Monday, May 24, 2010

NCAA Men's Lacrosse: Virginia Beats Stony Brook,10-9

BLACK BUZZ SPORTS NEWS
Big Stone Gap, Virginia
May 24, 2010

The number one ranked University of Virginia Cavaliers Men's Lacrosse team, held off the upstart Stony Brook Seawolves, to advance to the final four with a 10-9 victory at Stony Brook. Virginia will now face the pesky Duke Devils in a classic final four match up, which will decide who will play in the NCAA National Championship on May 30, at the M & T Stadium in Baltimore Maryland. Duke was the only team to defeat Virginia during the regular season, when the Blue Devils captured a hard fought victory over the Cavaliers in Charlottesville Virginia, on April 17 by a score of 13-9. Virginia beat Duke in the ACC Championship 16-13. So this is the rubber match between these two perennial powerhouses in Men's Lacrosse.
Cornell will play Notre Dame in the other semi-final game at the M & T Stadium in Baltimore.
All four of the teams in this years final four rank in the top twenty five as the best academic institutions in the country, which shows that you can combine excellent academics and athletics. See U.S. News & World Report, 2010 Edition, America's Best Colleges.
Black Buzz predicts that the University of Virginia, will play the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame, for the coveted National title with Virginia winning 16-14 in a thriller.

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