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Tribe upset VCU in CAA final

 A nearly tragic season took a heroic turn for the men's soccer team last weekend in the CAA Championships.

The Tribe, having struggled much of the year with injuries on defense and a lack of scoring on offense, shut out No. 1-seeded Old Dominion Friday and scored three times in the first half against Virginia Commonwealth Sunday to capture the conference title and clinch a fifth-consecutive berth in the NCAA tournament.



Greatest Moments of the '90s in Tribe sports

 When the football team played Delaware in early November 1996, it was crucial to notch a win to keep hopes for a Yankee Conference title alive. The two teams battled through a defensive game, and Delaware missed a field goal in the final minutes of the fourth quarter to render a 7-7 tie at the end of regulation.



W&M flies toward Carolina Blue

 After dispensing of the Duke Blue Devils 3-0 in the second round of the NCAA tournament, the women's soccer team is hoping to kill off another North Carolina team this weekend. The squad faces third-seeded UNC in the Sweet Sixteen tomorrow at Chapel Hill in a rematch of last year's second-round matchup between the two teams.



Lane gets revenge in regional race

 The NCAA Cross Country Finals will be held at Indiana University this Monday. The men's cross-country team will be there, after automatically qualifying with a second-place finish at the regional race.



Squad to host CAA tournament

 With this weekend's CAA volleyball tournament looming on the horizon, the volleyball team dropped a tough, five-set match to the University of Maryland-Baltimore County Saturday in its regular-season finale.



W&M's playoff hopes crash vs. UMass

 The University of Massachusetts showed why it will be a team to be reckoned with in the Division I-AA football playoffs. Saturday, the Minutemen overpowered the Tribe, 25-16, to dash any hopes of a playoff berth for W&M. The Green and Gold fell to 5-5 on the year.



Runners tripped up in regional qualifier

 The stakes were high for the women's cross-country team in the 1999 Southeast Region Qualifier meet last Saturday at Furman, with the results of the meet determining who would make an appearance at the NCAA National Championship Monday at Indiana.



Poor shooting buries Tribe

 Plagued by bad shooting, the men's basketball team fell to the Court Authority 74-66 Tuesday in a preseason game. The Tribe shot only 34.2 percent from the floor and 58.3 percent from the free-throw line, while allowing its opponents to score on more than half of their attempted field goals.



The Club House

 The W&M synchronized swimming club took second place overall last weekend in its first meet of the season, a compulsory figures meet hosted by Richmond. The Spiders took first place over the Tribe by half a point, followed by the University of Alabama-Birmingham and Mary Washington College.



W&M faces long-time rivals

A loss to the University of Massachusetts last week crushed any W&M playoff hopes and dropped the team to .500, but the Tribe will have no problem preparing for the Richmond Spiders Saturday.



Fearless Picks: Wait a Minute(man)!

 I lost a lot of respect for the University of Massachusetts last weekend. It had nothing to do with the behavior of its football team. On the contrary, I thought the game was a great, down-to-the-wire game that we let slip out of reach in the last few minutes.