Men’s Lacrosse: #1 Syracuse at #2 Virginia
Sunday, March 07 2010 by Tim - 0 comments
Just wanted to toss a quick note out about this game. It’s a beautiful day in The Hook and everyone should want to come down/up/over and spend their afternoon at Klockner watching the two best teams in the nation face off. If the weather wasn’t a big enough draw for you by itself, check out this article from ESPN . Hard not to support a team with stories like that. I think the article forgets to mention that they’re some damn good Lacrosse players too ;)Cornell Rolls Over Cavaliers
Saturday, May 23 2009 by Tim - 0 comments
The #1 seeded Virginia Cavaliers suffered a crushing defeat in the semi-finals of the NCAA Tournament today in Foxboro, Massachusetts. The Cornell Big Red beat them in just about every category. A 15 minute difference in time of possession was indicative of the problem. The final score of 15-6 WAS the problem. I don’t have much to say about this game and since it’s the end of the season, there’s nothing to say going forward until next season. The Virginia team I saw on TV today was the same team I saw play down in Durham back in the regular season. Weak defense. Very weak defense in front of the...
Cavaliers Dismantle Blue Jays
Monday, May 18 2009 by Tim - 1 comments
Two minutes and seven seconds into the first NCAA Quarterfinals game in Annapolis, Johns Hopkins was already celebrating. Michael Kimmel had fed Brian Christopher for a nice shot that whizzed past Virginia goalie Adam Ghitelman and found the back of the cage. The stands, filled primarily with Hopkins fans who had made the short trip down from Baltimore, erupted. The Virginia fans – quite a good showing for them as well, frankly – looked around cautiously at each other and the Hopkins fans. A rather inauspicious start for them, no doubt. Another five minutes ran off the clock with both teams trading...
Men’s Lacrosse Pummels Villanova
Monday, May 11 2009 by Tim - 2 comments
Four minutes into the first-round NCAA game at Klockner Stadium yesterday, the scoreboard still read 0-0. One of those goose eggs would disappear very quickly, while the other would remain for another 48 minutes. Virginia found itself leading the Villanova Wildcats 9-0 at the end of the first quarter, 15-0 at halftime and 18-0 entering the 4th quarter. While the final score of 18-6 makes the game look infinitely closer than it really was, Villanova just never knew what hit them. And boy did it hit them. Repeatedly. Seven different players scored for Virginia in an offensive explosion that was much...
The Luck of the Draw?
Thursday, May 07 2009 by Tim - 0 comments
I spent all day Sunday pondering which school the Virginia Men’s Lacrosse team would face in the first round of the 2009 NCAA Championships. It was a foregone conclusion that the Cavaliers would be a top eight seed and would thus host the first round. The question of where they would fit in those eight seeds and who they would host was anything but a foregone conclusion. A Navy fan in my office was convinced that Virginia would end up hosting Navy, a matchup he felt quite comfortable with. Virginia Head Coach Dom Starsia had said on the radio the previous week that he thought Loyola was a team...
M Lax Wins Epic Battle Against Maryland
Saturday, March 28 2009 by Tim - 3 comments
The #1 Virginia Men’s Lacrosse team played what may have been its most inconsistent, least productive 55 minutes of the season to start the game against #9 Maryland. With five minutes remaining in the game, the Cavaliers trailed the Terrapins by what was starting to look like a very daunting 6-9 margin. The Cavaliers had thrown the ball away what seemed like dozens of times. They had dropped the ball too easily when pressured even slightly by the Terrapin defenders. Goalie Adam Ghitelman had looked shaky at best. What followed was something that no one – in the stands or in all of lacrosse fandom...
Lacrosse: Virginia Sweeps Syracuse
Friday, February 27 2009 by Tim - 0 comments
Moments ago, the #2 Virginia Men’s Lacrosse team survived a furious Syracuse rally to upset the #1 team in the country on their own turf 13-12. Add that to the #4 Virginia Women’s team’s upset of #2 Syracuse earlier in the day on the same turf and you’ve got yourself one very solid day of lacrosse for Wahoos everywhere. Up next for the men is a match @ VMI on Tuesday. For the women, they host Maryland next Friday.Lacrosse: Virginia at Syracuse
Friday, February 27 2009 by Tim - 0 comments
If you’re a lacrosse fan, the place to be this evening is in Syracuse, NY at the Carrier Dome. There will be two lacrosse matches feature some of the best lacrosse in the nation. In the first match, starting in just a couple minutes at 4pm, the #2 Syracuse Women’s Lacrosse team hosts the #4 Virginia Women’s Lacrosse team. At 7pm, the men’s teams will take the field as the #1 Orange host the #1 Cavaliers. What’s what, you say? Two number one teams? Syracuse is ranked #1 in the USILA poll, which I guess is the one that most people use. Virginia, however is ranked #1 in the Nike/Inside Lacrosse poll...
W Lacrosse Beats Down Spiders
Friday, February 27 2009 by Tim - 0 comments
Wednesday was the first game this season that the Virginia Women’s Lacrosse team DIDN’T score 19 points. They ONLY scored 16 points. What were they thinking?!? This game wasn’t as much of a beat down as the game against Virginia Tech was, but it was still a dominating performance, winning 16-7 over the visiting Richmond. Blair Weymouth had five goals, Ashley McCulloch added three goals and three assists and Jenny Hauser had a solid game with two goals and three assists. Richmond kept it close in the beginning, scoring three goals to Virginia’s first five. But for the last half of the first half...
M Lacrosse Defeats The Mount
Friday, February 27 2009 by Tim - 0 comments
I’m a little late in getting this up here, but on Tuesday evening, the Virginia Men’s Lacrosse team defeated Mount St. Mary’s by a score of 10-2. The game was a little more low scoring than I had expected (though this team has still yet to score fewer than 10 goals in a game), but it was a pretty dominating performance nonetheless. The Mount was held scoreless through the first 46 minutes of play, not finding the net until a minute or so into the fourth quarter. You can find the official stats of the game here . Here’s a few shots I took at the game, and as usual the rest are in the photo gallery...