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Men's Lax: Loss to Blue Devils lights fire under Cavs

By Megan McDonald | April 20, 2007

It probably would have been in Dartmouth's best interest for the Virginia men's lacrosse team to have beaten Duke last weekend. Indeed, Virginia's heartbreaking 7-6 overtime loss to the Blue Devils (10-2, 3-0 ACC) has lit a fire under the Cavaliers, who are ready and eager to play their best lacrosse this weekend. "We feel like in the last couple of weeks our play has flattened out a little bit," Virginia coach Dom Starsia said.

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Women's Lax: Cavs take on playoff foe

By Sam Dreiman | April 20, 2007

It is do-or-die for the No. 6 Virginia women's lacrosse team. As the Cavaliers make the long trip to Chestnut Hill, Mass.

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Virginia hopes to improve

By Emily Hebeler | April 19, 2007

After losing two tough ACC matches last weekend, the Virginia women's tennis team hopes to bounce back at the ACC Tournament this week.

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Virginia lanced by Longwood in second game

By Campbell Grant | April 19, 2007

On a chilly April afternoon, the Virginia softball team split a doubleheader against Longwood, winning the first game 5-2 before falling to the Lancers (19-15) in the second game 6-2. Virginia (15-31, 1-14 ACC) jumped out to a quick lead in the first game, scoring two runs in the first inning.

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For fans away from home, still no Nats

By Kevin Zdancewicz | April 19, 2007

As I was thinking about how to piece together the ideas of today's column, I was really struck with a sense of how ultimately petty and inconsequential the topic I was writing about was in the larger scheme of things.

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Cavs look forward to challenge

By Brennan Lowery | April 19, 2007

The Virginia men's golf team hopes to carry momentum into the ACC Championship to be held this weekend in New London, N.C.

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Cavs ready to defend ACCperfect record in postseason

By Campbell Grant | April 19, 2007

The Virginia men's tennis team will look to use its regular-season success as momentum for this weekend's ACC Tournament.

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Sports in brief

By Cavalier Daily Staff | April 18, 2007

Camels shock Tarheels in 11 innings Campbell University (8-31) took out the No. 2 ranked baseball team in the country,North Carolina (32-7, 13-5 ACC) in Chapel Hill in 11 innings last night.

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Baseball: Cavalier win full of stellar performances

By Paul Montana | April 18, 2007

Following a somber five minutes of silence dedicated to the victims of the shootings at Virginia Tech prior to the start of the game, the Virginia baseball team set emotions aside to put away in-state foe Richmond 12-5. "Our team, doing what we did with the silence, we're conscious of what's in people's hearts right now," Virginia coach Brian O'Connor said.

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Women's Lacrosse: Breslin provides complete package for Virginia

By Sam Dreiman | April 18, 2007

When senior Kate Breslin first decided to attend Virginia and join the women's lacrosse team, there was no question that she would be a great addition to the Cavaliers and would help raise the expectations of the team.

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Softball: Cavs seek to lace up midweek wins over Lancers

By Aaron Perryman | April 18, 2007

For the Virginia softball team, the 2007 season has been one of disappointments. Despite all of the setbacks, the Cavaliers will take on non-ACC opponent Longwood today in a doubleheader and aim to pick up a few wins before the start of the ACC tournament. This pair of games comes on the heels of another subpar ACC series for the Cavaliers (14-30, 1-14 ACC), who were most recently swept by N.C.

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Let's go... Hokies

By Joey Mancini | April 18, 2007

I was asked yesterday morning to write about the tragic events that took place in Blacksburg Monday.

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Cavs aim to rebound against George Mason

By Sam Dreiman | April 17, 2007

Not only did this past weekend bring about terrible weather, it also brought disappointing news to the No.

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Cavs look to down Spiders after walk-off win Saturday

By Paul Montana | April 17, 2007

The No. 6 Virginia baseball team is coming off an emotional roller-coaster ride in their 1-1 series split with Georgia Tech last weekend.

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150 chances to lose

By Jeremy Root | April 17, 2007

Maybe I should have seen it coming. They have a $36 million dollar payroll -- almost half of their 2006 budget and the third lowest in Major League Baseball.

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Timms vital to Virginia's success

By Megan McDonald | April 17, 2007

At 6 feet 5 inches and 222 pounds, it is difficult not to notice long-stick midfielder Mike Timms.

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Sports message boards find new use after tragedy

By Eric Kolenich | April 17, 2007

In the wake of yesterday's tragedy at Virginia Tech, online sports message boards served a more important purpose, providing an outlet for people to report information about the shootings that killed 33 people. With cell phone coverage limited yesterday in the Blacksburg area, many turned to sports message boards to communicate news reports as well as personal reactions to the day's events.

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Track & Field: Virginia runs away with win

By Margaret Sessa-Hawkins | April 16, 2007

It was a dark and stormy day, but Virginia wasn't about to let that hold them back. Both the men's and women's track and field teams came out on top Saturday in the Lou Onesty Invitational, Virginia's annual home meet. The victories have a special significance for the Cavaliers, who are usually anywhere but Virginia for competitions. "In other sports you always talk about the home field advantage," Virginia coach Randy Bungard said.

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Sports in Brief

By Cavalier Daily Staff | April 16, 2007

No. 13 Virginia women's rowing goes 11-0 on weekend Virginia's women's rowing team swept the competition this weekend at the Windermere Real Estate Classic held at Redwood Shores, Calif.

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Baseball: Adams slams walk-off homerun

By Sean Bielawski | April 16, 2007

The University of Virginia's baseball team found itself one out away from dropping its second straight game to visiting Georgia Tech Saturday afternoon, but sophomore David Adams simply would not let that happen.