Wake beat down UVa in the first half before coasting in the second to hand the Cavaliers their worst loss in five years.
The sporting weekend had started so nicely: the field hockey team knocked off Maryland and Florida State’s football team continued their calendar-year implosion by falling toothlessly to Memphis. But after the men laid an egg at Scott Stadium versus Maryland, the women did so similarly at Klöckner. The Deacons were up 3-0 at the half and took their foot off the gas in the second, so the score line actually flatters the Cavaliers.
The injuries that Emma Dawson, Lia Godfrey and Laney Rouse must have been especially severe because a year and half later, we still haven’t seen Dawson and Godfrey is a step slow. Godfrey’s touch is still sublime, but she doesn’t have the separation she used to have. Rouse, injured in the first game of summer, only started running in June, and she, too, has lost a step.
These issues have been here for the first eight games, and I’ve moaned about them, but Virginia had nonetheless prevailed, and at 8-0, were only one of six Division I teams to sport a perfect record. But Wake brought a team speed that was the difference maker, a speed that Virginia simply couldn’t match.
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