Inglot and Shabaz Win Doubles Title
Monday, May 25 2009 by Tim - 0 comments
Just a quick heads up – earlier this afternoon the Virginia doubles pair of senior Dominic Inglot and sophomore Michael Shabaz won the NCAA Doubles Championship. The unseeded pair, having already upset the #1 seed , took out the #2 seed in three sets. Aside from the obvious good things about this (an individual national title is always a good thing), there’s some other interesting points. This marks the third consecutive individual tennis title Virginia has brought home. This is also the first NCAA doubles title for any team from the ACC (Virginia seems to be breaking all sorts of ACC records of...
Tennis Players Advance to Semifinals
Sunday, May 24 2009 by Tim - 1 comments
The Virginia men’s tennis team may have dropped out of the NCAA Tournament earlier than expected this year (they fell 0-4 to USC last weekend) but a few of the Cavalier players are making waves in the singles and doubles tournaments. On Thursday, the unseeded doubles team of Dominic Inglot and Michael Shabaz defeated the #1 seeded from Ole Miss. They followed that up with a straight-sets win over the team from Texas Tech on Friday. Yesterday, they defeated another seeded team, the #5-8 team from Pepperdine. Inglot and Shabaz will face familiar foes Clay Donato and Taylor Fogleman of North Carolina...
Quick Lacrosse Update
Sunday, May 10 2009 by Tim - 0 comments
The Virginia Men’s Lacrosse team hosts Villanova at 2:30pm today in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. It’s the second of four games today, with Maryland traveling to Notre Dame for the noon game and UMass/Princeton and Siena/Syracuse battling later in the evening (5pm and 7:30pm respectively). The other four first round games were held yesterday. I was able to watch a good part of the Hopkins/Brown game, which was good since Virginia faces the winner if they get past Villanova today. Hopkins defeated Brown 12-11 in overtime in the first game yesterday in what turned out to be the only real...
Men’s Tennis Advances to Sweet Sixteen
Saturday, May 09 2009 by Tim - 1 comments
The Virginia Men’s Tennis team defeated ACC foe North Carolina 4-0 this afternoon at the sun-drenched Snyder Tennis Center. The Cavaliers started off slow in both doubles and singles but managed to absolutely dominate the visiting Tar Heels. So strong was Virginia that after they fell at #1 doubles, they didn’t drop a single set the rest of the afternoon. Virginia’s #1 doubles team of Dominic Inglot and Michael Shabaz fell behind quickly to the Carolina team of Taylor Fogleman and Clay Donato and were not able to fully recover as they fell 3-8. The pair just never seemed to get into a rhythm. Luckily...
A Chance at Redemption?
Friday, May 08 2009 by Tim - 1 comments
About three hours from now the Virginia Men’s Tennis team will begin the final stage of its quest for an NCAA Championship. They host Navy in the first round of the NCAA tournament at 1pm at the Snyder Tennis Courts, a little over a mile from where I sit right now. They’re the #1 team in the country. They’re the #1 seed in the tournament. They’re the only undefeated team in the nation. They’re the three-time defending ACC Champions. The only thing missing? A national title. A year ago today, the Cavaliers were in much the same situation. They were #1 in the country. They were the #1 seed. They...
Boland ACC Coach of the Year, Four Make All-ACC Team
Thursday, April 16 2009 by Tim - 0 comments
I’m not going to be able to recap the dominance any better than the ACC’s own article did, so I’ll just quote it: Top-ranked Virginia, which just completed a third straight unbeaten regular season against Atlantic Coast Conference opposition, placed four student-athletes on the 2009 Atlantic Coast Conference Men’s Team announced today by the league office. … The Cavaliers, who seek their third straight title and fifth in six seasons as the 2009 ACC Championships get under way today in Cary, N.C., led all schools with their four selections to the 18-member squad. … Boland’s Cavaliers have led the...
M Tennis Wins ITA National Team Indoors
Monday, February 16 2009 by Tim - 0 comments
Just a quick heads up, the #5 Virginia Men’s Tennis team just defeated their bitter rival, #3 Georgia, to win the ITA National Team Indoors title for the second consecutive year. All told, they defeated #12 Tulsa, #4 UCLA, #8 Tennessee and #3 Georgia (as well as #45 Arkansas and #39 East Tennessee State in the qualifiers) along the way, dropping a total of 4 points in 6 matches. Congratulations to Brian Boland and the Virginia Men’s Tennis Team!#5 M Tennis Advances to ITA Indoors Finals
Sunday, February 15 2009 by Tim - 0 comments
Just a couple of minutes ago, the Virginia Men’s Tennis team, ranked #5 in the country, defeated Tennessee to advance to the finals of the 2009 ITA National Team Indoors. U.Va. is the defending ITA Indoors champion and has put together an impressive run through the tournament thus far. They defeated #12 Tulsa in the first round on Friday, blanking them 4-0. They followed that up with a hard-fought 4-3 win over #4 UCLA. Today they scored another shut out victory, taking down #8 Tennessee 4-0. The Hoos meet #3 Georgia tomorrow at noon to finish the defense of their title. For those that haven’t been...
M Tennis Defeats Arkansas in ITA Indoor Qualifier
Saturday, January 31 2009 by Tim - 0 comments
Facing its third top-50 team of the season, the #5 Virginia Men’s Tennis team scored a perfect victory – also their third of the season. The Cavaliers, who previously blanked #64 William & Mary and #30 Notre Dame along with a 6-1 win over #15 Illinois, defeated #45 Arkansas 7-0 in the first ITA National Indoors Qualifier at the Boar’s Head Sports Club yesterday. In the doubles point, the No. 1 match was a big one, pitting the #3 pair in the country (Virginia’s Sanam Singh and Houston Barrick) against the #15 pair (Blake Strode and Matt Hogan). Singh and Barrick took the win 8-4. Virginia’s...
Somdev’s Streak Ends
Saturday, August 02 2008 by Tim - 0 comments
It had to end sometime. Somdev’s impressive streak of consecutive wins finally came to an end today as he lost to the 6-seed and 124th ranked Go Soeda of Japan in straight sets 6-4, 7-6. Even with the loss, he still picks up 16 points and several thousand dollars in prize money. Currently ranked #345 in the world, the extra points will probably bump him up 20-30 spots.