Semester in review: Virginia sports
By Matthew Wurzburger , Matthew Morris , Ryan Taylor and Robert Elder | May 13, 2015Virginia athletics enjoyed a memorable semester.
Virginia athletics enjoyed a memorable semester.
Several star Virginia athletes have played their last games in the orange and blue. Here’s a look at eight of the players fans will miss most.
The Virginia men’s lacrosse team usually gets off to slow starts. Such poor performances out of the gate have already cost the Cavaliers two wins this season.
Following a break from finals season, No. 24 Virginia baseball took two-out-of-three against Duke in their penultimate conference series.
Sunday, the Virginia men’s lacrosse team will begin postseason play against Johns Hopkins for the second consecutive year.
Fresh off their disappointing series loss to NC State, 23rd-ranked Virginia baseball travels to Harbor Park — the home of the triple-A Norfolk Tides — for a Tuesday contest with Old Dominion.
The margin of error for was very slim this week for the Virginia softball team. The Cavaliers (16-40, 4-20 ACC) needed to sweep Syracuse and hope that Florida State swept Georgia Tech — who sat just two games above Virginia in the conference standings — to allow the Cavaliers to gain eligibility for the ACC tournament.
Virginia track and field competed at the Penn Relays April 23-25. Cavalier athletes measured up to an elite pool in a number of events, though they were unable to come away with any wins.
The No. 28 Virginia men’s golf team shot 11-under 853 to place fourth at this weekend’s ACC Championships.
No. 19 Virginia baseball dropped two out of three games in a crucial road series at NC State.
The Virginia men’s tennis team won its ninth consecutive ACC Championship Sunday at the Sheffield Indoor Tennis Center in Durham, North Carolina.
The No. 4 seed Virginia women’s tennis team won its second consecutive ACC Championship Sunday.
The No. 28 Virginia men’s golf team shot 11-under 853 to place fourth at this weekend’s ACC Championships. Georgia Tech won the competition, with No. 37 Clemson, No. 1 Florida State and North Carolina rounding out the top five.
After a solid first two months of the season back in 2011, the Virginia men’s lacrosse team used a dominating victory against Pennsylvania to conclude the regular season and kick-start a national championship run.
For the second time this season, the No. 5 Virginia women’s lacrosse team suffered a loss at the hands of No. 11 Notre Dame — this time in a more defensive battle between the two teams for a final score of 7-6 in the quarterfinal round of the ACC tournament held Thursday afternoon at Klöckner Stadium.
The Orange-Blue scrimmage has come and gone, and Virginia football coach Mike London has set himself up for a fifth consecutive year of quarterback controversy.
The Skinny on weekend action for Virginia’s baseball, track and field, women’s tennis, softball, men’s golf and men’s tennis teams
After a season strewed with many ups and downs so far, everything came together for the Virginia baseball team, as the Cavaliers downed Liberty 5-2 in a true team effort Wednesday night.
Virginia softball split their Wednesday double-header with Liberty in Lynchburg, Virginia. The Cavaliers fell in the first game, 3-2, before taking down the Flames, 4-2.
When the ACC released its annual 18-member All-Conference team Wednesday, Virginia fans found just one Cavalier representative – sophomore goalie Matt Barrett.