Marino Finishes 14th in Masters Debut

Official Release, UVa Athletics Media Relations

Former Virginia golfer Steve Marino finished tied for 14th in his first appearance at The Masters. Marino finished at 2-under 286. He had rounds of 71, 73, 69 and 73. As one of the top 16 finishers at the event, Marino meets the criteria to receive an invitation to the 2011 tournament. He qualifed for this year's event thanks to a top-30 finish in the 2009 FedEx Cup Standings.

The Masters is just the latest strong finish for Marino this year. He placed fourth at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am and was fifth at the Northern Trust Open. He placed 11th at the Arnold Palmer Invitational and was 14th at the Shell Houston Open. He has made the cut in seven of nine tournaments this year and earned $934,047 on the tour to bring his career earnings to $6.3 million.

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This Week In Recruiting
By Chris Horne

Some of the state's best prospects came out for Virginia's Spring Football Festival on Saturday.

• Cox OL Ross Burbank
• Colonial Forge QB Blake Frohnapfel (no offer yet)
• Colonial Forge TE Eric Frohnapfel (no offer yet)
• Hermitage LB Curtis Grant
• L.C. Bird CB/WR Anthony Harris
• Liberty Christian Academy OL Grant Jones (no offer yet)
• Menchville RB Clifton Richardson
• Phoebus LB Caleb Taylor
• Osbourn Park WR/ATH Dominique Terrell
• Harrisonburg OL Landon Turner
• Hampton QB David Watford
• T.C. Williams OL Jay Whitmire

An EDGE article was posted Sunday night on 6-5, 290-pound offensive lineman Ross Burbank, who is a heavy lean to the Cavaliers after earning an offer on April 3. Burbank, who also has an offer from ODU, could commit as early as this week.

This week, we'll have articles out on Landon Turner and Curtis Grant. Turner discusses whether or not Virginia was able to get seriously in the race for his signature, while Grant, TheSabre.com's No. 1 prospect in the state in 2011, reflects on his latest visit to Charlottesville. I hope to catch up with all confirmed visitors this coming week or next, so stay tuned for continuous updates from the Spring Football Festival.

Updates on the EDGE subscriber message board have already been posted on Burbank, Grant, Caleb Taylor, Turner, Watford and Whitmire.

DE Chris Brathwaite, QB/TE Jake McGee, RB Kevin Parks Jr., OL Morgan Moses and OL Cody Wallace are the 2010 signees we confirmed to be in attendance on Saturday. I plan to catch up with FUMA head coach John Shuman for the latest on Moses and Wallace. I also hope to reach KP Parks for his take on the Spring Game, so stay tuned later this week for more from the 2010 front.

2010 class commitment Kyrrel Latimer, a standout out of DeMatha Catholic (Hyattsville, MD), attended on Saturday as well. The talented safety prospect planned on attending Fork Union at last check, but I hope to catch up with him for the latest this week. The 5-11, 190-pound senior was accompanied by DeMatha junior DL Kendall Patterson on Saturday.

Chris Horne, our resident recruiting expert, provides updates throughout the week for Edge subscribers about UVa's commitments and recruiting targets in football and men's basketball. To sign up for an Edge subscription, please check out the Sabre Edge Sign Up and Information Page. If you're already on board as an Edge subscriber, click the links below to catch up on recruiting.

Sabre Edge recruiting updates from the past week ...

Virginia Beach OL Leaning To UVa
A week after scoring a scholarship offer from head coach Mike London, 6-5, 290-pound offensive lineman Ross Burbank returned to the University of Virginia, visiting for the third time this year. Burbank, a junior out of Cox High School in Virginia Beach (VA), had a good experience at Saturday's Spring Football Festival.

Dunbar WR Has UVa Offer
Dunbar (Washington, D.C.) head coach Craig Jefferies stopped by the University of Virginia on Saturday to watch a spring practice, but he was not alone. He was accompanied by one of his newest players in wide receiver prospect Daniel Adams, a 6-3, 200-pound junior who transferred from Northwest High School (Germantown, MD) to Dunbar several months ago. Virginia has offered Adams, a player Jefferies is very high on.

More recent recruiting updates on The Sabre ...

• FB Recruiting Notes
• Q&A With Rod Johnson
• FBS Coaches Interested In T.C. Williams DE
• Hampton QB Scores First Offer
• FBS Programs In Hot Pursuit Of MacLain

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Blog Banter: Baseball Coverage

The Good Ol Blog had lots of baseball news this week. Here's a portion of the latest update:

The biggest difference between Virginia's 9-7 loss Saturday afternoon and the Hoos' 9-1 thrashing of Georgia Tech on Sunday were the little things. But as the song goes, "Little things mean a lot."

Saturday Virginia did not do the little things.

"We just didn't do the small things that it takes to beat a really good club," O'Connor lamented. "A couple of times we had a runner at third base and less than two outs and didn't get the run home. We didn't make a play or two defensively that led to a couple of runs and those two runs proved to be pretty pivotal in this ball game. We didn't execute some pitches on the mound that we needed to to win."

