Forte too strong for Virginia's comeback attempt
By Ginny Min | January 25, 2001CHAPEL HILL, N.C.-In the second half of last night's 88-81 loss to No. 5 North Carolina, the No.
CHAPEL HILL, N.C.-In the second half of last night's 88-81 loss to No. 5 North Carolina, the No.
1. Athletes. 2. Sportswriters. 3. "We've really just got to out there and play our game, you know?
This could be the lowest of the low. For the first time, the Virginia women's basketball team lost to Florida State. The Cavaliers entered the game 20-0 against the Seminoles in a series that dates back to 1990, but they allowed Levys Torres to put back her own miss in the final seconds and fell, 60-58, at the Tallahassee Leon County Civic Center last night.
CHAPEL HILL, N.C.-A team with six players scoring in double digits, including two with double-doubles, should be happy with its performance.
Freshman swimmer Luke Anderson has another award to add to his trophy collection after being named the ACC Men's Swimmer of the Week for his Saturday performance against North Carolina. In Virginia's 139.5-103.5 victory, Anderson won two individual events and one relay.
This, evidently, is what it has come to. Kerry Collins and Trent Dilfer are your Super Bowl quarterbacks. Either Collins, a man paraded before the American sporting public not too long ago as a redneck, racist drunk, or Dilfer, who failed miserably as the last piece of the puzzle in Tampa Bay, will join the likes of Namath, Bradshaw and Montana as a championship-winning quarterback.
Ed Moses wasn't the only Cavalier in the pool at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney last fall. Competing in her second Olympics for her native Macedonia, sophomore distance swimmer Mirjana Bosevska finished in the top 20 in each of her three events.
The No. 13 Virginia men's basketball team, following an 85-72 win at home in a strong team effort against Missouri, next enters an environment which has given them much difficulty recently: a road game in the ACC. The Cavaliers face No.
An intense, rejuvenated Virginia women's basketball squad came out to face fourth-ranked Duke, held their lead for the first 13 minutes and left it all out on the court last night. Unfortunately for the Cavaliers, that just wasn't enough. Virginia's starting five combined for all but six of the team's total points, drained nine three-pointers and made Duke, the defending ACC champion, look a little less invincible.
Three members of the Virginia men's lacrosse squad were named to the CollegeLacrosseUSA.com Pre-Season All-American Team.
Walk into any broadcast journalism class at any communications school nation- wide, and some middle-aged media mogul cut directly from the image of Edward R.
Michael and Scottie. Bird and McHale. Magic and Kareem. Georgia and Sheana? Senior guard Georgia Schweitzer and sophomore point guard Sheana Mosch spearheaded the Blue Devils' win over the Cavaliers last night, outdueling Virginia's own pair, Schuye LaRue and Svetlana Volnaya.
The No. 13 Virginia men took the basketball court Saturday against No. 20 Missouri with the hopes of keeping their undefeated non-conference record unblemished.
Here's an age-old nugget of sports wisdom: "Offense sells tickets, but defense wins games." In their 85-72 victory over No.
In a heated ACC competition Saturday, Virginia's swimming and diving teams split with North Carolina.
The Virginia women's basketball team (12-5, 4-1) will host a tough conference matchup with No. 5 Duke tonight at University Hall at 7:30.
When they learned the University hired Al Groh to replace George Welsh as coach of the Virginia football team, the Cavalier players' reactions ranged from "somewhat surprised" to "shocked." After hearing of Groh's hiring - either while watching the Dolphins-Colts NFL playoff game or ESPN - several players said they did not realize Groh was strongly being considered for the position. "I had been following everything," junior placekicker David Greene said.
The ACC's finest swimming rivalry takes center stage tomorrow when the Virginia swimming and diving teams square off against North Carolina at 1 p.m.
In a sloppily played game, the Virginia Cavaliers defeated the Richmond Spiders 83-76 last night in University Hall. Led by Schuye LaRue's 21 points and 18 rebounds, the Cavaliers were able to overcome 31 turnovers and poor defensive play and pull out the victory. Following another slow start, No.
Days after Missouri hired him to be its men's basketball coach, Quin Snyder strolled into Glenda Rush's house in Kansas City, Mo., to recruit her son Kareem.