After losing eight of nine games in the Red and Black Tournament and Cavalier Classic, the Virginia softball team has an opportunity to win three games in a row for the second time this season with a doubleheader Wednesday against Longwood University. The Cavaliers (9-23, 4-5 ACC) have struggled to find a regular level of performance.
Virginia and Old Dominion varsity sports will face off for the third time in less than two weeks when the Virginia women's lacrosse team hosts the Monarchs tonight in a bid to continue its home dominance.
InRich.com reported that Cavalier linebacker J'Courtney Williams was arrested Monday by University Police.
The Virginia women's lacrosse team prevailed 13-9 in Durham to beat Duke Saturday, becoming the first team to defeat the Blue Devils at home in 19 games. Virginia got out to a strong start against the Blue Devils with an 8-2 halftime advantage.
After splitting the first two games of the weekend series with N.C. State (19-18, 3-6), the Cavaliers found themselves down by a run in the bottom of the seventh inning Sunday.
The Virginia men's tennis team maintained its flawless record this weekend as it rolled over ACC foes Miami and Florida State.
From the day Brian O'Connor accepted the Virginia head coaching position, two things he has constantly stressed have been excellent pitching and solid fundamentals.
The Maryland men's lacrosse team tarnished the top-ranked Cavaliers' perfect record Saturday, handing them a 13-7 defeat at Byrd Stadium. The Terrapins (7-2, 2-1 ACC) scored first and maintained the lead for the full 60 minutes.
It took the length of the regular season, but after amassing a 22-8 record including 10 wins in conference play, the Virginia women's basketball team cracked the AP Top 25 as it headed to the ACC Tournament in early March as the No.
Having lost a heartbreaker to then-No. 4 Princeton Saturday, the Virginia women's lacrosse team knew it had to dominate unranked James Madison from the outset.
After a four-match road swing, the top-ranked Virginia men's tennis team returns to the Snyder Tennis Center for the first time this spring to take on No.
Cavalier Daily Associate Editor For the next two weekends, the Virginia women's tennis team will be on the road.
From top to bottom, men's lacrosse in the ACC provides challenging opponents, especially on the road.
Virginia's No. 18 baseball team snapped an 18-game home winning streak in its 17-5 blowout loss Wednesday to George Washington University.
For Sean Singletary, this season certainly wasn't as he envisioned it. Watching his team have its season end at the hands of Bradley, a middle-of-the-pack squad in the Missouri Valley Conference, wasn't how he expected it would end, either. What was he thinking when, as he received yet another standing ovation, he walked off the court at JPJ for the last time? Something only Sean would think. "Just 'I need to get some rest, and get back in the gym,'" he said.
It's fascinating to notice just how much sports enter the mind of the general public, even for those who don't go out of their way to follow athletic competition.
The Virginia pitching staff had no answers for George Washington yesterday, as the Colonials went on an offensive rampage and defeated Virginia 17-5. The loss was Virginia's first at home in 2008 and the 17 runs given up were the most the Virginia pitching staff has allowed since 2004, when the Cavaliers (20-5, 5-4 ACC) lost 22-3 at Miami. "We got ours tonight," Virginia coach Brian O'Connor said.
Virginia softball took both games of a doubleheader against George Mason yesterday. The Cavaliers looked strong in the first game, battling back twice to take the game by a final score of 5-3 behind a season-high seven-strikeout performance from senior pitcher Whitney Holstun.
"Offense sells tickets, but defense wins championships." This oft-used cliché rang true for the Virginia men's basketball team last night as its postseason run in the College Basketball Invitational?
The Virginia women's lacrosse team dropped a close decision Saturday in New Jersey against Princeton.
