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Last Friday, the Virginia men’s soccer team took down rival Virginia Tech 4-2. After going down a goal in the first half, the Cavaliers responded with four of their own in less than 13 minutes. First, Andreas Ueland knocked one in with just over 20 minutes to play off a cross from Leo Alfonso. Five minutes later Kome Ubogu put the Cavaliers ahead on a diving header. Seven minutes after that Philip Horton slotted home a penalty kick after being taken down in the box. Not even 30 seconds later, Leo Alfonso added a fourth for the Cavaliers to send Klöckner Stadium into a frenzy. Virginia Tech would score a late goal, but it was too little too late for the Hokies who remain winless on the season. 

The Cavaliers win over the Hokies put them at 3-2 on the season before a 5-0 win against La Salle moved them to 4-2. The five goals came from Leo Afonso, Axel Ahlander, Aidan O’Connor, Kome Ubogu, and Triton Beauvois. Next up, Virginia hosts Notre Dame on Friday night before American comes to town on Tuesday. The following Saturday the Cavaliers will travel to Syracuse.

The women’s soccer team played just one game this week, tying VCU on Sunday afternoon. The Cavaliers outshot the Rams 24 to 7 but were unable to put one past VCU goalkeeper Whitney Horton. The tie moves Virginia’s record to 7-0-1 on the season and maintains their unbeaten start to the season. 

The seventh-ranked Cavaliers travel to Chapel Hill, North Carolina to take on the second-ranked UNC Tar Heels on Saturday in the first ACC game of the season. Four of Virginia’s next five games are against teams currently ranked in the top 12. After UNC, Notre Dame travels to No. 6 Notre Dame on Thursday before hosting unranked Louisville the following Sunday. They then go back on the road to face No. 3 Duke in Durham, NC. No. 12 Florida State closes out the five-game stretch. 

This past week the Virginia field hockey team lost 3-2 against the No.1 team in the country, Northwestern. After conceding two goals in the first eighteen minutes, Laura Janssen pulled one back for the Cavaliers. The deficit returned to two 15 minutes later, and while Cato Guesgens scored a second for Virginia, it wasn’t enough to overcome the top-ranked Wildcats.

The Cavaliers travel to Newton, Massachusetts to take on No. 21 Boston College on Friday afternoon. Two days later, Virginia will host No. 13 Saint Joseph’s. The Cavaliers are 3-2 on the season and ranked ninth in the country. 

The men’s and women’s cross country teams hosted the Virginia Invitational on Friday morning. It is the second meet of the season and the first of two meets hosted at Panorama Farms located north of Charlottesville.  

Both the men’s and women’s teams won their respective races with the men doing so in dominant fashion. Four of the top five finishers in the men’s six-kilometer race were Virginia athletes. Freshman Justin Wachtel won the race in 17:43.6 and junior Yasin Sado came in second with a time of 17:44.3. Senior Rohann Asfaw finished fourth in 17:48.8 and sophomore Wes Porter rounded out the top five with the same official time. In all, eight Virginia runners finished in the top twenty among the 55 finishers. 

In the women’s five-kilometer race, sophomore Margot Appleton finished second with a time of 17:10.4. Junior Camryn Menninger placed third with a time of 17:15.0. Sophomore Anna Workman ran in 17:27.8 to finish fifth while junior Esther Seeland’s time of 17:31.4 was good for seventh place. Seven Virginia runners finished in the top twenty among the 44 finishers. 

The Virginia volleyball team split its pair of games against Charlotte last weekend, winning the first game by three sets to two before falling three sets to two in the second match. In the first game, the Cavaliers won each of the first two sets only to concede the third and fourth. They narrowly won the fifth set 16-14 to secure the victory. In game number two, it was Charlotte that took a two sets to none lead before the Cavaliers fought back to force a fifth set. Charlotte won the fifth set 15-13 to even out the weekend doubleheader. 

The Cavaliers are now 6-2 on the season in coach Shannon Wells’ first season at the helm. On Friday, Virginia welcomes East Carolina and Mercer to Charlottesville for a doubleheader. UVA will take on ECU at 12:30pm before their 7:30pm matchup with Mercer. 

The reigning National Champions open their season this weekend at the Southern Intercollegiate Championships in Athens, Georgia. Iñaki Montes, Chris Rodesch, Jeffrey von der Schulenburg, Alexander Kiefer, Ty Switzer, and Ryan Goetz will all head to Georgia to compete as individuals against players from Georgia, Texas, and USC. 

Montes (No. 4), Rodesch (No. 7), von der Schulenburg (No. 21), and Goetz (No. 63) all open the year ranked in the ITA preseason singles rankings. For comparison, at the end of last season, Montes was No. 12, Rodesch was No. 20, von der Schulenburg was No. 38, and Goetz was No. 99.  

The women’s tennis team hosts the Wahoowa Invitational this weekend to begin its season. The Cavaliers will compete as individuals in singles and doubles matches against players from Old Dominion, West Virginia, NC State, Illinois, Auburn, LSU, and Princeton.

Virginia’s best player, Emma Navarro, turned pro after the end of last year’s season after just her sophomore year. Navarro won an individual National Championship in singles in her freshman year and was the No. 2 player in the country at the conclusion of the 2021-22 season. Her teammates Natasha Subhash (No. 28) and Elaine Chervinsky (No. 78) also made the end-of-season rankings. The team finished at No. 5 in the end-of-season rankings. 

Subhash enters the 2022-23 season ranked No. 18. Julia Adams, a graduate transfer from Furman, joins her in the preseason rankings at No. 35 as does Chervinsky at No. 56. 

The Virginia men’s golf team began its season with the Streamsong Invitational in Bowling Green, Florida this past Monday and Tuesday. As a team, the Cavaliers won the tournament with a collective score of 56-under 808. Lipscomb put up an incredible 33-under round to conclude the tournament but fell seven strokes short for a final score of 49-under. 

Freshman Ben James stood atop the individual standings with a score of 20-under. Senior Pietro Bovari tied for third with a final score of 15-under. Junior George Duangmanee finished tied for tenth at 11-under. Sophomore Deven Patel shot 10-under for the tournament to finish tied for 16th to round out the Virginia players that finished in the top 20. 

The season continues Monday, September 26th when the Inverness Collegiate takes place in Toledo, Ohio. 

The women’s golf team began their season this week as well, finishing third at the ANNIKA Intercollegiate with a team score of 1-under. The Cavaliers placed behind Wake Forest (6-under) and Texas (2-under). Sophomore Amanda Sambach finished atop the individual leaderboard with a final score of 9-under to win by two strokes. Fellow sophomore Megan Propeck finished tied for 19th at 3-over. 

On Monday, the Cavaliers will travel to Knoxville, Tennessee for the Mercedes Benz Intercollegiate.

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