Virginia Rebounds From Duke Loss With Comfortable 21-9 Victory Over Quinnipiac

Lower than 48 hours after the Cavaliers arrived dwelling in Charlottesville from their 17-8 thrashing by the hands of the Duke Blue Devils in Durham on Thursday, No. 6 Virginia males’s lacrosse took the sphere once more, seeking to put the disappointing efficiency at Duke within the rear view mirror. The Cavaliers did precisely what they wanted to do, tallying 15 objectives within the first half and cruising to a snug 21-9 victory over Quinnipiac on Saturday night time at Klockner Stadium. 

The Bobcats scored the sport’s first objective, however Virginia quelled their upset hopes rapidly after that with six straight objectives in response. The primary three objectives in that streak got here from Connor Shellenberger, who snapped out of a capturing stoop during which he scored simply two objectives on 23 pictures during the last three video games. Shellenberger tallied a hat trick throughout the first six minutes of the sport. 

Higher but, Shellenberger, who has been coping with a shoulder harm over the previous couple of video games that actually performed a think about his capturing drop-off, performed lower than a half of lacrosse on Saturday night time, as Lars Tiffany was in a position to pull his star attackman from the sport with the Cavaliers already holding a snug lead. 

Virginia was additionally with out the companies of fifth-year attackman Matt Moore, who suffered a lower-body harm within the first half of UVA’s loss at Richmond two weeks in the past and missed the win in opposition to UNC final week. Moore began the sport at Duke, nevertheless it was very clear that he was nowhere close to 100%. He nonetheless managed to attain two objectives, however was pulled from the sport early within the second half. 

Even with out Moore, the Virginia offense was firing on all cylinders. Quinnipiac scored the primary objective of the second quarter to make it 6-2, however UVA then put collectively one other scoring run, tallying the following eight objectives and taking a 15-3 halftime lead. 

Ten completely different Cavaliers registered a objective within the recreation, led by Xander Dickson, who began the sport at assault and scored a career-high 5 objectives. Shellenberger recorded three objectives and 5 UVA gamers had two objectives: Payton Cormier, Griffin Schutz, Jack Simmons, Patrick McIntosh, and Paul Rodriguez. 

Lars Tiffany was ready to enter his bench reserves early and sometimes and lots of of Virginia’s starters didn’t play very a lot within the second half. 

That didn’t apply to Petey LaSalla, who was UVA’s solely accessible faceoff specialist within the recreation, as backup Gable Braun was out with an sickness. LaSalla, who grew to become Virginia’s all-time chief in profession floor balls on Thursday, was incredible in opposition to Quinnipiac, successful 23 of his 28 attracts and selecting up 10 floor balls. Lengthy-stick defensive midfielder Mitchell Whalen took six faceoffs for Virginia, successful three of them. 

Regardless of watching his group rating 21 objectives, matching UVA’s season-high scoring output, Lars Tiffany stated after the sport that he was nonetheless dissatisfied along with his group’s capturing efficiency and identified that it took the Cavaliers 57 pictures to attain the 21 objectives. Because of LaSalla’s dominance on the faceoff x and 19 Quinnipiac turnovers (together with eight failed clears), Virginia loved a hefty benefit in time of possession and had extra pictures on objective (37) than the Bobcats had pictures (27). In opposition to more durable defenses and with out such a hefty possession benefit, that degree of capturing proportion is not going to get the job achieved for Virginia down the stretch. 

With two video games left within the common season and just some weeks remaining till the NCAA Match, the Cavaliers are nonetheless hoping to construct in the direction of taking part in their finest lacrosse in Could and getting all of their starters fully wholesome will definitely be a key step in that course of. Even with the current stumbles in opposition to Richmond and Duke, Virginia has managed to play effectively sufficient total this season to go 9-3 and 4-1 in ACC play, giving UVA a chance to clinch not less than a share of the ACC Championship subsequent Saturday at Syracuse. 

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