After opening the weekend with two prolific offensive outbursts, the No. 1 North Carolina baseball team shut out Virginia Tech 3-0 Sunday to complete the sweep and tighten its stranglehold on ACC supremacy.
As yet another semester draws to a close, teachers naturally ramp up the workload in an attempt to make sure they cover all their material by the time finals roll around.
As soon as the curtain closed on a surprisingly successful 2012-13 Virginia men’s basketball season, the team and its supporters turned their attention eagerly to next season, when the team was initially expected to return all starters except for senior point guard Jontel Evans and add a slew of talented contributors.
A Curry School Dean and several Virginia students who ran in Monday’s Boston Marathon are safe after two bombs exploded simultaneously at the finish line just before 3 p.m. .
The top-ranked Virginia men’s tennis team reached its milestone 100th consecutive ACC victory Friday with a 7-0 shutout against No. 25 Clemson, and then continued the streak with a 6-1 victory against Georgia Tech Saturday in Charlottesville.
The No. 17 Virginia women’s tennis team stretched its winning streak to six matches Saturday against No. 19 Georgia Tech in Atlanta before falling to No. 14 Clemson Sunday in South Carolina.
The No. 5 Virginia baseball team’s trip to Atlanta ended with an unfamiliar result Sunday as No. 17 Georgia Tech took the rubber match to hand the Cavaliers their first ACC series loss this season.
Leading 13-9 midway through the third quarter in a must-win game, the Virginia men’s lacrosse team looked poised to halt its five-game skid against No. 7 Duke at Koskinen Stadium. However, the Blue Devils would take control of the high-scoring contest late in the game, using a 10-1 run to come away with a 19-16 victory in both teams’ final regular season conference game.
Johns Hopkins freshman attacker Jenna Reifler unleashed what proved to be the deciding goal with 19.5 seconds remaining in a game the Cavaliers had described as a “must-win.”
I understand that it’s the job of compliance divisions at every college campus to monitor what we athletes do and make sure we aren’t getting into trouble. However, they should not revoke our freedom of speech just because we are student-athletes.
The Cavaliers will be in Atlanta Saturday looking to knock off No. 19 Georgia Tech before traveling to Clemson the following day to face No. 14 Clemson.
A shorthanded Virginia softball team swept Delaware State in a Wednesday afternoon doubleheader, 9-1 and 10-1, each in five innings.
Wednesday, more than a year after fellow Big South member Liberty stunned the home crowd, Radford flipped the script on the nation’s fifth-ranked team to earn its biggest upset in school history. The Highlanders blitzed junior starter Artie Lewicki in his long-awaited return from Tommy John surgery, tallying three runs in the top of the first and built a 9-1 lead through two innings.
Though Virginia sits at No. 11 in the current IWLCA Coaches Poll, every one of the Cavaliers, from coach Julie Myers to the last player off the bench, understands that their regular season, a day-by-day process begun in the cold of February, now rides on its last two contests.
After dropping its fifth straight game last Saturday in a 10-7 loss to No. 3 North Carolina, the Virginia men’s lacrosse team finds itself unranked for the first time since 2004 and in desperate need of a win as the Cavaliers close out their conference schedule on the road Friday against No. 7 Duke.
On April 23, 2006, the Virginia men’s tennis team lost in the ACC Championship match 4-3 to Duke. The team took the doubles point and two singles matches for a 3-0 lead, but the Blue Devils fought back for the conference title. Three weeks passed and the Cavaliers downed Wake Forest in the NCAA Round of 32 and today – nearly seven years later – they have yet to lose to a conference opponent.
On the heels of an impressive sweep of Wake Forest this past weekend, the No. 5 Virginia baseball team (30-3, 12-3 ACC) will host Radford (19-11, 7-2 Big South) Wednesday.
The No. 18 Virginia women’s tennis team (13-7, 6-1 ACC) has been virtually unstoppable in recent weeks, going 10-1 since losing to third-ranked Texas A&M. Success has not come easy for the Cavaliers, though, as injuries have threatened to derail their stellar performance.
The Masters is similar to the UVA of golf majors. Both the green jacket ceremony and our University relish unabashedly in championing pretentious traditions.
The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame announced Monday that Virginia legend, WNBA standout, three-time Olympic gold medalist and successful collegiate head coach Dawn Staley will join 12 others as part of the Class of 2013. She will become the first Cavalier women’s basketball player to be inducted into the Springfield, Mass. institution.
