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ACC and Commonwealth National Championships
This list will probably need updating at the end of this year but this is pretty interesting stuff. Some surprising numbers in here. This is the list of all legitimate collegiate national championships won by ACC schools (in the first list) and Commonwealth...
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...
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...
ACC Men's Tennis Awards
Virginia captured two of the three individual awards and landed three players on the All-ACC team. Virginia's Somdev Devvarman, the #1 player in the country (and part of the #1 doubles team in the country) was named the ACC Player of the Year. Coach...
#1 U.Va. Men's Tennis Completes Undefeated Regular Season
Singh and Angelinos finished their games almost simultaneously to complete U.Va's emphatic 7-0 destruction of Wake Forest today at Snyder. The Cavaliers did not even drop a single set the entire match en route to putting the finishing touches on a...
Posted: Apr 13 2008, 04:25 PM by tlmii | with no comments
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Men Rally to Defeat Tar Heels
Wow, what a game. Too bad it was only on ESPN U. The U.Va. Men's Lacrosse team defeated UNC tonight 12-11 in overtime. The Cavaliers scored the games final four goals as they came back from an 8-11 deficit late in the 4th quarter. It seems like we...
Posted: Apr 05 2008, 06:54 PM by tlmii | with no comments
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Women Easily Defeat Boston College
The women's Lacrosse team easily handed Boston College their 2nd ACC loss of the season, 12-4. It was a nice day to sit in Klockner and watch UVA dominate.
Posted: Apr 05 2008, 03:37 PM by tlmii | with no comments
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Big Lacrosse Day
It's a big day today for the U.Va. Lacrosse teams. The women's team, currently ranked #4 in the country, defends Klockner stadium against ACC foe Boston College today at 1pm. The ladies currently sit in first place in the ACC, a half game ahead...
Posted: Apr 05 2008, 10:43 AM by tlmii | with no comments
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Friendly Reminder to Depressed Cavalier Fans: We're #1 (Twice!)
There's a lot of grief coming from people who are upset that the basketball season is finally over (and thus the "major") sports season is over for this school year. Well, I just wanted to drop a reminder that we have a lot going on in the...
End of an Era... Beginning of Another
I just got home from watching U.Va.'s painful loss to Bradley in the semi-finals of the CBI. I can't believe I just watched Sean's last collegiate game... doesn't feel right. At the same time, Sylven Landesberg is playing in the McDonald's...
Trouble Brewing in Norfolk
I think the folks on TheSabre 's Women's Basketball Board are about to go postal on the NCAA and the referees for today's game. The Hoos are down by 1 with just a couple minutes left. Hopefully they can pull it off in spite of everything else...
Posted: Mar 25 2008, 09:48 PM by tlmii | with no comments
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U.Va. Men's Lacrosse: #1 in the Nation
I mentioned in a previous post that the U.Va. Men's Lacrosse team should be #1 in the country this week when the polls came out. I was so busy yesterday that I forgot to point out that, as expected, we were. The USILA poll actually made us the unanimous...
Posted: Mar 25 2008, 03:37 PM by tlmii | with no comments
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Singletary: Simply Sensational
I've been incredibly busy all morning so I didn't get to blog about the win last night. But here it is. Sean Singletary scored 8 points in a span of about 26 seconds last night to take the Cavaliers from a 4 point deficit (70-74) to a 3 point...
Lady Hoos Win Big, Set Up Double-Header With ODU
The 4-seeded Women's Basketball team crushed UCSB late last night, 86-52. The win in the first round of the Women's NCAA Tournament sets up a match-up with the 5 seed, ODU who beat Liberty earlier in the day. There was a similar margin in that...
Posted: Mar 24 2008, 11:09 AM by tlmii | with no comments
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#2 U.Va. Remains Undefeated With Win Over Johns Hopkins
It took overtime to do it, but the #2 U.Va. Men's Lacrosse team all but assured themselves the #1 ranking when the polls come out on Monday by defeating Johns Hopkins 13-12 today in front of a record crowd at Klockner Stadium. The game remained close...
Posted: Mar 22 2008, 07:38 PM by tlmii | with 1 comment(s)
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