Spring Sports Update - April 20, 2008
A couple more things happened today to finish off the weekend, so I thought I'd go ahead and post about them.
- The #1 ranked (and #1 seeded) Men's Tennis team whooped Miami today 4-0 to claim the 2008 ACC Championship. This is the second ACC Championship in a row for the Cavaliers and the 4th in five years. Treat Huey was named MVP of the tournament. Now we have to wait about a week and a half to see what the first round of the NCAA Tournament will look like, but it's pretty much a sure thing that we'll be hosting the first round (4 teams in single-elimination competition).
- The #16 ranked Baseball team got a painful dose of defeat yesterday, losing to Wake Forest 14-3. Thankfully, they turned things around in the rubber match today and beat the Demon Deacons 3-2 in 11 innings to take the series win. Hopefully the pollsters and the NCAA folks only look at that series win and not the score of that second game...
- The #21 ranked Women's Golf team looked like they might be able to pull off an upset this weekend at the ACC Championships but they fell just short. The lady Hoos had been in first place pretty much the entire weekend (at one point holding the top 3 individual scores) but #1 Duke came back and beat them by 1 stroke. It would have been a huge win for the Cavaliers as Duke has now won 13 consecutive ACC titles, but it was an impressive showing nonetheless.
- As I mentioned in the previous post, the #4 ranked Women's Lacrosse team had to wait for things to get sorted out in the standings to solidify who and when they would be playing in the ACC Tournament next weekend. Well, now it's official. The Cavaliers have the #2 seed in the tournament and play their first game at 3pm on Friday. Their opponent will be the winner of the Duke/Virginia Tech game which will be held Thursday at 1pm. All of these games are being played at Scott Stadium, while the men's tournament is being played at Klockner.