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Coach Brian O'Connor and the Cavaliers enjoyed a fairytale ending in Omaha, defeating Vanderbilt for the first national championship in program history.
The Cavaliers defeated the Commodores, 4-2, in Game 3 Wednesday night in Omaha. The improbable national championship is the first in program history.
The Virginia baseball team captured its maiden national championship Wednesday night in Omaha with a 4-2 win against Vanderbilt at TD Ameritrade Park. The Cavaliers (44-24, 15-15) — in danger of missing the ACC tournament earlier this season — edged the Commodores (51-21, 21-10 SEC) for the second time in two nights, completing an improbable trek to the title.
The Virginia baseball team defeated Vanderbilt by a 3-0 final score Tuesday night in Omaha, evening the College World Series Finals at one game apiece. Freshman left-hander Adam Haseley blanked the Commodores for five innings in his first start since May 23, and junior closer Josh Sborz followed with four shutdown frames, spurring the Cavaliers (43-24, 15-15 ACC) to victory.
The Florida Gators piled up 68 runs in their first six NCAA Tournament games, averaging 11.3 runs per contest and topping 10 in a game five times. Only the Florida Atlantic Owls — who fell to Florida, 2-1, on the last day of May — had held the SEC tournament champs below eight runs.
The Virginia women’s rowing team won the Varsity Four national title Sunday at the NCAA Championships in Gold River, California. As a team, the Cavaliers placed fifth overall for the third consecutive year as a result of the Varsity Four’s victory and the Varsity Eight’s third-place finish.
Before this season, Virginia junior Ryan Shane had won just one match at the NCAA Men’s Singles Championship. But Monday at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, Shane emerged from the 64-player field a champion.
After falling to top-ranked Oklahoma in the heart of the regular season, the Virginia men’s tennis team flipped the script Tuesday in the NCAA Men’s Tennis Championship finals.
The No. 3 Virginia rowing team won the ACC Championship Saturday in Clemson, South Carolina, finishing first in all five races and dominating ACC foes, including nationally ranked No. 16 Syracuse, No. 19 Notre Dame and No. 23 Louisville. The conference title is the Cavaliers’ sixth consecutive and 15th in the last 16 years.
Sunday, the Virginia men’s lacrosse team will begin postseason play against Johns Hopkins for the second consecutive year. For the Cavaliers, the first-round showdown might just be the program’s biggest contest since the 2011 national championship game.
Several star Virginia athletes have played their last games in the orange and blue. Here’s a look at eight of the players fans will miss most.
Virginia athletics enjoyed a memorable semester. Following are 10 of the brightest moments from the past few months.
Virginia track and field competed at the Penn Relays April 23-25. Cavalier athletes measured up to an elite pool in a number of events, though they were unable to come away with any wins.
After a solid first two months of the season back in 2011, the Virginia men’s lacrosse team used a dominating victory against Pennsylvania to conclude the regular season and kick-start a national championship run. While the NCAA victor will take another month to be decided, Saturday night provided an eerily similar ending to the Cavaliers’ 2015 slate.
When the ACC released its annual 18-member All-Conference team Wednesday, Virginia fans found just one Cavalier representative — sophomore goalie Matt Barrett. But judging from a 0-4 conference record, those numbers should have sounded just about right.
After closing the regular season with the most wins in five years, the No. 5 Virginia women’s lacrosse team looks to continue that success in the postseason, starting with the ACC Tournament held in Charlottesville this week.
The two-day Virginia Challenge concluded Saturday night with Cavalier track and field athletes competing in fan favorite events in an electric atmosphere at Lannigan Field.
Steady rain forced Cavalier track and field athletes into University Hall Tuesday, where they continued practicing. Runners warmed up in the underground tunnels, while jumpers and throwers assembled in a vaulted space known as “The Cage,” training for an important home meet, the Virginia Challenge, only three days out.
For Virginia guard Justin Anderson, the decision to forgo his final year of eligibility and declare for the NBA Draft was not an easy one.
Men’s Lacrosse