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Womack expected to return for fall season

As the Virginia football team kicks off spring practice, coach George Welsh said he anticipates junior tailback Antwoine Womack will return for the fall season. Womack, who will be sentenced tomorrow in Albemarle Country General District Court on a misdemeanor assault and battery charge, was arrested 13 months ago after an incident in which former University students Jonathan Dean and Cabral Thornton were assaulted. University Judiciary Committee charges against Womack were dropped prior to his trial, originally scheduled for Feb.


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McKnight in shining armor

Faced with the departure of ACC Player of the Year Tucker Radebaugh, the Virginia men's lacrosse team has had to look elsewhere for offense and leadership as it defends its 1999 national title.


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Quarles drains buckets for Cavs

After torching Boston College for a career-high 24 points Sunday and leading the Virginia women's basketball team to the Sweet Sixteen for the first time in three years, Telisha Quarles sat before reporters and waved her right hand out in front of her, fanning it for the room to see. It was quite a night for Quarles, but even after sinking five three-pointers and playing all 40 minutes in her biggest game in Cavalier uniform, the hand was still on fire. "They noticed I had the hot hand, and I was going out there and shooting it," Quarles said.


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Virginia men finish season with NIT loss

Adam Hall certainly had a good look at it. With one crossover dribble, the sophomore swingman was airborne, squared to the hoop for the three-pointer that would tie the game at 112 and give the Virginia men yet another gasp of air as they struggled to shake the exhausted but resilient Georgetown Hoyas in triple overtime. The shot was on line and very nearly went down, teasingly rattling around the rim before popping out with less than 20 seconds left.


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Cavaliers down Eagles to advance to Sweet 16

Relentless perimeter defense and clutch three-point shooting propelled the fourth-seeded Virginia women's basketball team into the third round of the NCAA Tournament with a 74-70 win over fifth-seeded Boston College Sunday night in University Hall before a crowd of 4,890. In winning their 15th straight home game, the Cavaliers (25-8) earned a date with top seed Tennessee in the Mideast Regional in Memphis, their first Sweet Sixteen appearance in three years.


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LaRue named ACC Rookie of Year

As the Virginia women's basketball team awaits an NCAA Tournament seed, freshman forward Schuye LaRue can distract herself with her new ACC Rookie of the Year award. LaRue, who earned All-ACC and All-Tournament second team honors this week, is the first Cavalier to be named the Conference's top freshman since Tora Suber in 1994. The D.C.


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Baseball falls to James Madison

HARRISONBURG-Playing in the beautiful March weather at Long Field/Mauck Stadium yesterday, the Virginia baseball team fell to a scorching James Madison squad that used a strong combination of speed and pitching to down the Cavs, 14-6. The win was the Dukes' fifth straight.

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