Unfortunately for the Virginia lacrosse team, Saturday was Hopkins freshman Kevin Huntley's day to catch the banana. Thrown by a group of Blue Jay alumni to the player they believe had the best game, the tossing of the symbolic fruit capped a disappointing day for the visiting Cavaliers, who fell to No.
Dressed from head to toe in Hopkins blue, number 17 for the home-team drove hard to the cage and, with one swift move, sped past three defenders and fired home a goal.
The Virginia men's tennis team's perfect ACC record remained untarnished this weekend, as the Cavaliers (16-2, 4-0 ACC) notched a 6-1 victory over the No.
I'm trying to move on. Really, I am. It's been over two weeks since Athletic Director Craig Littlepage called Pete Gillen "the classiest person in the coaching profession" and then just seconds later talked about how he is "very excited about the opportunities that lie ahead" without him, officially marking the departure of the Sultan of Sweat.
The University rowing team opens its 2005 spring season Saturday at the ACC/Big 10 Challenge. The regatta will be held on the Griggs Reservoir in Columbus, Ohio. The Cavaliers will join conference foe Duke against non-conference opponents Michigan and Ohio State. Virginia enters the regatta ranked sixth in the preseason USRowing/Collegiate Rowing Coaches Poll.
It wasn't supposed to be like this for Mike Mitchell. Before he played a single game in aVirginia uniform, his rookie coach raved about the ground No.
Sometimes high expectations can be daunting. Beginning the season ranked tenth in the nation, the Virginia men's tennis team was expected to achieve a certain level of performance.
It may not have the history of Yankees-Red Sox or Lakers-Celtics, but over the last decade the heated women's lacrosse rivalry between Virginia and Princeton has been almost as intense. In 1993, the Cavaliers downed the Tigers 8-6 in overtime to win their second national title in three years and deny Princeton its first.
The Virginia softball team fell to No. 4 Tennessee 10-0 yesterday at the Park. It was this season's first game against a ranked opponent for Virginia. The Cavaliers were outplayed by the Volunteers both offensively and defensively.
After the dust settles in Baltimore Saturday afternoon, the men's lacrosse world will have crowned a definitive front-runner. In a clash of two national titans, the second-ranked Virginia Cavaliers will make the 150-mile journey north to take on No.
Nobody who wears the blue and orange sabers at the University of Virginia wants to lose to the Hokies of Virginia Tech.
There are two ways to look at Virginia's home softball game today at 3 p.m. at The Park against nationally-ranked Tennessee (no.
March Madness has reached the Sweet Sixteen, so that means one thing for most people's brackets: They're busted. By this point, we're left rooting for all underdogs because we have no chance of winning our bracket while a girl who did not watch a single game all year is winning after making her picks based on mascots. While putting the Tubby Smith and Marc Iavaroni rumors on hold for this weekend (and believe me, I could write about this every week), here's one updated look at who will be in St.
There is no place like home for the Virginia baseball team. The Cavaliers (17-6) have an exceptional 15-1 record within the confines of Davenport Field but have a more pedestrian 5-3 record away from Charlottesville.
The physical preparation is there, and the proof is a 10-1 regular season record, an undefeated 5-0 conference record and an ACC title.
Due to the forecast for inclement weather today and tomorrow in Virginia, the Cavaliers' doubleheader originally scheduled today at Radford has been postponed.
Virginia's track and field squad started its season strong, winning three events at the Charlotte 49er Invitational.
If this column seems at all disjointed, let's just pretend I'm recovering from a blindside pick by Janel McCarville. Like many other sports fans, I watched a sick amount of college basketball this weekend, and several things stuck out to me besides McCarville's pick on Latonya Blue -- which I'll discuss last, in an attempt to give my column some chronological structure, as it occurred Thursday night. The first major shocker of the week had to be Vermont's win over Syracuse Friday night, particularly for those of us who had the Orange in their Final Four.
The University of Virginia men's tennis team already had sealed up Sunday's victory over the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets, but Rylan Rizza was not ready to call it a day quite yet. The energetic junior defeated Tech's David North in a grueling 7-5, 4-6, 7-6 (6) match to finish off the win for the Cavaliers. "The team already got the job done," Rizza said.
With a rematch of last year's championship game on the horizon, the Virginia women's lacrosse team knew it had to take care of business against in-state rival William & Mary last night.
