After a seemingly slow start, the fifth-ranked Virginia men’s lacrosse team managed to buckle down and find the momentum to fuel a 19-12 victory against Rutgers Saturday night at Klöckner Stadium.
In an all-too-familiar situation, the Cavaliers (1-3, 0-1 ACC) fell just short to this ranked opponent as well, as Syracuse (4-0, 1-0 ACC) used its dynamic offensive attack to cruise to a 18-14 win.
Coach Augie Busch came into the season with one lofty goal — to build the Virginia swimming and diving teams into a nationally-recognized top-five program.
Notre Dame looked helpless as the Cavaliers poured on basket after basket, and Virginia cruised to a 70-49 win. Helped by 15 points from both senior forward Akil Mitchell and redshirt sophomore forward Anthony Gill, the Cavaliers picked up their school record 14th ACC win of the season.
The Cavaliers lost their hold on the game in the first nine minutes of the second half, and despite their best efforts at a late-game comeback, Virginia fell just short, 80-74.
“The Skinny” on weekend matchups for men’s basketball, men’s and women’s lacrosse and women’s tennis.
In 2006, “Il Pomodoro Volante” — known to us non-Italians as Shaun White — took the world by storm. Iconic red hair flying, White dominated the competition at the Turin Winter Olympics and took home his first gold medal. His celebrity and the hype surrounding him grew, and in 2010 he responded with a repeat performance. White was introduced to the public as a kid with long hair and immense talent. Now, some years later, he is an adult. The hair is gone, the talent remains and one new ingredient has been added: a legion of snowboarding frenemies.
The Virginia softball team heads westward for the Mary Nutter Classic in Cathedral City, Cal. The lineup for the Cavaliers includes BYU, Pacific, Oregon State, Fresno State, and No. 6 Oregon in their final tournament of the year.
No. 1 Virginia baseball faces off against East Carolina this weekend, seeking to win its home opener for the eighth season in a row. The team downed William & Mary 17-2 Wednesday afternoon, in a game originally scheduled for Charlottesville but moved to Williamsburg due to the recent snowfall affecting field conditions.
After suffering two disappointing losses to ranked opponents in No. 4 Northwestern and No. 6 Loyola Maryland, the No. 9 Virginia women’s lacrosse team (1-2) notched its first win of the season against Richmond (1-2) Wednesday night, dominating 18-9. Despite giving up 19 turnovers, most of which came early in the game, Virginia displayed an overall solid performance that pleased coach Julie Meyers.
The Virginia baseball team steamrolled William & Mary, 17-2, Tuesday evening in Williamsburg, V.A. for its third straight win since a loss to Kentucky on opening day. The No. 1 Cavaliers matched their highest run total from last season while working over the Tribe pitchers for 19 hits in 43 at-bats.
The Virginia women’s basketball team attempts to hold onto its winning record this Thursday as it takes on ACC powerhouse No. 11 North Carolina at home.
With less than four minutes to go in its Tuesday night road game against Virginia Tech, the No. 14 Virginia men’s basketball team trailed 46-42 and was staring down an embarrassing defeat to its hated rival.
Virginia will look to further cement itself as the conference’s top team this week, as the Cavaliers will compete in the ACC Championships in Greensboro, N.C.
The Virginia volleyball team and head coach Dennis Hohenshelt announced today that Stephanie Ross has been brought on as a new assistant coach, replacing Steve Mussie who left recently to fill the same role at Penn State.
It was quite a week for the ACC. The outgoing conference pariahs known as the Dirty Terps came about as close as you can to upsetting the Blue Devils, Maryland’s hated rivals and the darlings of the ACC, at Cameron Indoor.
Harris and Mitchell are the last two standing out of Tony Bennett’s second recruiting class at Virginia, which arrived in Charlottesville with six — yes, six — members of varying levels of esteem. For your weekly history lesson, I’ll give you an idea of who those other four players were and where they are now.
No. 12 Virginia wrestling ended its 2013-14 regular season by dismantling George Mason, with the Cavaliers (18-3, 5-1 ACC) winning nine of the afternoon’s 10 matches against the Patriots (6-11, 0-2 EWL) en route to a 34-3 victory.
The No. 30 women’s golf team kicked off the spring season with a fourth-place finish at the Florida State Match-Up Tournament. After opening the event in fifth place following a 10-over 298 Friday, the team shot 8-over and 6-over Saturday and Sunday, respectively, to post a weekend total of 24-over at 888 strokes.
Virginia track & field competed in three different events across the nation this weekend. The Cavaliers took yet another long stride toward next week’s ACC Championships, setting two school records and three freshmen records along the way.
