, held in Chapel Hill, N.C.
It was a classic pitcher's duel between Virginia's Joe Koshasnky and Maryland's Kevin Hart in game three of the squads' weekend series.
It was impossible -- the game was over, finished, done with. With Virginia down by three runs to No.
The Virginia women's rowing team took home its fifth consecutive ACC title, sweeping the field at the ACC regatta.
Tyler Leachman scored the game-winning goal on an eight-meter shot with 9.3 seconds left to complete the No.
Wali Lundy was a workhorse Saturday, carrying 23 times for 75 yards and throwing a nine-yard touchdown pass to lead the Wahoos to a 10-7 victory over the Cavaliers in Virginia's annual intrasquad spring football game. "I thought both teams performed well," tight end Heath Miller said.
The Cavalier baseball team will put their nine-game winning streak on the line when they travel to Bowie, Md., to square off against the Terps this weekend.
When the No. 7 Virginia women's lacrosse team (11-3) hosts Loyola College (12-1) tomorrow night at 7, they'll be facing more than just the No.
After rain postponed a scheduled Wednesday afternoon matchup, Virginia split a doubleheader with Radford yesterday. The Cavalier defense struggled mentally in the first game, allowing several Highlander runs on errors. In the bottom of the fifth, junior Jenn Wynn nailed a three-run homer to left field, allowing the Cavaliers to gain the lead, 7-5.
The women's rowing team has won the past four ACC rowing championships and will attempt to keep that streak alive, when the fifth tournament is held Saturday on Lake Hartwell in Clemson, S.C. Virginia's first varsity eight team is ranked sixth in the nation and should get its toughest competition from Duke, whose first varsity eight is ranked 20th.
Typically, defending national champions do not find themselves at the bottom of their conference standings.
Virginia's track and field teams will take part in the ACC outdoor championships in Chapel Hill today and tomorrow.
The last 12 months in the world of golf have been all about firsts. Annika Sorenstam tees it up for the first time in a PGA Tour event in May 2003.
According to ESPN.com, the Pac-10 has placed University of Washington on a year-long probation after charging Washington with gambling violations and improper recruitment.
Three Virginia scholar-athletes were honored Tuesday as recipients of the Atlantic Coast Conference's 2004 Weaver-James-Corrigan Postgraduate Scholarship.
Despite having led his team to its highest ranking and biggest win in school history, men's tennis coach Brian Boland is not yet satisfied.
This weekend the No. 54 Virginia women's tennis team (11-11, 2-6 ACC) will travel to Raleigh, N.C.
The No. 7 Virginia women's lacrosse team started off relatively slowly on offense, but used a run of seven unanswered goals during the second part of the first half and beginning of the second half yesterday to defeat No.