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Cavs take on two ranked opponents at home

On the heels of a win against Virginia Tech that sealed the Cavaliers' Commonwealth Challenge victory, the Virginia women's tennis team now opens the weekend at home facing tough competition from the south against North Carolina State Friday and Wake Forest Sunday. The No.


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Cavaliers return to Charlottesville to host Maryland after long road trip

Home sweet home. It is time for the Virginia softball team to finally play at Davenport Field after the 29 straight games on the road that began the season. The Cavaliers (10-19, 0-3 ACC) begin their first home series this weekend against Maryland (14-10, 0-0 ACC) with some momentum after sweeping Radford 2-1 and 9-1 Wednesday. Senior pitcher Coty Tolar picked up both wins to move to 4-5 on the year as she threw 9.2 innings, allowing one run on six hits with five strikeouts and no walks. Freshman first baseman Kelly Haller and senior designated player Brooke Sorber led the Cavaliers offensively.


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Virginia hosts Hurricanes at Davenport

The Virginia baseball team is finally gearing up for a homestand, hosting its first ACC series at Davenport Field against Miami this weekend. "Home is huge," sophomore starting pitcher Andrew Carraway said.


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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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Ahead of Lighting of the Lawn, Riley McNeill and Chelsea Huffman, co-chairs of the Lighting of the Lawn Committee and fourth-year College students, and Peter Mildrew, the president of the Hullabahoos and third-year Commerce student, discuss the festive tradition which brings the community together year after year. From planning the event to preparing performances, McNeil, Huffman and Mildrew elucidate how the light show has historically helped the community heal in the midst of hardship.