Virginia continues home stand vs. VMI
By Paul Montana | February 27, 2007After reeling off eight wins in eight days, No. 9 Virginia (10-1) looks to remain unbeaten at Davenport Field as they take on VMI (5-2) tonight.
After reeling off eight wins in eight days, No. 9 Virginia (10-1) looks to remain unbeaten at Davenport Field as they take on VMI (5-2) tonight.
Women's basketball sophomore Lyndra Littles was named to the 2007 All-ACC second team. Littles leads the Cavaliers in scoring (16.8 ppg) and rebounds (8.9 rpg). With the 2007 ACC tournament announced, the No.
By a quick show of hands, who here would trade all their toes (and maybe a few fingers) to be a hotshot college baseball player?
In the Landfall Tradition Tournament -- the last tournament the Virginia women's golf team competed in this fall -- the Cavaliers took first place after winning a tiebreaker against Michigan State.
The mark of a good basketball team is its ability to win games from day to day despite not always putting forth its best effort. The Virginia men's basketball team has made a good case to join this category.
The Virginia baseball team swept its weekend series against Bucknell, which included two victories in a Saturday doubleheader.
Sports journalism isn't rocket science. Typically, it involves a relatively knowledgeable person watching a game live and then reflecting on that game in an objective (game story) or subjective (column) manner.
The No. 3 Virginia men's tennis team (10-1) competed almost flawlessly at the Boyd Tinsley Courts this weekend.
An old saying goes something like, "Getting to the top is easy; it's staying there that is the hard part." Nothing could be truer for the Virginia men's basketball team, which earlier this week tied for first place in the ACC for the second time this season.
After recording their first loss of the season at the National Team Indoor tournament last weekend, the No.
Last Sunday's upset by the Drexel men's lacrosse team surely put a bounce in the step of Stony Brook's squad during practice this week.
The Virginia women's tennis team will travel to Cambridge, Mass. Saturday and Providence, R.I. Sunday to take on Harvard and Brown, respectively.
The Virginia baseball team just keeps rolling along, winning last night against Coppin State to continue a five-game stretch in which it has outscored its opponents 65-5.
The completion of the NBA All-Star Game this weekend in Las Vegas was a somber denouement to the month-long extravaganza of all-star exhibitions in three major professional sports.
The Virginia softball team's early-season tour through sunny cities resumes today when it heads to Palm Springs, Calif.
Today, the men's and women's track and field teams travel to Clemson, S.C. to participate in the ACC Indoor Track Championships. The men finished sixth among some very tight competition last year -- just 12 points separated third place from seventh place -- while the women's team took ninth place. The men "would like to finish in the top three," senior distance runner Kevin McHale said.
As the No. 9-ranked Virginia women's lacrosse team walked off University Hall Turf Field last night, not a frown was to be found on anyone's face. The Cavaliers handed a severe beating to the Hokies in their season-opener with a 15-2 win, immediately bringing them to first place in the conference with a 1-0 record overall and in the ACC.
The Virginia men's basketball team fell to Miami last night in Coral Gables, 68-60. With Virginia Tech's victory last night against Boston College, Virginia and Virginia Tech now both hold ACC records of 9-4, sharing second place in the conference. The Cavaliers shot only 39 percent and hit only 33 percent of their three-point shots. Junior Sean Singletary led the Cavaliers with 17 points and senior J.R.
The Cavaliers came out of the gate strong yesterday, tagging Coppin State freshman pitcher Drew Boyer for six runs in the first inning.
The Virginia women's basketball team will take to the road tonight with the hope of not returning to John Paul Jones Arena, the site of this year's Women's National Invitation Tournament, this season. "Two teams from our conference went to the NCAA tournament with 6-8 [ACC] records last year," Virginia coach Debbie Ryan said.