UVa. baseball to begin postseason ticket sales
On Tuesday, May 15, ticket books for potential NCAA Baseball Regional and Super Regional tournaments at Davenport Field go on sale at 9 a.m. through the Virginia Athletics Ticket Office. Regional all-session ticket books are sold for $60 for reserved seating and $45 for general admission seating, while Super Regional all-session ticket books are $36 for reserved seating and $24 for general admission seating.
Ticket books may be purchased in person at the Virginia Athletics Ticket Office in Bryant Hall or by calling the ticket office at (800) 542-8821 or visiting VirginiaSports.com. Read more
UVa. to face Wisconsin in ACC/Big Ten Challenge
The Virginia men’s basketball team will play at Wisconsin on Nov. 28 in the 14th ACC/Big Ten Challenge.
The game will be the first meeting between Virginia and Wisconsin in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge and the third meeting overall. The teams split the two previous meetings.
The teams have not met since the 1999 Top of the World Classic in Fairbanks, Alaska, when Wisconsin defeated the Cavaliers 66-56. The only other meeting between the two teams came in the Milwaukee Classic during the 1974-75 season when Virginia won 86-78 in Milwaukee, Wisc. Read more
#8 UVa. nips #12 Princeton in NCAAs
A fourth quarter goal from Chris Bocklet via Steele Stanwick proved to be the difference as the No. 8 Virginia Cavaliers (12-3) outlasted the No. 12 Princeton Tigers (11-5) on Sunday afternoon during the NCAA First Round, 6-5, inside Klöckner Stadium.
The six goals by UVa is the lowest number of scores for the Cavaliers in an NCAA win and the 11 total goals between the two teams tied for the fifth-fewest ever in an NCAA Tournament game, four other games are tied for first with 10 total goals. Six other NCAA Tournament games have featured 11 total goals, most recent the Syracuse vs. Maryland quarterfinal last season. Read more
UVa. women’s lax falls in NCAAs at Duke
The 10th-ranked Virginia women’s lacrosse team (11-8) ended its season with an 11-9 loss to sixth-ranked Duke in the first round of the NCAA Tournament Sunday at Koskinen Stadium. Sophomore Katie Slater (Kensington, Md.) matched her career high with four goals for the Cavaliers.
Freshman Morgan Stephens (Olney, Md.) registered a pair of goals while seniors Josie Owen (Gibson Island, Md.), Julie Gardner (Severna Park, Md.) and Ainsley Baker (Corning, N.Y.) also scored for Virginia. Read more
Georgia Tech rallies, knocks off #21 UVa. in finale
Zane Evans hit a solo home run in the 10th inning as Georgia Tech avoided a series sweep in a 5-4 win over the No. 21 Virginia baseball team Sunday afternoon on Senior Day at Davenport Field.
Despite seeing its 10-game winning streak come to a halt, Virginia (34-15-1, 16-11 ACC) took two of three games in the series for its third-consecutive ACC series win. Read more
#21 UVa. makes it two in a row against Georgia Tech
The No. 21 Virginia baseball team won its 10th-consecutive game Saturday, downing Georgia Tech, 4-2, at Davenport Field. Virginia (34-14-1, 16-10 ACC) won its seventh-straight ACC contest and clinched its third-consecutive ACC series victory.
Pitching ruled the day on both sides, with each team finishing with just six hits. Virginia’s bullpen tossed five scoreless innings and ran its ACC scoreless innings streak to 37.2 straight innings. Read more
#21 Cavs dig long ball, nip Jackets
Brandon Downes (Fr., South Plainfield, N.J.) singled home Jared King (R-Jr., Radford, Va.) with one out in the eighth inning to lift the No. 21 Virginia baseball team to a 6-5 win over Georgia Tech Friday night in the opener of a three-game series at Davenport Field. Virginia (33-14-1, 15-10 ACC) notched its ninth-consecutive win, including its sixth straight in ACC play, and in doing so clinched a berth in the 2012 ACC Baseball Championship, slated for May 23-27 in Greensboro, N.C.
Half of Virginia’s eight hits came via home runs. The Cavaliers’ four home runs were most by a Virginia team since May 1, 2010, when UVa hit four at Duke, and it was the most home runs by the Cavaliers at Davenport Field since March 3, 2002, when UVa hit four against Seton Hall. Read more
