The Virginia women's swimming and diving team finished second in this weekend's ACC championships in College Park, Md. North Carolina finished in first place with 686.5 points, followed by Virginia with 632 and Florida State with 577.
Virginia junior All-American Mirjana Bosevska was named the meet's most valuable swimmer. Bosevska won the 200-yard butterfly and the 200 and 400 individual medleys and swam on the Cavaliers' winning 800 freestyle relay. Bosevska's time of 1 minute, 58.77 seconds in the 200 fly was a pool record and a NCAA qualifying time.
Virginia's only other first-place finisher was junior All-American Cara Lane, who won the 1650 free in 16:11.49.
Baseball takes two of three in South Carolina tournament
The Virginia baseball team finished on the winning side of a one-run battle yesterday, beating the Citadel a day after falling to Western Carolina.
In a game marred by defensive mishaps, the Cavaliers (5-1) edged the Citadel (2-5) when freshman shortstop Mark Reynolds scored the game-winning run in the eighth inning on a Citadel error to bring the final score to 5-4.
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Virginia jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the fourth inning, but the Bulldogs answered with four unearned runs in the bottom half of the frame. Virginia tied it up in the fifth on the game's only earned run - a RBI single by Reynolds.
The Cavaliers knocked off Old Dominion (3-3)on Friday, 12-4, behind three home runs and seven RBIs from senior third baseman Dan Street. Junior catcher Andrew Riesenfeld and senior outfielder David Stone also hit home runs.
On Saturday, Western Carolina (4-1)rallied from a 3-1 deficit to surge past the Cavaliers on an eighth inning game-winning home run, with a final score of 4-3.
- Compiled by J.D. Moss and Chip Knighton
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