The home field advantage: It receives a lot of press, but really how important is it? Truth be told, it depends on the host's opposition and, as the Towson men's lacrosse team (1-2) will discover Saturday, the Cavaliers (7-0) welcome the opportunity to play on hostile turf.
Most freshman pitchers don't reach the low 90s on their fastballs. Most pitchers are not integral parts of their bullpen on day one.
It was the top of the fourth, and Virginia freshman pitcher Kevin Arico had worked the count full on Navy freshman leadoff hitter Jonathan Wright.
Practice has just ended, and a group of five guys is walking out of JPJ. Their workout today consisted of shooting drills, offensive and defensive breakdowns, and a full-court scrimmage.
The No. 66 Virginia women's tennis team enjoyed a fairly successful Spring Break, splitting a couple of crucial ACC road matches this past weekend after a week off. The Cavaliers swept No.
The Virginia women's lacrosse team had its ups and downs over three Spring Break games. It began its run by knocking off No.
With less than a week until the 65-team field for the NCAA Tournament is picked, the Virginia men's basketball team has one last shot to earn a bid: a run at the conference title in the ACC Tournament this Thursday through Sunday. The Cavaliers (15-14, 5-11 ACC) are scheduled to play seventh-seeded Georgia Tech (14-16, 7-9 ACC) Thursday at 7 p.m.
Walking around Grounds, students see club sports practices all the time, but chances are, you have never stopped to watch the men's club squash team practice off-Grounds at the Albemarle Racquet Club.
The Virginia softball team split a midweek doubleheader against James Madison University yesterday, losing the first game 4-0 before taking the second game 2-1. Virginia (7-13, 2-1 ACC) began the afternoon with a shutout loss to the Dukes in which JMU junior pitcher Jenny Clohan allowed only six hits and one walk over seven innings while striking out two. Clohan "threw a great game," Virginia coach Eileen Schmidt said.
It was supposed to be a rebuilding year. Having lost several of its best swimmers from the 2007-08 roster, the Virginia men's swim and dive team was not supposed to win the ACC Championship and it certainly was not supposed to do so by a margin of 273 points. Nevertheless, during Spring Break the Cavalier men dominated the competition, captured the 2008 conference crown and -- for the first time since 2004 -- the Virginia swimming and diving program swept the ACCs, bringing home both the men's and women's titles. "I was nervous going into this meet, especially after last year where I thought we were going to win for sure and we got kind of blown out," senior PJ Sullivan said.
With traditional powerhouses Syracuse and Princeton on the Spring Break schedule, Virginia men's lacrosse coach Dom Starsia predicted an exciting and difficult stretch of lacrosse for his Cavaliers.
There are few things as emotionally draining in sports as a narrowly missed chance to upset a favored rival.
Things may be turning around for the Virginia softball team. After an opening weekend that saw the Cavaliers go 0-5, Virginia (6-12, 2-1) has won four of its past six contests.
Fresh off losing two of three games in its opening conference series against N.C. State during the weekend, the Virginia baseball team regrouped and resumed its non-conference domination against Radford Tuesday, winning 8-2 to improve to 11-0 in non-conference play. "We had a rough weekend against N.C.
"Sometimes, at the height of our revelries, when our joy is at its zenith, when all is most right with the world, the most unthinkable disasters descend upon us." While what happened to the Virginia football team the last two months might not be as bad as how Ralphie Parker describes the senseless devouring of his Christmas turkey by the Bumpus' dogs in "A Christmas Story," it's safe to say things were looking up for Virginia in early January. Sure it started on a sour note -- the Alex Trlica field goal that gave Texas Tech the Gator Bowl victory.
Last Saturday, the Virginia baseball team found itself in a similar situation to where it was last year around this time.
The No. 24 Virginia women's basketball team had a productive Spring Break, going 2-1 and reaching the semifinals of the ACC Tournament in Greensboro, N.C.
At 14-14 overall and 4-11 in the conference going into Sunday's game against Maryland, even a convincing win in the Cavaliers' final home game could not make things right.
How does one really describe what Singletary means? Let's check the dictionary: Singletary (v.)
It has been a rough season for Virginia. High hopes of another trip to go dancing were slowly demolished in the cruelest of fashions as the Cavs consistently lost to conference foes by the smallest of margins.