Clearly Sunday was a different day as the Cavaliers did all of the little things that lead to 9-1 blowouts of No. 2 opponents.

To read more about the baseball Cavaliers, check out these links on the blog:

• Little Things
• Seventh Inning Stretch
• Cavs Regroup, Down Dukes
• Baseball Seats Added

License Plate section is up in Wahoowa!

A few weeks ago, SabreMail made a request for anyone who had license plates that reflected your status as a Hoo fan. The responses have started to trickle in and the Plates Photos are up and running the Wahoowa! section of the site. The Wahoowa! section of the Sabre is dedicated to all things associated with UVa Fan-dom. There are various fan-related areas including desktop wallpaper, Fan of the Week photos, V-Sabres Worldwide, and more. If you have suggestions for new and interesting things in the Wahoowa! section, please email us at [email protected] with the header: Wahoowa! suggestion.

We'd like to keep adding photos to the section so if your license plate shows that you're a Hoo fan, let us know so we can include you in our gallery. All you need to do is snap a picture of your license plate and email a jpeg version of the photo to [email protected] with the email header: License Plate Photo.

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Around the World of Wahoo Sports ...

• No. 1 Cavaliers Sweep Senior Day Doubleheader: The top-ranked Virginia men's tennis team concluded the home portion of its regular season schedule Sunday with a doubleheader sweep at the Snyder Tennis Center. The Cavaliers (30-1, 9-0 ACC) defeated No. 18 Wake Forest 6-1 and Hampton 8-0 to reach the 30-win plateau for the fourth consecutive season.
• Women's Tennis Scores 5-2 Win at Wake Forest: he No. 40 Virginia women's tennis team concluded the road portion of its regular season schedule Sunday with a 5-2 win at No. 50 Wake Forest. The women's team also defeated N.C. State on the road, winning 4-3 on Saturday.
• No. 1 Virginia Opens New Meadowlands in Style with Triumph over No. 2 UNC: Steele Stanwick scored three goals and assisted another to lead the No. 1 Virginia Cavaliers (11-0, 2-0 ACC) to a 7-5 triumph over No. 2 North Carolina (10-1, 2-1 ACC) in the Konica Minolta Big City Classic on Saturday afternoon, in front of 25,710 fans inside the New Meadowlands Stadium. The record crowd for a regular season lacrosse only game saw Stanwick named the Player of the Game by Inside Lacrosse.
• Owen and Whiteley's Career Day Lifts No. 4 Virginia Over Virginia Tech, 20-14: In the highest scoring Virginia vs. Virginia Tech series - and closest margin of victory - it was the fourth-ranked Cavaliers that fought off an efficient Virginia Tech squad, 20-14, Wednesday.
• Debbie Ryan and Dawn Staley To Co-Coach 2010 USA Basketball Women's Select Team: For the first time in their careers, Virginia head coach Debbie Ryan and former Cavalier All-American and current South Carolina head coach Dawn Staley will team up as co-head coaches, acting as court coaches of the 2010 USA Basketball Women's Select Team. Additionally, Virginia's Monica Wright will be a member of the team.
• Monica Wright Drafted No. 2 by WNBA's Minnesota Lynx: Virginia senior guard Monica Wright was drafted second overall in the 2010 WNBA Draft, held Thursday in Secaucus, N.J., by the Minnesota Lynx.
• Andrews Breaks Meet Record in Mile at Lou Onesty Invitational: In front of 710 fans, freshman Robby Andrews opened his 2010 outdoor track and field season running a personal-best 4:01.53 in the mile run to break the meet record set by former Cavalier All-American Andrew Jesien at 4:02.18 last season. The event capped off Friday's opening day of the annual Lou Onesty Invitational at Lannigan Field. Other winners on the day included sophomore Tara Karin (javelin) and freshman Pearl Bickersteth (high jump).
• Keveren Shatters 3000m Meet Record at Lou Onesty Invitational: Redshirt freshman Sean Keveren led the Virginia track and field team on the final day of competition at the annual Lou Onesty Invitational at Lannigan Field on Saturday afternoon by shattering the meet record in the 3000m. Keveren led nine individual and three relay champions on the day, finishing with a time of 8:27.47 to better the previous meet record of 8:34.64. Other event winners for UVa were junior Adams Abdulrazaaq (110m hurdles), senior Lauretta Dezubay (1500m), redshirt freshman Tasia Potasinski (800m), senior All-American transfer Steve Delice (400m hurdles), freshman Danielle Williams (200m), and sophomore Anna Corrigan (3000m).
• Cavaliers Finish 11th at Wolfpack Intercollegiate: The No. 20 Virginia men's golf team finished 11th at NC State's Wolfpack Intercollegiate in Raleigh, N.C. on Saturday. It marked the first time this year the Cavaliers did not record a top-five finish in nine tournament appearances.
• Nielson Leads UVa to Tri-Match Win over Tar Heels and Pirates: Junior Calle Nielson shot even par 144 to take medalist honors and lead UVa to victory in a tri-match featuring North Carolina and East Carolina. The three schools played at Ironwood Country Club in Greenville N.C., the site of a 2010 NCAA Regional Championship.
• Sixth-Ranked Georgia Tech Beats UVa, 8-0: The Virginia softball team (23-17, 7-4 ACC) was defeated by Georgia Tech (34-6, 10-1 ACC) 8-0 in five innings Sunday. The Yellow Jackets earned the sweep over the Cavaliers after winning a doubleheader on Saturday; it marked the first series loss in conference play for UVa.

