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Cavs sharpen skills in first scrimmage

With the ACC basketball season just getting into full swing and temperatures finally hovering around 40, last year's highest-ranked Virginia sports team, the men's lacrosse squad, took the field Saturday to battle Navy in the first of four preseason scrimmages. No official score was kept for the scrimmage, but unofficially the Cavaliers defeated the Midshipmen 10-4 at U-Hall Turf Field in the earliest scrimmage in team history -- a full three weeks before the season's first contest. "This is about as early as it gets," Virginia coach Dom Starsa said.


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Cavs square off against Clemson

The Cavaliers return to home action tonight in hopes of claiming their third conference win and exacting revenge for a one-point loss to Clemson earlier this season.


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Virginia turns over win to No. 7 Carolina

Chapel Hill, N.C. -- No. 7 North Carolina is known for its defense, but it was Nikita Bell's early second-half offensive burst that put Virginia in a hole they were unable to climb out of. The six-foot forward scored six straight points to open second half play, helping ignite the struggling Tar Heel offense into shooting 50 percent from the field and nearly doubling its first half tally on the way to a 74-54 romp over the Cavaliers.


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Turnovers, poor rebounding just won't cut it on road

Chapel Hill, N.C. -- The Tar Heels were the better team tonight. While North Carolina was calm, collected and businesslike, Virginia was sloppy, frantic and in shambles. It's not that the Cavaliers couldn't have won this game; it's not even that North Carolina was too deep, too strong or too athletic for Virginia to keep up.


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SPORTS IN BRIEF

Virginia baseball picked to finish seventh in the ACC The 2003 ACC Preseason Baseball Coaches Poll was announced yesterday with Virginia slated to finish seventh in the ACC.


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Amid Virginia's stars, Watson shines through

As one looks at the box score of tonight's game, several things jump out. Sophomore forward Jason Clark tied a career-high with 12 points and sophomore guard Keith Jenifer also tied a career-high with eight assists.


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Sports in Brief

Virginia Trio named ACC athletes of the week Freshman swimmer Fran Crippen, senior wrestler Bob Seidel and senior women's tennis player Jennifer Tuchband all received the nod as the top athletes in the ACC last week. Crippen won four events over the weekend in dual meets against UNC and Clemson.


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Defense-minded Seminoles invade U-Hall

Coming off an 85-75 upset of then-17th ranked Wake Forest, Virginia will look to stay undefeated at University Hall when Florida State comes to town tonight at 7. The Cavaliers (11-6, 2-3 ACC) should be well rested, having six days off since beating the Demon Deacons last Thursday.


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Defense wins championships

Despite 168 hours of constant scrutiny, dissection, and predictions from nearly every sports network, program and analyst last week, Sunday's Super Bowl between the Buccaneers and Raiders left many onlookers surprised not only by Tampa Bay's victory but by the convincing fashion in which it was achieved.


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Sports in Brief

Virginia Sports Hall of Fame to induct former Virginia coach Terry Holland in April The Cavaliers' all-time winningest men's basketball coach and former Athletic Director Terry Holland will be inducted to the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame April 26. Holland, who coached Virginia legends Ralph Sampson and Jeff Lamp, manned the helm of Virginia basketball from 1974-1990, compiling a record of 326-173 and leading the Cavaliers to nine NCAA appearances, an NIT Championship and the Cavaliers' only two Final Four appearances. For six years from 1990-1995, Holland also served as Virginia's Athletic Director, and currently is a special assistant to University President John T.

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