A look at this weekend's biggest sporting events.
Excitement filled Scott Stadium with about one minute to play last weekend, as students lined up to rush the field and celebrate a win against Louisville to match last season’s two-game win total.
Even for the most ardent Virginia soccer fans, it is quite easy to mistake senior defender Kyler Sullivan and redshirt freshman defender Sheldon Sullivan for one another.
After eight games, the second-ranked Virginia women’s soccer team has performed above and beyond expectations as it has dominated early season play. The Cavaliers had outscored opponents 23-3 entering Wednesday’s matchup, and they didn’t look at all slowed by their rough schedule — three games in six days — in their final out-of-conference game.
It’s hard to imagine a more #GoACC week than the one which just passed: the two top teams didn’t play, two of the other top teams lost to supposedly inferior opponents and multiple quarterbacks faced discipline for a creative range of offenses, from shouting obscenities to driving under the influence.
After three losses last weekend, the Virginia volleyball team will look to bounce back this weekend in the VCU Invitational against Ball State, East Tennessee State University and Virginia Commonwealth University.
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After an impressive performance in this weekend’s Virginia Nike Soccer Classic, the second-ranked Virginia Cavaliers women’s soccer team is now 7-0 to start off the year for just the fourth time in team history.
In the first tournament of the season, the Virginia women’s golf team finished in a tie for fourth place Tuesday at the Cougar Classic.
As the celebration unfolded at Scott Stadium Saturday following the Virginia football team’s 23-21 victory against then-No.
On Friday against Virginia Tech, it took the Virginia men’s soccer team 74 minutes to score the game’s only goal.
The Virginia field hockey team won its ACC opener on Friday night, defeating Louisville 3-2 in double overtime. Sophomore striker Caleigh Foust scored the game-winning goal off a pass from freshman midfielder Tara Vittese 1:43 into the sudden-death second overtime, giving the No.
The second-ranked Virginia women’s soccer team hosted Tennesee, Hosftra, Duke and Richmond in the 27th Virginia Nike Soccer Classic this weekend, looking to build on its strong early-season play and extend its program-record 21-game home winning streak.
In the first match of ACC play Friday, the No. 15 Virginia men’s soccer team battled to a 1-0 win against a physical Virginia Tech squad, avenging a disappointing 2013 double overtime draw against the Hokies.
The Virginia volleyball team lost all three of its matches against Loyola, Youngstown State and host Northwestern at the Wildcat Challenge in Evanston, Ill. this past weekend after starting the season 6-0 for the first time since 2003.
Saturday in Karuizawa, Japan — a 14-hour plane jaunt from Charlottesville — Virginia senior Denny McCarthy led Team USA in scoring at the World Amateur Team Championships as the Americans captured the Eisenhower Trophy for a record 15th time.
This Saturday at Scott Stadium, the Virginia football team scored perhaps its most memorable and significant win of the past three seasons, pulling off a 23-21 upset against then-No. 21 Louisville before an announced crowd of 34,816 fans. The Cavaliers (2-1, 1-0 ACC), who received six votes in Sunday’s AP Top-25 Poll, trailed with less than four minutes left in the fourth quarter, but refused to lay down with the game on the line.
The Skinny on weekend games for Virginia’s field hockey, volleyball and women’s golf teams. More extensive previews for the football and men’s soccer teams are available online and in Thursday’s issue of the Cavalier Daily. A full preview for the women’s soccer team is also available online.
Virginia looks to continue its strong play this weekend when it takes on the Tennessee Lady Volunteers (3-2) on Friday night at Klöckner Stadium–followed by a Sunday matinee against Hofstra (3-2)–in the Virginia Nike Soccer Classic.
Coming off a 2-1 neutral site victory against University of Alabama-Birmingham, the No. 15 Virginia men’s soccer team will host in-state rival Virginia Tech in its ACC opener Friday night.
