The Virginia men's lacrosse team knows nothing comes easy in the ACC. The conference regular season title will be on the line Saturday as the ninth-ranked Cavaliers travel to Durham, N.C., to take on No.
What would you do if you had to sit out of your sport for months to recover from surgery? You might get depressed or sulk and complain. But if you were Virginia women's tennis player Amy O'Donnell, you would probably smile and maybe even crack a joke or two. "She always laughs through everything," Virginia assistant coach Justin Drzal said of O'Donnell.
Virginia baseball heads down to Chapel Hill, N.C., this weekend with mixed emotions. On the one hand, they are riding the wave of satisfaction that comes with just having beaten in-state arch-rival Virginia Tech.
The Cavaliers proved there is a light at the end of the tunnel yesterday afternoon at the U.Va. Baseball Field. Virginia (18-18) ended an eight-game losing streak with a 7-4 victory against Virginia Tech (16-17). The victory was especially sweet because it came against Virginia's rivals from Blacksburg. "It's great to get a win," Cavalier shortstop Hunter Wyant said.
Well, my time as a sports columnist is quickly coming to an end, and I would be remiss not to write at least one NBA draft column.
Rutgers sophomore basketball player Todd Billet, who Virginia coach Pete Gillen originally recruited two years ago, announced todayhis intentions to transfer to Virginia.
Practice and discipline are words exchanged between player and coach. Love and friendship are thoughts shared among father and son. But to Bobby and Huntley Montgomery, who embrace both relationships, their bond is something unprecedented.
The Virginia baseball game against Liberty yesterday mirrored the unpredictable Charlottesville weather. Thanks to a late rally by the Flames (16-15) and missed opportunities by Virginia (17-18), the Cavaliers lost, 5-4, in 11 innings. "It was a tough game, and you lose those occasionally," Virginia coach Dennis Womack said.
It's hard not to feel for the men of the Virginia track team. When they heard this weekend that the recommendations of a University task force included the elimination of the men's indoor track team and the creation of a women's golf team, they understandably felt betrayed.
The Rutgers University Sports Information Web site reported yesterday that Virginia has been granted permission to contact Scarlet Knight 6-foot-1 point guard Todd Billet regarding the possibility of his transferring to play men's basketball for the Cavaliers. Billet, a sophomore, led the Scarlet Knights in the 2001 season in scoring average, with 16.6 points.
The Virginia men's tennis team knew it was going to win. But that didn't stop the Cavaliers from avoiding a letdown and putting together one of their most impressive performances of the year. In both teams' last conference match of 2001, Virginia (11-5, 4-4 ACC) completely manhandled Maryland (4-11, 0-8), 7-0, and gave the Terrapins yet another winless ACC season.
In a meeting Sunday night, University athletes and coaches expressed concern about the Virginia 2020 Strategic Planning Task Force for the Department of Athletics recommendation for radical changes in the athletic department.
Although Maryland is in last place in the ACC, the Virginia men's tennis team has plenty of incentive to take the team seriously in today's 2:30 p.m.
To an outsider, today's women's lacrosse game looks like a piece of cake. Perennial title contender Virginia, currently ranked ninth, faces an unranked Virginia Tech squad tonight at Kl
Augusta National Golf Club makes few promises. It grants Eldrick Woods no guarantee that he will fist-pump and sandblast his way to another Tiger slam 12 months from now. It offers frequent second-fiddler Phil Mickelson little consolation that the pear blossoms and periwinkles coating Amen Corner will serve as the backdrop for his first major triumph.
Virginia softball (37-11) beat Stephen F. Austin, 9-6, but fell, 3-1, to Tennessee on Sunday to take second at the Lady Vol Spring Invitational.
Michael Duquette could have been frustrated. He could have been discouraged. He could have given up. But after struggling through a tough 2000 season, the Virginia men's tennis player didn't give in.
The pre-game rankings only told half of the story as the No. 4 Duke women's lacrosse team downed No.
After a surprising score of 68 in the first round, former Virginia golf standout James Driscoll shot a 78 in the second and failed to make the cut at the 2001 Masters in Augusta, Ga. Driscoll, a 2000 Virginia graduate, shot a first-round score of four-under par, the lowest for an amateur since 1983, but then missed the cut by just one stroke.
Missed shots, errant passes, poor communication - it was just that kind of a day for the No. 4 Virginia men's lacrosse team as they lost to No.
