The lacrosse season has started off as well as the Virginia Cavaliers could have dreamed. The second-ranked men's lacrosse team is a perfect 6-0 on the season, fresh off the heels of an exciting 7-6 victory against fifth-ranked Princeton (2-1) on Sunday.
My friend Chad has let me wrestle his column away from him this week on the off chance that I might be able to provide readers with a slightly different take on the sports world.
For their first four games this season the Virginia men's lacrosse team has been virtually unstoppable.
In facing St. Joseph's it would be very easy for the Virginia baseball team to look ahead of the schedule past this weekend to the next, when they are facing a consensus top-five team in the country in Georgia Tech.
With the last game at University Hall scheduled for Sunday, it was only appropriate that the Hoo Crew have a surprise in store for its loyal members.
The postseason has arrived for the Virginia women's basketball team. Yes, it's that time of year again -- the ACC tournament is here.
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- Once again, the Virginia Cavaliers (14-12, 7-8 ACC) gave an embarrassing effort while on the road.
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.
