Virginia Tops Cornell in Face-Off Classic

Saturday, March 12 2011 by Tim - 0 comments

Just in case you didn’t follow the live game reports that Tiki had going on our site , I’ll let you know that #2 Virginia beat #14 Cornell 11-9 at the Face-Off Classic in Baltimore earlier today. Virginia actually trailed for much of the game. Cornell led 3-2 after the first quarter and and 5-4 at the half. Virginia turned it around and outscored Cornell 3-4 in the third quarter and 4-2 in the fourth. One big positive for Virginia was the face-offs. Virginia either won the faceoff stat or was even in each of the first three quarters before Cornell won the fourth. Overall, Virginia led that statistics...

Men’s Lacrosse Defeats Mount St. Mary’s 18-4

Sunday, May 16 2010 by Tim - 0 comments

I won’t do much of a recap of this. It   is being covered enough as it is . Seriously. It’d be nice if we got that much coverage just because we’re, you know, the best team in the country. Anyway, I’ll just show a couple of breakdowns about the game and let the domination soak into your brain at its own pace. After the first quarter, Virginia led 5-0. At the half, the Cavaliers led 12-1. After three periods, it was 16-2. At that point, basically all of Virginia’s starters were already out of the game, including goalie Adam Ghitelman, who had a terrific game in the cage. Here’s how the Virginia...

Hoos Exorcise Devils

Friday, April 23 2010 by Tiki - 2 comments

About 3 hours ago, there wasn’t a single player on the Virginia roster who had ever beaten Duke.  That is no longer the case.  After Duke took an early 4-0 lead, it looked like the streak would continue.  Through 10 minutes, the Hoos were struggling in just about every facet of the game, and the Blue Devils were taking advantage.  I’m not sure exactly what happened at about the 5 minute mark of the first period, but the Hoos woke up.  Matt White scored, and the Hoos added 3 more (including another from White), to end the period tied at 4.  The second period was fairly...

Thoughts From a Lacrosse Weekend

Sunday, April 04 2010 by Tim - 0 comments

I did something this weekend that I’ve never done before: I traveled to another state for the specific purpose of watching a collegiate sporting event that The University of Virginia was not involved in. I traveled to Baltimore yesterday to watch #2 North Carolina try to stay undefeated against Johns Hopkins. After traveling back to Virginia for a few hours, I then went back to our northern neighbor – this time College Park – to watch #1 Virginia also try to stay undefeated against #4 Maryland. Both undefeated teams stayed that way, but it wasn’t a picture perfect lacrosse day by any stretch. What...

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...

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.

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...