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Rubeor overcomes all odds

While watching junior Ben Rubeor score a career-high seven goals Saturday against Towson, someone in the press box remarked how different the Virginia men's lacrosse team would be without its star attackman.


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Virginia ready to do battle with Bulls

After a dramatic victory over Charlotte, the Virginia women's basketball team will look to extend its season tonight against South Florida in the third round of the WNIT tournament at John Paul Jones Arena. To win however, the Cavaliers will need to demonstrate a better defensive performance than they did last Monday.


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Who's the king of spring?

With the men's basketball successful season now complete and the focus shifting almost exclusively to spring sports, there is no clear answer as to which sport is king of the season.


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Softball: Virginia seeks to finish road schedule with win

It has been a long road trip for the Virginia softball team and it finally ends today. The Cavaliers head down to Radford University today for a doubleheader to finish up the 29 consecutive road games that began their season. The Cavaliers have experienced ups and downs throughout the long stretch of road games, games that appear to have slowly worn Virginia down. Virginia (8-19, 0-3) was 3-2 in its first part of the road trip, a tournament in Tampa, Fla.


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Cavs look to regroup after losses

Despite a gutsy performance against North Carolina in last weekend's series, the Virginia softball team came up short losing all three games. Friday's game was moved to Saturday because of inclement weather, and Saturday's doubleheader was moved to Sunday.


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Duff adjusts to college competition, helps lead Cavs

When Kaitlin Duff found out from another teammate that she was named National Player of the Week by womenslacrosse.com, it was hard for her to act in any other way but surprised. "I didn't even know they had those kinds of things, so I was really surprised," Duff said.


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Littles hits game winner to give Cavs two-point win

Sophomore forward Lyndra Littles may have been suffering from a stomach virus, but it was the Charlotte 49ers who were left feeling sick last night as Littles connected on a jumper right under the basket with four seconds left to give the Virginia women's basketball team a dramatic 74-72 victory in the second round of the WNIT tournament. With the game's fate hanging in the balance, it was not Virginia coach Debbie Ryan but junior guard Sharneé Zoll who picked the play that would give Virginia it's 18th victory of the season. "I'm not going to brag," Zoll said.


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The end of the blue era?

I don't know where you were Thursday night, but at my rambunctious house of 16 testosterone-filled men, you would have thought the Cavaliers were playing their opening round game Thursday evening instead of Friday midday. The loud claps and screaming at the television -- I have yet to accept that the players can't hear us -- were not for the Virginia Cavaliers but for the Virginia Commonwealth Rams. My intuition tells me it was not so much an expression of love for our fellow Commonwealth brethren, but rather our hope that the No.


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Rubeor leads Cavaliers to victory over Towson

As the Virginia men's lacrosse team defeated Towson University 13-9 Saturday afternoon, junior attackman Ben Rubeor scored a career-high seven goals and the Cavaliers extended their winning streak to six games, the longest in the nation. "I am just glad we were able to get the win," Rubeor said.


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Honor we can all agree on

COLUMBUS, OHIO -- I sat down in front of my computer to analyze the game that just ended between Virginia and Tennessee in the second round of the NCAA Tournament here at Nationwide Arena in Columbus.


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Cavaliers prep for late season run in WNIT

The Virginia women's basketball team will begin its quest for a postseason title when it takes on Charlotte in the second round of the WNIT tonight at John Paul Jones Arena. The Cavaliers received a first-round bye after going 17-14 in the regular season.

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