For the third time in six years, the Cavaliers came out to the familiar confines of Drake Stadium and lost, this time 3-0 Friday in an NCAA third-round match.

After dominating Rider on Thursday night at John Paul Jones Arena, several Virginia players said that Rider’s previous win over 18th-ranked Mississippi State had gotten their attention.

The Mountaineers put the ball on the ground three times, missing the chance to extend their season in a 10-0 loss to the Colonels in the Region B, Division 1 semifinals.

Danielle Forword, Taryn Gjurich and Elizabeth Drazdowski scored goals for No. 3 North Carolina as it edged No. 2 Virginia 3-2 in Friday’s second semifinal at Kentner Stadium on the campus of Wake Forest.

Park View used a balanced offense and let its defense do the rest in its Region II, Division 3 semifinal game on Friday night.

Without question, December will have a different meaning at Clemson and Virginia.

If Al Groh wasn’t such a moral man, he’d probably be tempted to sell his soul for an offense.

Virginia, behind 17 points and nine rebounds from Mike Scott, 12 points from Sammy Zeglinski and a spark off the bench from walk-on Will Sherrill, led Rider almost from wire to wire and notched the first blowout win of the Bennett era — a 79-46 dismantling of the Broncs.

This afternoon, Michele Madison’s team will be playing in the Final Four, its fourth straight NCAA tournament.

It has given Clemson, the first-place team in the Atlantic Division, a decisive advantage — the Tigers have better than a 70 percent winning percentage at home.

UVa rolled over the Rider University Broncs 79-46 at home.

Celebrating her 20th birthday, Shine torched USC Upstate for a career-best 27 points as Virginia rolled to an easy 110-63 victory inside John Paul Jones Arena.

Scattershooting around the ACC, wondering if Virginia can keep from getting blown out in Death Valley on Saturday ...

After wearing an orange necktie during Virginia’s season-opening victory over Longwood last week, Cavaliers coach Tony Bennett didn’t wear one in the team’s loss at South Florida on Monday night.

From dugouts and dogpiles to touchdowns and tackles, Kyle Parker has already experienced an array of athletic memories in college that many experience only in dreams.

Calvin Baker, who served as one of the team’s three captains last season, made his return to the court in Virginia’s 66-49 loss to South Florida on Monday night.

For the past few weeks, I have spent some of my spare time trying to figure out what went wrong with Virginia football.

Perry Jones, a seldom-used true freshman, was anointed with his first four carries of the season against Boston College in Simpson’s absence.

Western Albemarle quarterback Stephen Schuler and linebacker Mitchell Parks were named Jefferson District offensive and defensive players of the year on Tuesday.

South Florida, behind 22 points and seven rebounds from junior guard Dominique Jones, and 18 points and eight rebounds from Augustus Gilchrist, avenged their loss to Virginia last season in Charlottesville with a 66-49 victory in front of a crowd of 4,193 at The Sun Dome.

That revolving-door policy, among myriad other contributing factors, has made life complicated for Virginia coach Al Groh during the program’s worst slide in two decades.

C.J. Spiller just might be the most exciting football player in the ACC and it’s obvious why. He can kill you in so many ways.

After the break, the Barons woke up. The offense chipped away at the deficit in the third quarter, and the defense made big plays to erase it in the fourth. Speedy McCauley’s 37-yard touchdown pass to A.J. Williams was the final blow as Blue Ridge won 32-30 to advance to this weekend’s state final.

The Blue Ridge school football team came from behind to beat Atlantic Shores Christian 32-30 in the VISAA semi-finals Monday in Greene County, VA.

The Cavaliers are left to play for pride with the third losing season in four years already secured, and a young roster of players will miss another chance to have additional practice sessions leading up to a postseason affair.

The No. 2 seeded Virginia women’s field hockey team defeated Michigan State 3-2 in overtime Sunday afternoon to advance to the NCAA semifinals next weekend in Winston-Salem, N.C.

Tonight, the Cavaliers, with first-year coach Tony Bennett, hope to put the trend behind them when they play at the University of South Florida. UVa has a 10-game losing streak in the Sunshine State.

The storyline to watch for the season entailing the deep first-year class was overshadowed in the second half. After making just two shots from the field in the first half, senior guard Monica Wright exploded after intermission for 25 of her game-high 31 points.

Virginia’s postseason hopes were dashed by a spot that came just inches short as the Cavaliers fell to Boston College 14-10 as 44,324 sat stunned inside Scott Stadium.

On a picturesque fall afternoon, Western Albemarle did something it hadn’t done in 30 years.