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Virginia freshman Treat Huey finishes junior career atop of national under-18 tennis rankings

By Cavalier Daily Staff | February 17, 2005

The final 2004 UTSA Boys Under-18 national rankings have come in -- and atop the list at No. 1 is Virginia freshman Treat Huey. Former top-ranked junior players in the USTA Boys Under-18 division include tennis superpowers Andy Roddick in 1999 and James Blake in 1997. Huey has had an important role on the men's tennis team so far this season, posting a 12-6 overall record in singles and an 11-3 record in doubles. Last month, Huey and fellow freshman Somdev Devvarman won the doubles title at the National Collegiate Tennis Classic in Palm Springs, Calif. Currently No.

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ACC To Give Instant Replay a Try

By Cavalier Daily Staff | February 17, 2005

At a recent winter conference meeting in Florida, Atlantic Coast Conference faculty representatives unanimously approved a plan proposed by the league's athletic directors to try instant replay for the 2005 football season. Instant replay has been a staple in the NFL since 1999 and was introduced to college football last year on a similar experimental basis in the Big Ten.

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Pete's annual hot seat cools

By Cavalier Daily Staff | February 16, 2005

Pete Gillen's annual "Save My Job" campaign hits a critical fork in the road tonight when his Cavaliers, riding a three-game winning streak to the outside fringes of the NCAA bubble, travel to Chapel Hill to face the No.

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Crew races to upper echelon of competition

By Holly Singh | February 16, 2005

The recipe for success for any college sports team calls for one ingredient: a love of the game -- Or, in this case, the race. If any team at the University knows about loving its sport, it is the men's rowing team.

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Singletary earns ACC honor for fourth time

By Cavalier Daily Staff | February 16, 2005

The recent success the men's basketball team has experienced against the soft under-belly of the ACC earned freshman Sean Singletary the conference's Rookie of the Week honor for the fourth time this season. The Philadelphia native scored 19 points and added 12 rebounds while maintaining an impressive assist-to-turnover ratio of 9-to-1 in the Cavaliers' two home victories over Florida State and rival Virginia Tech. Singletary's best performance of the week came against the Hokies as he compiled 10 points, seven rebounds, seven assists and three steals in one of his most dynamic performances of the season after struggling since the beginning of conference play. This Saturday, the 6-foot point guard will have a tough assignment when Maryland point guard, John Gilchrist, comes to U-Hall.

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Ballard's comeback produces ACC accolade

By Cavalier Daily Staff | February 16, 2005

Virginia pitcher Mike Ballard's surgically-prepared left arm passed its first test with flying colors and helped the third-year pitcher receive the ACC's Pitcher of the Week award. In his first pitching appearance since the 2003 season, the Virginia Beach native led the Cavaliers to a 2-0 victory at UNC Wilmington on Feb.

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Three assistants bring plethora of experience

By Kyle O'Connor | February 15, 2005

Glancing down the bench at a recent Virginia wrestling meet, three men stood out among the orange-and-blue-clad athletes going through their pre-game motions and head coach Lenny Bernstein. One was a light-haired man in his mid-twenties, calmly checking with officials and conversing with Cavalier head coach Bernstein before competition got under way.

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Cavs look to repeat as National Champs

By Cavalier Daily Staff | February 15, 2005

By Eric Ast Cavalier Daily Senior Writer When a team wins a championship, at some point after the trophy has been hoisted and the celebration has subsided -- and in some cases before the champagne has even dried -- the thoughts of the coaches, fans and players move to whether they'll be celebrating once again next season. While assessing a team's chances of repeating a championship win, the most immediate questions are which players the team is losing and who will be coming in to replace them.

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Sullivan breaks Virginia school record

By Cavalier Daily Staff | February 15, 2005

The Cavaliers track team competed in the Virginia Tech Challenge over the weekend as a tune-up for next week's ACC championships. David Sullivan broke his own school record in the pole vault with a second-place vault of 5.3 meters, which also qualified him for the NCAA tournament. Virginia also brought home second-place finishes in the men's and women's distance medley relays, junior Kellen Blassingame in the 400 and sophomore Alex Tatu in the mile.

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A springtime medley of thoughts

By Joe Lemire | February 15, 2005

With the weather expected to be upper 60s and sunny today, it's time to do some spring cleaning and empty out the file of random sports stories... -With no resolution to the labor dispute in sight, the National Hockey League is expected to make a formal announcement later today to cancel the 2004-05 season.

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Virginia wins two of three-game series

By Margaret Sessa-Hawkins | February 14, 2005

It was the perfect day for a game of baseball in North Carolina, and the Cavaliers were playing a tie-breaking third game in a series against Wilmington with a pitching matchup between Wilmington's Thomas Benton against the Cavaliers' Jeff Kamrath. Since the Seahawks won Friday's game and Virginia took Saturday's, Sunday's matchup was especially significant.

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Legacy continues

By Joey Mancini | February 14, 2005

I grew up in a family where three uncles attended the University of Virginia, and they and my parents (William and Mary graduates with the need to live vicariously through Virginia sports) always told me about the history of Cavalier basketball.

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