It was just over a month ago on March 22 that the No. 14 Virginia women’s lacrosse team took a long, somber bus ride from Durham, N.C. back to Charlottesville. This was not the way the Cavaliers had expected their season to go. The preseason excitement was gone, as Virginia had fallen to 4-6 and 0-3 in the ACC after a 16-11 loss against No. 7 Duke.
Tuesday night in Richmond, the Virginia baseball team won a rollercoaster ballgame against Virginia Commonwealth, 5-4, on junior center fielder Brandon Downes’ 10th-inning solo home run.
Virginia softball dropped both games of its Tuesday doubleheader with James Madison. The Cavaliers (6-40, 1-22 ACC) fought hard to stay close with a top-25 RPI Dukes (35-13, 9-3 CAA) team.
Tuesday morning, the ACC revealed the Virginia men’s basketball team’s conference opponents for each of the next two seasons. The Cavaliers, fresh off their first Sweet 16 appearance since 1995, will play an 18-game conference slate with an even split of home and away contests in both 2014-15 and 2015-16.
Student-athletes can sometimes seem like entirely different beings: incredibly fit and often-intimidating creatures roaming Grounds in official ACC sweatpants, identifiable by the names and numbers attached to their backpacks. Here’s something crazy, though: they’re humans just like the rest of us – except they’re humans who also happen to perform nearly superhuman feats. Our peers in the Athletics Department balance the same academic pressures as everyone else – then they go out and win for the glory of dear Virginia.
Following the Virginia baseball team’s 10-0 win against George Washington on April 2, the team’s offense, which had struggled, looked poised to break out.
The No. 8 Virginia men’s golf team won its second consecutive tournament Saturday, shooting a 4-over 292 to best second-place Clemson by three strokes at the rain-shortened Wolfpack Spring Open at the Lonnie Poole Golf Course in Raleigh, N.C. The event was condensed from 54 holes to 18 holes after rain precluded Friday play.
With one week remaining in the regular season Virginia softball comes crawling to the finish line looking for a more positive end to a disappointing season. The Cavaliers wrap up their home schedule with a Tuesday doubleheader against James Madison and a Wednesday series against Liberty. Virginia’s burden does not get any lighter on Tuesday.
The No. 4 Virginia women’s rowing team competed in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge this weekend on Belleville Lake, winning nine of twelve races against No.
Despite splitting the last two regular season matches, the No. 9 Virginia women’s tennis team earned a share of their first ACC women’s tennis regular-season title.
Despite North Carolina handing Virginia just its third loss in 25 home games this season, the Cavaliers took two of three games against the Tar Heels this weekend.
The No. 4 Virginia men’s tennis team traveled to Blacksburg over the weekend, clinching its eighth consecutive undefeated conference record with a victory against No. 36 Virginia Tech.
Virginia track and field wrapped up three days of competition at the ACC Outdoor Track and Field Championships Saturday, with the Cavalier women finishing seventh with 60 points while the men placed eighth after collecting 53 points.
Despite entering the tournament ranked behind three other teams, the No. 23 Virginia women’s golf team claimed second place at the ACC Championships in Greensboro, NC this past weekend.
Virginia softball concluded the home portion of its ACC schedule this weekend against No. 22 Notre Dame. The Cavaliers’ (6-38, 1-22 ACC) bats betrayed them in the first two games before coming alive in a thrilling Senior Day game.
The ninth-ranked Virginia men’s lacrosse team posted a dominating second-half performance against Bellarmine to earn a 12-8 victory Saturday afternoon. With the win the Cavaliers halted a three-game losing streak and finished the regular season at 9-5.
The skinny on weekend matchups for men’s lacrosse, women’s tennis, softball, men’s golf, and women’s rowing.
The No. 1 Virginia men’s baseball team continues its homestand this weekend as they face ACC rival North Carolina in a three game series. The Cavaliers (31-6, 14-4 ACC) won last weekend’s series against Clemson two games to one and beat William & Mary 11-2 on Wednesday to bring their home record to 21-5 on the season.
Top-ranked Virginia (31-6, 14-4 ACC) bounced William and Mary (22-14, 6-2 CAA), 11-2, behind Lewicki’s five scoreless innings and a veritable offensive deluge. The Cavaliers captured their 21st win at home as well as 100th in-state win of O’Connor’s tenure while burning through six Tribe pitchers on 14 hits and seven walks.
Despite a loss Sunday against Maryland, the Virginia women’s lacrosse team still felt it was playing its best of lacrosse of the season. On Wednesday night, the No. 15 Cavaliers (9-7, 3-4 ACC) proved that to be the case as they closed their regular season with a dominant win against in-state rival Virginia Tech (7-8, 0-6 ACC), 17-12.
