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Via UVa Sports Information

The Virginia women’s lacrosse team will face George Mason in a key in-state game up in Fairfax on Tuesday, April 17. Opening draw is slated for 7:05 pm at George Mason Stadium. The Cavaliers (11-3) have gone 5-0 against teams from the Commonwealth in 2007 and the contest against the Patriots (5-7) will be the final non-conference game of the regular season for Virginia. The game will be televised on Verizon FiOS1. FiOS is Verizon’s Fiber Optic television service currently available in 10 states, including Virginia.

Virginia has an 8-0 lead in the series against the Patriots, one that started in 1999 and has continued each year since. In 2001 the Cavaliers’ game against Mason was the 400th in Virginia history; in 2003 Lauren Aumiller tied the Virginia record with seven assists in the 15-8 win over the Patriots.
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Virginia Men (10-2)
Nike/Inside Lacrosse Media Poll: #4 (16 April 2007 - last week, #2, 1 vote)
USLIA Coaches Poll: #4 (16 April 2007 - last week, #3)
LaxPower Computer Ranking: #7 (16 April 2007 - last week, #7)

Season High: #1 (Preseason Coaches & Media polls)
Season Low: #18 (Computer Ranking: 5 March 2007)

Virginia Women (10-3)
Inside Lacrosse Media Poll: #7 (16 April 2007 - last week, #5)
IWLCA Coaches Poll: #7 (17 April 2007 - last week, #5)
LaxPower Computer Ranking: #6 (16 April 2007 - last week, #5)

Season High: #3 (Computer Ranking & Coaches poll)
Season Low: #18 (Preseason Coaches poll)

The Blue Ridge Lacrosse Club is a girls developmental lacrosse program based in Charlottesville, with a goal of improving the level of instruction and exposure for female lacrosse players. The Club consists of three teams: a middle school team (rising 5th-8th graders), and two high school teams (rising 9th/10th graders and rising 11th/12th graders).

Team selections for the Blue Ridge summer season will be held at Western Albemarle High School on May 12th for the middle schoolers and May 12th & 13th for the high schoolers.

The middle school team selections are from 10am-11:30pm and rising 4th-8th graders are eligible to play. ALL players will be placed on a team! Registration is from 9:30-10am and players must bring their US Lacrosse membership number to register. Memberships can be attained at www.uslacrosse.org. Directly after team selections from 11:40-12pm, there will be a parent/player informational meeting where the coaches will hand out and review the schedule and tournaments and answer questions. Club fees are due at this time and are $160.00.
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Via UVa Sports Information; additional reporting: cville-lax.com

One of the most highly-anticipated lacrosse games of the season had a storybook ending. Unfortunately for the Virginia Cavaliers, the storybook was all about the team from Durham.

A national television audience and 6,588 fans at Koskinen Stadium saw Duke, despite trailing for virtually the entire game, claw their way back with a 3-1 run beginning just a minute before the end of the third quarter. The run, capped by Blue Devil Matt Danowski’s goal with six minutes left, pushed the game into overtime tied at 6. Once in OT, the Cavaliers gained then lost possession, putting Duke’s destiny into their own hands.

After the Blue Devils missed their first shot in OT, Virginia junior Jack Riley overplayed Duke’s Brad Ross at the top of the crease, hanging goalie Kip Turner out to dry. As Riley sailed out of the play, Danowski fed Ross from the right pipe. In one fluid move, Ross moved left and flipped the ball over his shoulder, behind his back, past Turner, for the 7-6 win.
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Via UVa Sports Information

The Virginia women’s lacrosse team dropped a tough 12 - 9 decision to No.15 Johns Hopkins today (April 14) in Baltimore. No.5 Virginia (11-3) was led offensively by Brittany Kalkstein (3g,1a) and Jess Wasilewski (3g). Jen Holden led the Hoos defensively with five ground balls and two caused turnovers.

Claire Bordley won the opening draw control and Virginia set up its attack. Megan Havrilla cut across the mouth of the cage and scored 50 seconds into the game for a 1-0 lead. Kadie Stamper won the draw for JHU and scored 39 seconds after Havrilla to tie the game. Wasilewski controlled the ensuing draw and the Cavaliers got the ball to Kalkstein, who drew a shooting space foul. The first-year converted the shot to put UVa up 2-1 three minutes into the game.
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Via UVa Sports Information

The No. 5/6 Cavaliers, ranked in the top six of all four major polls, take on the No. 15/16 Blue Jays of Johns Hopkins in a key south regional matchup at Homewood Field in Baltimore, Md. on Saturday, April 14 at noon. Virginia enters the game with an 11-2 record (2-2, ACC) against the nation’s fourth-toughest schedule as ranked by lacrossedraw.com. The Blue Jays (7-5, 0-1 ALC) have played the nation’s seventh-toughest schedule.

Virginia and Johns Hopkins have played just once in school history, in the 2005 NCAA first round in Charlottesville, Va. The Cavaliers escaped with a 10-8 come-from-behind victory. In 2007, Virginia and Johns Hopkins have both faced Princeton, Georgetown and Maryland; the Cavaliers have won all three games (PU: 9-7, GU: 14-7; MD: 15-4) while the Blue Jays have lost all three games (PU: 10-11 ot; GU: 13-16; MD 15-22)

The Cavaliers rank 15th nationally in scoring offense (13 goals per game). Virginia is led by Kate Breslin, who has already hit career highs of 39 goals and 20 assists in her fourth-year. She ranks 14th nationally in points per game (4.53). In addition, she ranks 10th all-time in points and goals as a fourth-year and seventh in assists. Blair Weymouth, the 2006 National Rookie of the Year, ranks second on Virginia’s team with 33 goals and 16 assists for 49 points. She ranks seventh all-time at Virginia for scoring as a second-year, passing Breslin’s total of 48. Ashley McCulloch’s 17 assists is more than her total points from 2006; she ranks second on the team and seventh all-time in school history as a second-year.
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