Spring Sports Update - April 19, 2008
Just a couple of quick comments on what's been going on so far this weekend in U.Va. spring sports:
- Yesterday at a painfully early 9am match, the #1 ranked (and #1 seeded) Men's Tennis team defeated #50 (and #8 seeded) North Carolina State by a 4-1 margin in the quarter-finals of the ACC Tournament. They had just defeated NCSU the Friday before by a score of 5-2.
- In a much more reasonably-timed outing, the #16 ranked Baseball team defeated Wake Forest 4-2 in a night game at Davenport Field. They've got another night game coming up tonight in less than 3 hours.
- This morning, the Men's Tennis team continued our domination of the Demon Deacons from Winston Salem, defeating #28 ranked and #4 seeded Wake 4-1 in the semi-finals of the ACC Tournament. Once again, this is a team they had played just the previous weekend, rocking them 7-0 last Sunday. The still-undefeated Hoos take on the winner of the the 3/7 match between #10 FSU and #25 Miami. Miami took the doubles point but is losing in most of the singles matches so far.
- In a beautiful spring time match-up at Klockner, the #4 ranked Men's Lacrosse team defeated Dartmouth 11-7. The game was relatively uneventful, but probably the biggest thing we saw was that Bud Petit was back from his injury he sustained against Duke and had several good stops including a couple right on the doorstep against the player that is supposedly Dartmouth's best finisher. That's promising going into the ACC Tournament (next weekend in Charlottesville; the first game is against Maryland Friday night at 7:30 at Klockner).
- The #4 Women's Lacrosse team finished their season during the week, downing #12 George Mason 16-3. U.Va. scored the first 14 goals of the game, holding Mason scoreless until 17:52 remained in the 2nd period (over 42 minutes of perfect defense). That game finished a perfect home season for the ladies. I'm not positive on their position in the ACC Tournament next weekend (also in Charlottesville, but the games will be played at Scott Stadium). I think that they'll be the #2 seed (same record as Maryland, but the Terps beat them during the regular season) and play the winner of the Duke/VT game (which will probably be Duke since VT has not won in the ACC yet this season). We should be playing in the 5:30 game Friday night at Scott. I'll post a bit more once things are really finalized.
- The #3 ranked Women's Rowing team achieved a major feat this weekend. They won the 9th consecutive ACC Championship in rowing, having won every year that the event has existed. Kevin Sauer, head coach of the team was named ACC Coach of the Year for the 5th time and the Varsity 8 crew was named ACC Crew of the Year. Virginia won 3 of the 4 competitions, winning the First Varsity 8, Second Varsity 8 and First Varsity 4 while coming in second in the Novice 8. Clemson finished 2nd in the 3 races that Virginia won, while winning the one race Virginia did not win. The ladies still have another set of races against Yale and Harvard before heading to the South/Central regionals of the NCAAs in mid-May.