Dear Hoos,

Getting ready for the upcoming season? Flex your muscles and take a few laps around our new Pre-season Blowout Sale in TheSabreShop.com. No need to sprint through this sale. We have added so many items you will want to pace yourself. Many of your standard feature items, as well as leather goods, watches and kids items, will be on this Spring Sale roster. To show our appreciation, TheSabreShop will also include a free gift in each shipment.

The 2002 Spring Pre-season Blowout Sale will make room for our new store items and designs taking the field this summer. Check it out and SAVE BIG!

With rising junior PF JC Mathis announcing his intentions to transfer, coach Pete Gillen now has one more scholarship available for the 2002-2003 season. That scholarship could go to 6'5", 210 lb WG/WF Shane Power, who recently announced his intentions to transfer from Iowa State University.

According to the Iowa State official web site, Power was "one of the best athletes on the team.a hustler and a scrapper." Last season, he was one of the Cyclones' most consistent offensive performers while serving as the team's best perimeter defender. He averaged 13.6 points per game, including a 19-point performance in a loss at Missouri. He scored a career-high of 22 points in two separate games last season - versus Drake and Pennsylvania. In addition, Power averaged 4.5 rebounds, 2.4 assists, and led the team with 1.2 steals per contest. Power shot 44% percent from the field, 80% from the free throw line, and 32% from behind the arc. He is versatile enough to play both the perimeter and low-post game.

Power originally hails from Merrillville Andrean HS in Crown Point, Indiana, where he was a finalist for Indiana's Mr. Basketball Award his senior season. He averaged 26.3 points, 10.4 rebounds and 7.0 assists his senior season. Other schools contending for Power's services include Notre Dame, Wisconsin, New Mexico, Pitt and Mississippi State (according to recruiting analyst Dave Telep). He is scheduled to visit the Cavaliers this weekend.

Brown Automotive Group of Charlottesville (a big sponsor of TheSabre.com) is having a very large Memorial Weekend Sale starting today and continuing through the 27th.

Discounts and rebates up to $7,000 and financing as low as 0% with approved credit. The location will be in the parking lot of Lowe's Home Improvement on 29 North in Charlottesville.

UVa Lacrosse in Final Four

The Virginia men's lacrosse team secured a place in the NCAA Tournament final four by defeating Cornell last weekend, 11-10.

Senior Conner Gill put in a career performance with one goal and nine assists in the contest. Freshman sensation John Christmas helped the Cavalier effort by scoring the winning goal with just under four minutes to play in the game.

The Cavaliers now advance to the semi-finals for the third time in the past four years, and will face second-seeded Syracuse. Syracuse defeated the Cavaliers earlier in the season, 15-13 in Charlottesville.

Game time will be at approximately 2:15 p.m. (EST), about 45 minutes after the first contest between Johns Hopkins and Princeton. The Hopkins-Princeton game begins at 11:30 a.m.. The games will be played at Rutgers Stadium in Piscataway, N.J. and will be televised by ESPN2.

The winners will advance to the National Championship game to be played at 11:00 a.m. Monday. The game will be televised by ESPN.

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