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Virginia is headed back to the College World Series next week in Omaha, as the No. 7 seed Cavaliers picked up where they left off Saturday in a convincing, 12-2 victory in Sunday’s Charlottesville Super Regional rubber match against Duke.
In a little over a week, Virginia baseball alumni Andrew Abbott has been called up from Triple-A baseball to the major leagues, won his first two MLB starts, and allowed zero runs over 11.2 innings pitched.
Virginia golfers Ben James and Amanda Sambach helped the Team USA reclaim the Arnold Palmer Cup during a three-day competition that concluded Saturday at Laurel Valley Golf Club.
Jake Gelof nearly won Friday’s opening game of the Charlottesville Super Regional with his long blast to the outfield wall. The ball was mere inches from becoming a walk-off home run under crucial circumstances.
Connelly Early’s pitch count was climbing by the sixth inning of Saturday’s game when Duke and the Blue Devils were trying to fight their way back into the game, trailing host Virginia 10-3.
The Virginia bats came alive with the season on the line Saturday at Disharoon Park, as the Cavaliers cranked out 14 runs on 14 hits — highlighted by a record-breaking day from junior third baseman Jake Gelof — and lived to fight another day.
Kon Knueppel, ranked the No. 16 player in the country by On3, is looking at Virginia, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Louisville, Marquette and Wisconsin.
Had Friday’s opener of the NCAA Super Regional been played in Hollywood rather than Charlottesville, no doubt Jake Gelof would have been the hero.
With two outs and the winning run aboard in the bottom of the ninth inning of Game One of the best-of-three NCAA Super Regional against Duke, Virginia junior power-hitting third baseman Jake Gelof stepped into the batter’s box.
Margot Appleton opened competition for the Virginia women’s track and field program at the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships Thursday, as the ACC Champion booked her place in the NCAA final on Saturday.
With Duke coming to Virginia this weekend for a rematch of a late-April series, Cavalier fans are hoping their heroes can avenge one of the only two home ACC series UVA suffered this season.
Virginia basketball has made the cut for one of the top forwards in the D.C. area, as Caleb Williams announced his final seven schools on Thursday.
The Virginia men’s track and field team opened competition at the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Austin Wednesday, where Ethan Dabbs won silver in the men’s javelin for the second consecutive season.
Of the 16 hosts of NCAA Baseball regionals last weekend, Virginia finished seventh in total attendance and first among all four ACC host sites.
Jaylin Lackey, a 6-foot, 185-pound cornerback from South Gwinnett High in Snellville, Ga., announced his commitment on Twitter.
The Virginia men’s and women’s track and field teams are set to send nine individual athletes (five men, four women) to the NCAA Track & Field Championships in Austin, Texas.
Chase Morrison made it official on Wednesday when he announced his commitment to the Cavaliers on his Twitter account, making him Virginia’s third commitment in three days
Christian Zachary, a 6-foot-3, 190-pound wide receiver from Saint Matthews, S.C. (Calhoun County HS), announced his commitment on his Twitter account Tuesday after making an official visit to Virginia in a big recruiting weekend for the Wahoos.
Ron Sanchez had a difficult decision in front of him: remain head coach at Charlotte, where he had coached the 49ers for five years, or accept an offer from Virginia’s Tony Bennett to come back to Charlottesville.
Tickets to this weekend’s Charlottesville Super Regional are officially sold out. Virginia, the No. 7 overall seed in the NCAA Tournament, will host Duke in a best-of-three series at Disharoon Park.