Virginia ready to reach for ACC title
By Jesse Spears | April 14, 2006The Virginia men's tennis team will spend this weekend at Tobacco Road with their ACC title to defend.
The Virginia men's tennis team will spend this weekend at Tobacco Road with their ACC title to defend.
The Virginia softball team pulled out two important wins Wednesday over James Madison, sweeping the Dukes in an afternoon doubleheader. The first win rode largely on the strength of Erin Horn, who virtually single-handedly shut down the Dukes' offense.
The No. 17 Virginia baseball team outlasted the Longwood Lancers Wednesday, 6-4. The Cavaliers scored two runs in the eighth inning to win a game in which both starting pitchers lasted six innings and reach a record of 28-9. Virginia's lineup ran Longwood starter Brian McCullough's pitch total up to 118 over six and two-thirds innings.
One of the biggest perks of being a student fan at U.Va. is the free admission to all Virginia sporting events.
After grabbing the biggest win in program history last weekend, the Virginia women's tennis team will look to continue its winning ways today against Boston College.
The Virginia women's lacrosse team celebrated Senior Night Wednesday evening with a 13-9 victory over the George Mason Patriots (7-5) at Klöckner Stadium. The night began with a commemoration of the team's seven seniors, and the excitement continued into the start of the game as the No.
Virginia baseball coach Brian O'Connor has a special request for Virginia's student body: Show up and be rowdy this weekend at Davenport Field when the Cavaliers take on Boston College in a critically important three-game series.
After capping off a grueling stretch of seven straight road games with a pair of wins in Durham this past weekend, the Virginia men's baseball team returns home this evening to face the visiting Longwood Lancers at Davenport Field. During the extended road trip, the No.
The Virginia softball team (20-17) hosts James Madison (16-17) today for a doubleheader starting at 3 p.m.
Returning to play after a week off, the No. 5 Virginia women's lacrosse team will face off with the George Mason Patriots in their final regular season home game Wednesday. The Patriots will attempt to pull out their first-ever win against the Cavaliers in the teams' short history together. The Cavaliers (11-2, 3-1) are riding the strength of a five-game win streak, including their 15-8 victory over Old Dominion last Wednesday, prior to the week off.
Recently, I've found myself staying up late watching several classic baseball movies -- "The Natural," "Field of Dreams," "The Sandlot" -- and I've come to realize the 12-year-old inside of me just won't let my obsession with baseball go.
This past weekend at the Masters, Phil Mickelson once again captured the heart of the country with a magnificent victory.
Being a first year coach is usually a difficult thing to do -- just ask Virginia women's tennis coach Mark Guilbeau.
This weekend, the Virginia men's rugby team will play their final matches at the third Annual Chris "Blumpkin" Ball Tournament, a "friendly" competition in Harrisonburg, Va. Their season is coming to a close because the team narrowly missed qualifying for the Sweet Sixteen, the national rugby tournament.
"It's not always what happens in a situation but how you react to it," senior defender Michael Culver said. Those words rang true for Culver and his teammates two years ago when the University of Virginia men's lacrosse team had one of its worst seasons in recent memory.
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The Virginia softball team split its doubleheader with Florida State this weekend. Virginia (20-17, 3-8 ACC) claimed the first game in a 1-0 shutout, but Florida State (30-19, 6-5 ACC) rallied to win the second game, 8-5. The two teams were originally slated to play three games over the weekend, but rain Saturday forced the series to be cut to two, which were both played on Sunday. In the opener, junior leadoff hitter Elea Crockett singled in the first inning for the Cavaliers.
Amid rain and unseasonable temperatures, a good number of fans and the University pep band, the Virginia women's rowing competed against Michigan State early Saturday morning. Unfortunately for the Cavaliers, Rivanna Reservoir did not seem to provide much of a home-court advantage.
The sun shone on the No. 8 Virginia men's tennis team yesterday, as the team played its last home match of the regular season, defeating No.
The wet conditions could not cool off a red-hot offense as the No. 1 Virginia men's lacrosse team (11-0) defeated the North Carolina Tar Heels (2-9), 21-13.