Selenski to Ragukas was the name of the game in Durham, N.C. yesterday as the Virginia field hockey team downed Duke 5-2 to advance to the semifinals of the ACC Tournament.
Some voters in the 2008 presidential election cast their ballots with the economy heavy on their minds.
In collegiate field hockey, conference opponents might face each other twice in regular and postseason play, but those teams rarely match up in back-to-back games, let alone twice in one week in the same city.
The Virginia men?s and women?s tennis teams are preparing to host the ITA National Intercollegiate Indoor Championships, which will begin today.
The Virginia men?s and women?s swimming and diving teams will travel outside the commonwealth this weekend to face SEC competitors.
The third-seeded Virginia women?s soccer team squeezed past sixth-seeded Wake Forest last night in a 3-2 double-overtime thriller in the first round of the ACC Tournament in Cary, N.C., after sophomore forward Sinead Farrelly clanged a shot off the post and in the net for the game-winning goal in the 104th minute.The Cavaliers dominated the game statistically, out-shooting the Demon Deacons 23-7 and out-cornering them 12-5.
The Virginia women?s soccer team hopes to take down Wake Forest tonight in its second matchup against the Demon Deacons this week.
The Virginia football team?s game against Miami marked the seventh in the development of the play between sophomore quarterback Marc Verica and his wide receivers.There have been many high points, including the 31-0 demolishing of Maryland Oct.
Some Tuesdays are just terrible. You know it when you feel it. Food doesn?t taste quite as good as it usually does.
?For when the One Great Scorer comes,To write against your name,He marks ? not that you won or lost ?But how you played the game.?? Grantland RiceNever in the history of sports has a writer so succinctly and poetically summed up the essence of sports on a higher plane than that of the playing field.
In the gloom of winter nights, Virginia outdoor athletic teams can find themselves fighting not only practice squads and fatigue, but the most unpredictable of forces ? Mother Nature.
?We had the ball most of the game,? Virginia men?s soccer coach George Gelnovatch said.
Now petitioning the NCAA for a new intercollegiate sport: SlamBall.I need to give a shout-out to my buddies Nolan and Tahlor for telling me about this sport, which is played on a modified basketball court that features Plexiglas boards, like in hockey, and four trampolines arranged to cover the area inside the three-point line.
Being a sports fan is never easy. As a Virginia Cavaliers football fan and Dallas Cowboys fan, the performance of these two teams was scarier than anything else I witnessed this Halloween weekend.Virginia had a chance to strengthen its hold on the Coastal Division and definitely let a win slip through its grasp Saturday.
The Virginia men?s cross country team raced to its second consecutive ACC Championship Saturday, and sixth-year senior Ryan Foster claimed his first career individual conference title.Racing at the Ranson-Hamrick Cross Country Course at North Carolina in Chapel Hill, the Cavaliers turned in the low card of the day, tallying just 40 points to comfortably outpace runner-up No.
?You probably can count on two fingers the amount of fumbles that Cedric [Peerman] has had.?Virginia coach Al Groh?s words for Peerman described the first occasion Peerman had fumbled the ball away to the opposition, or at all, in his Virginia career.
You can call what happened Saturday a choke job, self-destruction, missed opportunities galore or just unfortunate luck.
It?s OK, Reverend.By Reverend, of course, I mean Cedric Peerman, tailback and ordained minister.
What the Virginia men?s soccer team hoped would be a season-defining win turned out to be a Halloween nightmare.Virginia was dealt a tough 2-1 loss Friday night by No.
The Virginia women?s soccer team played from behind when it faced Wake Forest at Kl
