An agonizing weekend for the Virginia softball team ended yesterday with two losses in the Hoo's Who Tournament and a half-hour postgame team meeting. After the Cavaliers (11-25) squandered a two-run lead and Penn State took a 7-4 extra-inning win in the second game of a doubleheader, coach Cheryl Sprangel held a lengthy meeting in rightfield with the demoralized players.
After dishing out a handful of beatings this season, the Virginia women's lacrosse team found itself on the receiving end of one Saturday afternoon, falling to North Carolina 12-5. The No.
When Virginia fifth-year senior Ashley Widger walked off the field after the Cavaliers' 16-6 loss to Maryland in last season's NCAA women's lacrosse championship game May 16, it seemed to mark the end of her collegiate career.
In the first of three days of competition, the No. 7 Virginia men's swimming team began the 2000 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships with strong performances from its 400-meter medley relay team and senior Austin Ramirez. The medley foursome of sophomores Chris Mousetis and Ed Moses, junior Troy Johnson and senior Doak Finch finished fourth with a time of 3:33.47. Ramirez swam a 3:47.76 in the 400 freestyle to take eighth.
The Virginia softball team will kick off the 2000 UVA Hoo's Who Tournament at when they face Pittsburgh at noon and Bowling Green at 4:00 p.m.
The Virginia men's lacrosse team will renew a long-standing rivalry between powerhouse programs when they take on Johns Hopkins tomorrow at Klöckner Stadium at 2 p.m. The No.
After being rained out at home against Virginia Commonwealth Tuesday, the Virginia baseball team gets back into action this weekend with a three-game series against Wake Forest.
The Virginia women's basketball team hopes to infect top-seeded Tennessee with the March Madness bug by upsetting the six-time national champions Saturday in Memphis. The fourth-seeded Cavs (25-8) advanced to their first Sweet Sixteen appearance in three years Sunday by defeating fifth-seeded Boston College 74-70.
And you thought the movie "Magnolia" was impossible to understand - try explaining the NCAA to your friends. In recent weeks, the governing body of intercollegiate athletics has sent more mixed signals than your average soap opera femme fatale. I could ramble on and on about the convoluted sagas of Erick Barkley, DerMarr Johnson and Chris Porter, but I'll save you the confusion by focusing on two of the most twisted tales of all: the sad stories of Jamal Crawford and Nate Webster. Crawford, a precocious swingman on the Michigan basketball team, was suspended by the NCAA for eight games this season because he declared his eligibility for the NBA draft the summer prior to his freshman campaign in Ann Arbor. Related Links NCAA online University of Miami football University of Michigan men's basketball Makes perfect sense, right?
The Virginia men's swimming and diving team will be well represented at this weekend's NCAA Championships in Minneapolis.
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.
The Virginia women's lacrosse team has a tough couple weeks ahead of it as it faces off against five top 20 opponents.
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.
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.
The No. 3 Virginia women's lacrosse team faces a tough in-state challenge today when No. 20 William & Mary, coming off a tight overtime defeat, looks for redemption in Charlottesville.
Was I the only one who heard that loud sound of NCAA Tournament brackets tearing up into shreds Sunday night? With St.
In the Cleveland Collegiate Challenge, the men's golf team finished in second place, five shots ahead of Virginia Tech and seven shots behind Augusta State.
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.
Virginia 125-pounder Steve Garland reached the finals of the NCAA wrestling championships but lost 7-3 to second-seed Jeremy Hunter of Penn State Saturday in St.
It's been a long road back to the Sweet Sixteen for the Virginia women's basketball team. But what a fun ride it's been. After losing DeMya Walker and Monick Foote to graduation, most observers were already thinking of this year as a rebuilding season.
