While most teams use the early season for tune-up games, the University of Richmond's women's lacrosse team has decided to take the opposite approach. Richmond's Wednesday tilt against Virginia is sandwiched between a game against Duke and a match against Maryland, arguably the three best teams in the ACC.
Currently tied with Maryland for first place in-conference, the Virginia wrestling team has its sights set on emerging from this weekend's ACC Championships as the only team on top. In the final regular season match, Virginia defeated Maryland 24-14 and earned a share of first place by improving to 4-1 in conference competition.
After playing 17 innings on Sunday in a loss to the College of Charleston, the Virginia Cavaliers (8-3) appeared to be no worse for the wear, cruising easily to an 11-5 victory over the visiting George Washington Colonials (1-4) last night at Davenport Field. The scoring began in the second inning, when freshman third baseman Jeremy Farrell, who missed Sunday's game due to intense back pain, smoked an outside fastball into the right field corner for an RBI triple. "I talked to [Farrell] right before that at-bat," coach Brian O'Connor said.
You would think that in a week characterized by hateful exams, stressful hours in Clemons and eating meals out of a vending machine that the only thing I'd hear in conversation this week would be whining and complaining.
A week ago today, there was serious NCAA tournament buzz surrounding the Virginia Cavaliers. Virginia had just blown out then-No.11 Boston College by a score of 72-58 and had what appeared to be a winnable road game against Clemson on the horizon. What a difference a week makes. "The Boston College game means nothing now," Virginia guard J.R.
With only 20 seconds remaining in regulation time, the Duke Blue Devils scored the game-winning goal and, for the second year in a row, the Virginia men's club hockey team had its hopes for an ACCHL tournament victory snatched away. The tournament took place over the weekend at Charlottesville Ice Park, with six teams competing: Duke, Virginia, Georgetown, Virginia Tech, North Carolina and George Mason.
While Coach K puts together a championship-caliber team each year at Duke, the Blue Devils are constantly antagonized by every other basketball fan.
The third-ranked Virginia men's lacrosse team (3-0) will look to continue its stellar play as it takes on the Virginia Military Institute Keydets (0-1) at Klöckner Stadium today at 4 p.m.
If you listened close enough, you could almost hear the sounds of future Virginia fans cheering above the din of construction on the arena floor.
When Virginia's Ethan McCoy dove into the pool for the anchor leg of the 400-yard medley relay at this weekend's ACC Men's Swim and Dive Championships, few expected the senior freestyle sprinter to be in position to dethrone a dangerous Seminole relay squad. In the team standings at the time, Florida State still enjoyed a significant advantage, and the final event of the second-to-last day of competition was not one in which Virginia was expected to make up much ground. Yet, after three impressive splits from juniors Vanja Rogulj and Stefan Hirniak and sophomore Bryan Stahl, McCoy found himself making the final turn of the race with a slight edge over Florida State's Alex Kennan.
CLEMSON, S.C. -- Consistency is not a word that could be used to describe this Virginia squad. Four days after an exhilarating home win over No.
On a team with no shortage of All-Americans and star power, fans of Virginia's women's lacrosse team now have another name they need to know. Freshman Blair Weymouth made an impressive home debut for the Cavaliers against the Temple Owls on Sunday.
The Virginia men's lacrosse team emerged victorious Saturday against Stony Brook without Ben Rubeor, who leads the team in points this season.
The Virginia women's basketball team defeated Clemson 83-64 yesterday in their last game at University Hall.
CLEMSON, S.C.
The University men's tennis team stemmed a flow of losses with two wins over the weekend at the Boar's Head Sports Club.
With little more than two weeks left in the regular season, Virginia (14-10, 7-6 ACC) has little wiggle room left if it hopes to make the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2001.
Despite returning from the National Team Indoor Championship with less than satisfactory results, the once top-ranked Virginia men's tennis team looks to bounce back tomorrow in a double-header. The Cavaliers lost in the first round of last weekend's tournament to the Washington Huskies, 4-1.
As the Virginia baseball team prepares for their trip down to South Carolina this weekend for the College of Charleston tournament, coach Brian O'Connor will make sure his players think about the tournament one game at a time.
Virginia travels to Chattanooga today for the Panera Bread Challenge 2006. They are scheduled for three doubleheaders -- six games Friday through Sunday against Miami of Ohio, Bowling Green, Alabama at Birmingham, Chattanooga, East Tennessee State and Maine. Coach Karen Johns is expecting a challenge from Miami, in particular.
