COLLEGE PARK, Md.-The Virginia field hockey team survived a furious onslaught and disastrous late goal by Duke yesterday to beat the Blue Devils in overtime, 2-1, in the first round of the ACC Tournament in College Park, Md. The fourth-seeded Cavaliers (13-6) continue play today when they face off against top seed North Carolina, ranked No.
For the first time, the outcome of the women's soccer ACC Tournament is not quite predictable. There were so many surprise last-minute wins and losses over the course of the regular season, and the teams are so evenly matched that four tied for second place in the conference.
Last weekend, the Virginia field hockey team ended its regular season with a bang. The Cavaliers notched two hard-fought victories on the road in an overtime win against Duke and a come-from-behind triumph against Yale. But things are far from over. In fact, the Cavaliers have completed only one piece of a three-part puzzle, according to coach Jessica Wilk. "The entire season is actually three different seasons," she said, "the regular season, the ACC Tournament, and the NCAA Tournament.
The NBA's 2000-01 opening day rosters released Tuesday listed 56 players from Atlantic Coast Conference schools.
The Virginia women's basketball team came together to win its first exhibition game 79-69 over Athletes in Action, a Christian traveling basketball team, last night at University Hall. The Cavs were scoreless for the first four minutes of the game and allowed AIA to post a five-point lead, but Virginia senior forward Svetlana Volnaya hit a running jump shot to put her team on the board. But Virginia's first half woes were far from over.
The New York Yankees had their third straight ticker-tape parade Monday. When you weren't looking last week - and apparently you weren't, judging by the record-low television ratings - they won their fourth world championship in five years, the 26th in the storied history of the franchise. When can we dispense with the formality of the 2001 season and hand them a 27th? How can anyone beat them?
Pressure? What pressure? The only pressure preseason All-American candidate and All-ACC forward Svetlana Volnaya feels is the never-ending quest to better herself as a player. "I'm not trying to think about our rankings right now," Volnaya said.
The Virginia baseball team will have two new faces in the dugout this spring. Coach Dennis Womack named Chip Schaffner and Luis Giraldo as the two newest members of his coaching staff.
After losing 37-3 at Florida State, the Virginia football team rebounded with a 17-6 win against North Carolina Saturday.
Oh, how we love to rip Ronald Curry. He's our whipping boy, and when anything dares run amiss in our perfect little college lives, there's always ol' Benedict Curry to blame. C-minus on a midterm?
How important are the last three games of the season for the Virginia football team? Byron Thweatt can tell you. "This next stretch run is going to determine what is going to happen for this football team," said Thweatt, a senior linebacker.
If you listen to Debbie Ryan, it would be easy to believe the entire Virginia women's basketball team graduated with second team All-ACC point guard Renee Robinson last year.
The Virginia women's rowing team doubled its pleasure, capturing two competitions in Sunday's Princeton Chase.
Before last season, following the graduation of star center DeMya Walker, you could have predicted gloom and doom for the Virginia women's basketball team.
More than the words, the look on Mike O'Cain's face said it all. O'Cain, North Carolina's offensive coordinator, is as calm and tactful a coach as you'll find in college football.
When Virginia wins a swim race, the noise in the Aquatic & Fitness Center rivals the roar at Scott Stadium.
In as close a game as the Virginia women's soccer team has played this season, Alyssa Benitez scored with one minute, 23 seconds to go and beat No.
Numbers might not lie, but this time they're fibbing a bit. Saturday at Scott Stadium, North Carolina dominated the final stat sheet.
RALEIGH, N.C.-Senior captain Bob Thiele ran to an extraordinary second-place finish at the ACC cross country championships Saturday on N.C.
If shots counted as goals, yesterday's matchup between the No. 12 Virginia men's soccer team and unranked Providence would have been a blowout. Instead, the Cavaliers clung to a slim one-goal lead for much of the game and finished with a 2-0 shutout at Kl
