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Cavaliers look to snap Clemson win streak

By Ben Ashwell | March 23, 2012

The Virginia baseball team looks to build on a 12-3 Wednesday night drubbing of VMI when it hosts Clemson this weekend for a three-game series. Virginia (12-8-1, 2-4 ACC) had lost three in a row before downing the Keydets with an impressive offensive showing which featured a total of 16 hits, including four from junior shortstop Chris Taylor and three from freshman outfielder Mike Papi.

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Seminoles spoil Senior Night

By Ashley Robertson and Matt Welsh | March 2, 2012

It should have been a Senior Night to remember. Senior forward Mike Scott posted 28 points, 10 rebounds and gave his team a 58-47 lead with 4 minutes 58 seconds remaining, but the Virginia men's basketball team couldn't reward the senior's effort with a win during his last home game.

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Virginia seeks return to winning ways

By Chanhong Luu | March 2, 2012

The Virginia baseball team hosts a three-team round robin tournament this weekend at Davenport Field as the squad looks to bounce back from Tuesday's 8-0 home loss to Liberty, the team's first regular-season shutout against a non-conference foe in more than a decade. The Cavaliers (5-2-1) open the weekend against Wright State (1-5) this afternoon before facing Seton Hall (2-5) for the nightcap of a doubleheader.

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Team eyes ACC Tourney

By Daniel Weltz | March 1, 2012

The Virginia women's basketball team may have solidified its NCAA Tournament resume with a three-game winning streak to wrap up conference play, but the Cavaliers can leave nothing to chance in tonight's opening round match-up of the ACC Tournament against 11th-seeded

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Hope for the best, expect the worst

By Ben Baskin | March 1, 2012

After the Virginia-North Carolina basketball game last weekend, I felt naive. Naive for sincerely believing we had a chance to pull off the upset, believing it up until Jontel Evans’ last-second heave, which had more of a chance of shattering the backboard than going through the net. You know that feeling you get when you just know something bad is about to happen, yet you stubbornly choose to ignore your concerns, only to watch them unfold exactly as you had foreseen? It’s a feeling of stupidity, of incredulity.

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Wrestler rebounds

By Zack Bartee | February 29, 2012

Five years ago redshirt senior Matt Nelson suffered a blow to his temple in wrestling practice which left him with a concussion. At the time, few people could have foreseen how the injury would derail his promising athletic career.

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Track teams finish fourth at ACC Indoors

February 29, 2012

The Virginia men's and women's track and field teams posted a pair of fourth-place team finishes at the ACC Indoor Championships in Boston last weekend. The Cavaliers' day was highlighted by individual victories for seniors Marcus Robinson and Mark Amirault and juniors Morgane Gay and Pearl Bickersteth. Robinson's opening mark of 53 feet, 6.5 inches in the triple jump stood up to earn the All-American his second gold in the event.

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