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Virginia men’s tennis advances to the NCAA Quarterfinals after defeating South Carolina
The No. 7 Virginia males’s tennis staff (25-5, 12-0 ACC) superior to its fifteenth quarterfinal within the final 17 NCAA Championships with a 4-0 victory over No. 10 South Carolina (23-7, 10-2 SEC) Friday. The Cavaliers have now gained all of their NCAA Championship matches this 12 months with the identical rating of 4-0 and can play No. 2 Florida (26-2, 12-0 SEC) within the quarterfinal.
Senior Gianni Ross and sophomore Jeffrey von der Schulenberg began doubles off with a 6-4 win, however graduate pupil Bar Botzer and sophomore Chris Rodesch fell on the highest court docket 6-3 because the Gamecocks tied up the doubles level. Nonetheless, Virginia ultimately prevailed as sophomore Iñaki Montes de la Torre and senior Ryan Goetz claimed a 6-4 victory on court docket two, clinching the doubles level for the Cavaliers.
Now with a 1-0 lead within the match, Virginia was simply starting singles play open air when a rainstorm interrupted the match. After being moved to the indoor courts and enduring a delay within the match, the Cavaliers confirmed no lack of focus or momentum as they picked up three singles wins to shut out the victory. Coach Andres Pedroso was more than happy along with his staff’s capacity to refocus and readjust.
“There have been some ups and downs. Going from open air to indoors is at all times difficult, however our guys have been complete professionals on the market,” Pedroso mentioned. “So I’m pleased with them. We competed till the tip and performed strong. No matter got here our approach, we have been prepared for.”
As soon as indoors, Ross was the primary to win his matchup, incomes a 6-4, 7-5 victory on court docket 5. He was adopted by Goetz who, having already begun his first set open air earlier than play was suspended, was capable of end off a 6-4, 6-1 win on court docket 4.
Botzer earned the fourth level for Virginia to ship the staff to the quarterfinals. After dropping the primary set of his matchup on court docket six, he was capable of battle again for the following two and safe the win for the Cavaliers with a rating of 2-6, 6-2, 6-2. After a really profitable undergraduate profession at Wake Forest, Botzer is happy to have the ability to have an effect on his new staff’s success.
“Taking part in at [court] six and successful the purpose is strictly the identical level as successful at [court] one, so I’m simply joyful that I’m capable of assist the staff lastly,” Botzer mentioned. “I felt prefer it was at instances actually troublesome for me to assist the staff, particularly with wins, however I’ve at all times been taking part in my finest tennis in Could, and I hope that for this 12 months as effectively.”
Subsequent up, Virginia can have one in all its most troublesome exams of the season up to now, as they match up with the Gators for a visit to the semifinals. Earlier this season, the Cavaliers misplaced to Florida by a rating of 4-2. Each groups have but to have some extent scored on them in these NCAA Championships and that is setting as much as be a heavyweight battle between these two convention champions.
The Cavaliers will look to get their revenge on the Gators Thursday on the Khan Outside Tennis Advanced in Champaign, Unwell. A beginning time for the match has but to be introduced.
— By Katie Farthing
Read on for some of the ways Virginia is ranked tops:
Our college life
USA Today rated Charlottesville and Williamsburg as two of the best small college towns in the nation thanks to their rich history, beautiful scenery, and fun daily life.
Our beer
Staunton has the 10th best small town beer scene, according to USA Today.
Our museums
We’re home to the 7th best free museum in the nation, designated by USA Today. The Blue Ridge Music Center in Galax lets visitors write song lyrics and mix mountain music, as well as see live performances.
Our small town food scene
Abingdon may be mini in stature, but it’s high in the small town food scene—number 3 in the country to be exact, according to USA Today.
Our niche neighborhoods
Uniquely charming and underrated, Colonial Village in Arlington is the best place to live, according to Niche. It’s all thanks to a lively nightlife, beautiful parks, highly rated-schools, and a young population of residents.
Our airports
Dulles International Airport is the 11th best in the world and second in the country, according to AirHelp.
This is web-exclusive content from the December 2024 issue.
Jude Joffe-Block:
There’s a pattern where people have visited the DMV, and they at some point there must have made a mistake on a form where they identified — they marked a box identifying themselves as noncitizens somewhere in those forms. We’re not really sure how exactly this happens.
But after that visit to the DMV, they got a letter in the mail from their local election official, saying, we think you might not be a citizen. Please affirm your citizenship.
We spoke to a voter, Nadra Wilson, who that letter was sent to the wrong address. It got forwarded. By the time she got it, the deadline had already passed. She was able to re-register. We spoke to another voter, Rina Shaw. She did get the letter in the mail letting her know that she had to affirm her citizenship. And she did send it back.
But, even then, she was still not on the rolls. And she was able to call and sort that out. But all of this does take time. Both of those voters did end up voting early this week, though.
The Syracuse Orange (5-2, 2-2) welcome the Virginia Tech Hokies (5-3, 3-1)to the Dome on Saturday for a critical ACC match-up. Kickoff is Noon on The CW and here’s what we’re watching for:
Kevin: Protect Kyle
Virginia Tech defensive end Antwaun Powell-Ryland has nine sacks and seventeen hurries on the season and leads a strong Hokies pass rush. Syracuse needs to keep APR from disrupting their passing game so that Kyle McCord can attack a secondary rated the second-worst in coverage by PFF. Will the Orange use screens and draws to force APR to read and react instead of letting him just tee off and attack McCord? If Syracuse can negate APR’s impact they could score enough to win this one.
Mike: Make the Most of Allen
With Yasin Willis doubtful for Saturday’s game, this could be the first time since last season where LeQuint Allen is leaned on as a bell-cow back. How much that affects the offensive gameplan remains to be seen, but it might incite more designed plays as opposed to the RPO package SU has run very frequently. The o-line is struggling to block effectively on option plays lately so to make sure they can get Allen wide lanes to run through, a more traditional approach could work better this week.
Dom: Keeping momentum up for Syracuse’s 12th man
The Orange are once again back in the Dome for the first time in quite a while (September 28 to be exact). Since then, Syracuse’s road trip resulted in two nice wins over UNLV and NC State, then most recently with a bitter blowout loss. Fans will be looking for the Orange to bounce back against an inconsistent but still tough ACC opponent. Considering it’s also alumni weekend, the Dome should have plenty of seats filled and should look to take care of business.
Max: Keep Kyron Drones in the pocket
VT’s quarterback is extremely dangerous in the running game, racking up over 300 rushing yards through eight games, good for 19th in the ACC. The only conference QBs with more rushing yards are Georgia Tech’s Haynes King and Stanford’s Ashton Daniels, who gave the Orange fits on the ground this year. Syracuse’s rush defense still ranks in the top 50 in rush yards allowed per game, and it will need to keep Drones in the pocket to find some success this Saturday.
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