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Sparrow commits after win | Charlottesville Daily Progress

In the midst of an official visit this weekend, wide receiver Javanti Sparrow noticed the patches of empty seats in the student section.

That was explainable as East Carolina’s trip to Charlottesville landed perfectly on Virginia’s fall break.

It was the product on the field and the close-knit unit that produced a 35-20 victory, however, that ultimately led Sparrow to join Virginia recruiting class for 2009. The star from Chesapeake’s Western Branch High, who is 6-foot-1, 185 pounds and won the 500-meter run in the state indoor track in the winter of 2007 as a sophomore, became the 20th commitment for the class.

“It was real exciting. I didn’t think I was going to do it at first, but I was thinking about it hard when we got in the car on the way home,” Sparrow said Sunday. “We probably made it about 10 minutes down the road and just had to pull over and I called Coach [Al] Groh to tell him.”