For more Hoo news or to read full releases, check out Virginiasports.com.

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Issue No. 401 - July 6, 2009

Former Virginia baseball star Ryan Zimmerman has earned his first Major League Baseball All-Star nomination as a member of the Washington Nationals. Zimmerman is the first UVa player to ever make the All-Star team. Read the Virginiasports.com release.

The Washington Post has this story about Zimmeran's selection; he earned his spot on the team through balloting from players, managers, and coaches. Here's an excerpt:

For several years now - but especially since he signed a five-year, $45 million contract extension in April -- Zimmerman has stood as the central piece of the Nationals' rebuilding plan. Zimmerman's status as an all-star, the organization feels, helps validate his worthiness of that role.

"The kid has been recognized now, and I hope this is the start of a stretch of maybe 10, 15 years for him," Nationals Manager Manny Acta said.

Check Out SabreMail #401.

Coming Soon

The Sabre has you covered when it comes to Hoo news. Here are a few of the articles to expect on the site soon:

• Baseball/Lacrosse/Tennis: The Sabre covers some of the Hoos' most successful teams as well as anyone. Stay tuned to the site!
• Spring Football: The Sabre continues to provide coverage on the football team following Saturday's Spring Game.

In Case You Missed It ...

Sabre articles since the last SabreMail

Mission Spring Cleaning Wraps Up
The final public outing of the spring for Virginia's football team has come and gone after the annual Spring Game clicked off the calendar on a gorgeous Saturday afternoon in Charlottesville. Plenty of questions remain. All of those questions and limited answers, frankly, don't mean much though. As is the case with many of our own households, this spring phase was all about doing the chores that hopefully lead to enjoying better days ahead.

Defense Highlights Spring Game
From the perspective of a Virginia fan, the best part of the Spring Game is that there's always a positive way to look at the outcome. Such was the case on Saturday at Scott Stadium, as the first-team offense was bottled up by the first-team defense for much of the controlled scrimmage segment of the Spring Football Festival. The orange team, consisting of the first-team defense and reserve offense, blew out the blue team, consisting of the first-team offense and second-team defense by a score of 30-3.

5 Things To Watch At The Spring Game
With Saturday's Spring Game on the docket this Saturday, the Virginia football team will debut many things - even if the full playbook isn't one of them. A new coaching staff, a new defensive alignment, and new pro combat series uniforms are just some of the intriguing factors for the weekend. With so many new aspects of the team to keep track of, here are five things to watch on Saturday at this year's Spring Game.

Bruno Making Early Impact For Hoos
Stephen Bruno Jr. is on his knees, with a ball and glove in hand. His father, Stephen Bruno Sr., stands 10 feet away. The younger Bruno turns so that his left shoulder points toward his father, cocks, and fires, and the ball smacks into Bruno Sr.'s glove directly in front of his chest. The elder Bruno moves back a few feet; again, his son hits the target. Back and back goes Bruno Sr., until his son can no longer hit the glove with pinpoint accuracy. At that point, the elder Bruno begins to move in, and the drill is repeated until he is back at the starting distance. For the 6-year-old Bruno Jr., it was the beginning of a baseball career that has only gotten brighter.

UVa Corners Could Lead Defense
Several times during spring practice, new Virginia coach Mike London has mentioned playing more bump or press coverage with the cornerbacks. Of course, in order to deploy this strategy, a team better have corners that can handle the challenges. Fortunately for London and cornerbacks coach Chip West, the Cavaliers have a great pair of corners ready to lead the way.

Shining Through: The History Of UVa's Colors
TheSabre.com is pleased to introduce a new series on the history of UVa football. Writer, director, and alumnus Kevin Edds is currently in production on the upcoming documentary Wahoowa: The History of Virginia Cavalier Football and will highlight some of the most interesting moments in the more than 120-year history of the South's oldest football program.

Inman Preps For Final Run
The Virginia football team wraps up spring practice this week with its annual Spring Game on Saturday. The scrimmage part of the afternoon's festival activities begins at 2 p.m. For receiver Dontrelle Inman, believe it or not, it will be his final Spring Game with the Cavaliers - "I feel like I just got here," he said recently. The Sabre caught up with Inman after an open practice for a "Quick Take" so read about the senior wideout, Bill Schautz, and more in this notes package.

Linebackers Part Of Speed Shift
With a new coaching staff in town with a 4-3 defense being installed, some players are making shifts around the defense and there's a common theme among many of the moves: the need for speed. That's why former safeties in the secondary are lining up at outside linebacker this spring, including Ausar Walcott and LaRoy Reynolds. Senior linebacker Jared Detrick says the more speed, the better.

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