Before the season began, Virginia men's tennis coach Brian Boland knew his team would take some lumps over the course of the season, especially with such a young and relatively inexperienced team.
Valhaly defeats Chang on professional circuit Brian Valhaly, a 2001 graduate and former Virginia men's tennis player, battled back from being down a match point in the breaker and beat Michael Chang on Tuesday by a score of 6-4, 1-6, 7-6 (6). Chang and Valhaly met at a tournament in Los Angeles, Calif.
HARRISONBURG, Va. - Yesterday's scenery was new, but the result was definitively the same. The Virginia baseball team (16-14, 5-4 ACC) - who lost to James Madison (21-7) at home Monday - traveled to Harrisonburg yesterday, only to have the Dukes give them the same message, and deliver it even louder. The Cavaliers fell by a margin of 13-4, eight runs more than they allowed the previous afternoon.
The Virginia softball team (32-13) ran its home winning streak to 30 games today by sweeping the visiting Marshall Thundering Herd (10-16) in an afternoon doubleheader.
In the midst of a three-game winning streak, the Virginia women's lacrosse team is ready to take on in-state rival James Madison tonight at 7 p.m. The Cavaliers (8-2) have proved a strong force in the NCAA as reflected in their fourth-ranked standing in the Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches Association poll and standing atop the ACC. Although Virginia will enter tomorrow night's game with a definite advantage, senior defender Tiffany Schummer is aware of JMU's strengths and abilities on the playing field.
Virginia midfielder Chris Rotelli was named ACC men's lacrosse player of the week Monday after leading the Cavaliers to an 11-10 victory in their conference opener Saturday against Maryland. Rotelli, a junior from Rumford, R.I., played a role in four of the Cavaliers' last six goals, including the final three.
COLLEGE PARK, MD - Before every Easter celebration, first there is a Christmas. And in Saturday afternoon's game against the No.
Down 3-2 in the eighth inning, the Virginia baseball team could not mount a comeback and James Madison defeated the Cavaliers in Charlottesville yesterday.
Sophomore trio leads Virginia to best ever finish The Virginia men's swimming and diving team took 11th at the NCAA championships in Athens, Ga.
In the middle of the first half last night, Juan Dixon, playing defense for Maryland, reached out with his long, lanky arms, as he has done hundreds of times before, and stole a pass he'd been watching from the very beginning, as he's done so many times before. In a second, the ball was downcourt to Maryland's Chris Wilcox.
After a disappointing 1-3 weekend on the road against Georgia State and ACC rival Georgia Tech, the Virginia softball team (30-13, 0-2 ACC) returns to Charlottesville today, looking to regroup in its doubleheader against Marshall University (10-14, 3-3 Mid-American Conference). Against Georgia State Friday, Virginia began its weekend in Atlanta with a two-game split.
The Virginia men's tennis team was back in Charlottesville on Thursday to continue its busy schedule with a match against Brown.
The unique thing about the college baseball season is the very quick turnarounds between games. The Virginia men's baseball team will experience this aspect of the game firsthand this weekend. Two days after falling to a surging VCU team, the Cavaliers (15-10, 4-2 ACC) will have to turn right back around and host the red-hot North Carolina Tar Heels (17-8, 6-0), who have won 11 straight and sit atop the ACC.
Expect a tough physical and mental game Saturday afternoon when the Virginia women's lacrosse team faces a fresh style of play against Temple at 1 p.m.
After sweeping two regattas already this season, the undefeated Virginia crew team travels to Michigan for the annual ACC/Big Ten Dual tomorrow.
Tomorrow's men's lacrosse matchup between the ACC's top two teams promises excitement as the Cavaliers (5-1, 0-0 ACC) travel to College Park, Md., to take on the Terrapins (6-1, 1-1). The No.
Virginia sophomore Luke Anderson finished sixth in the finals of the 50-yard freestyle at the NCAA swimming championships in Athens, Ga.
After months of extensive training, intense competition and a successful 9-1 regular season that culminated in a second-place finish at the ACC Championships, ten members of the Virginia women
RICHMOND, Va. - It was deja vu. Exactly one month before, on Feb. 27, a visiting Virginia Commonwealth University baseball team used a five-run fifth inning to break open a close game and beat Virginia, 13-7. Yesterday, VCU (17-10) used a five-run sixth inning to snap a 1-1 tie and secure a 6-1 victory over the visiting Cavaliers at The Diamond. Trying to extend a three-game winning streak after sweeping Duke last weekend, Virginia (15-10) opened the game's scoring in the top of the fourth inning.
This weekend, baseball fans will make pilgrimages to the hallowed grounds of Wrigley, Shea and even the stadium formerly known as Enron to watch the boys of summer start their regular season.
