For the first four years of Virginia coach Brian O?Connor?s tenure with the Cavaliers, a home run was an uncommon occurrence.Last night, though, this year?s power-heavy Virginia offense lifted the Cavaliers from a two-run deficit against Georgetown, which has the worst winning percentage on Virginia?s schedule.
The Virginia women?s tennis team has three weeks to pinpoint the weakest aspects of its game and transform those aspects into winning ones before the NCAA Tournament.The Cavaliers have struggled as of late, and their failure to move past the ACC Tournament quarterfinals only further hampered the team.
The Virginia track team heads to the illustrious Penn Relays in Philadelphia this weekend following its impressive performance at the ACC Tournament this past weekend.The Cavaliers already have qualified 22 athletes for NCAA Regionals but will look to increase this number.
RICHMOND, Va. ? Baseball coach Brian O?Connor had envisioned many roles for junior Matt Packer this season.
I want to take this final week in my first year as a columnist to honor a recent retiree from sports media.
Though I assumed the duties of a columnist this semester, I think I managed to evade the usual expectations of the office: to convince you of how I view the world of sports.
Football has the coin flip. Basketball has the jump ball. Men?s lacrosse, however, has the faceoff to initiate the start of the game and decide who first holds possession.
BaseballMiami was swept for the first time in two seasons this past weekend, as the Hurricanes dropped all three games against North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C.
As if tearing through the ACC regular season to go undefeated for the second consecutive year, extending its ACC winning streak to 45 games and notching its third ACC Championship in as many years was not enough, the Virginia men?s tennis team added a little icing on the cake: Showing no mercy, the No.
History was made Saturday at Miami?s Cobb Stadium, where the Virginia men?s track and field team won the school?s first-ever ACC Outdoor Championship.
Prior to Virginia?s series against Boston College, Virginia coach Brian O?Connor said that, unlike in past years, his team had yet to hit its peak.
This coming weekend is the NFL Draft, which means many things for sports fans at the University.
The Virginia men?s golf team shot a final round 2-over 290 Sunday to finish ninth at the 54-hole ACC Championships at the Old North State Club in New London, N.C.The team?s 5-over 869 total was one shot behind Virginia Tech and North Carolina, and three shots back of sixth-place Maryland.
The Virginia softball team played its final home series of the season this past weekend against Georgia Tech.
The No. 3 Virginia women?s golf team suffered a disappointing fourth-place finish at the ACC Championships at the Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, N.C.
The Virginia men?s lacrosse team used a fourth quarter comprised of eight unanswered points to vault itself to a 13-6 victory against Dartmouth Saturday.?We haven?t played offense well for a month,? senior attackman Garret Billings said, ?even in [this] whole game, except for the fourth quarter.?It was senior day at Kl
Two weeks ago, sophomore pitcher Robert Morey?s role in ACC play was as a seldom-used middle reliever.The past two weekends, however, Morey has been the Sunday starter, and yesterday against Boston College he threw the best game No.
Spring football games tend to be nothing more than glorified scrimmages that generate little buzz ? unless there is one of three factors in play: a major competition for the starting quarterback slot, a new coach or a new offensive or defensive system.All three of these currently are affecting the Virginia football team, and so Saturday?s game at Scott Stadium proved to be an interesting matchup for the nearly 8,000 fans in attendance.Just as was the case last year, the Cavaliers have a three-way competition for the starting quarterback position.
The No. 10 Virginia women?s lacrosse team suffered its sixth loss of the spring Sunday ? its most during a season since 1995 ? falling to No.
When the Virginia women?s lacrosse team saw Northwestern on its schedule at the beginning of the season, the players circled the game and saw it as an opportunity to defeat the four-time defending national champs in a game that could be a stepping stone on the way to a fourth conference title.
