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A first round win should be easy for Tech. UVA finished just 1-20 in the ACC (that's not a typo), while the Hokies were 44-14 overall and 15-5 in ACC play. Tech swept the season series against the Hoos, outscoring them 16-1 in a three game series in Charlottesville. The Hokies won the regular season ACC Championship thanks in large part to their All-American pitcher, Angela Tincher. Tincher finished the season with a 33-5 overall record and an ERA of 0.61. She struck out 539 batters this season, and she's easily the most dominant pitcher in the conference. Tincher struck out 22 batters in a win over Liberty this past week. Those 22 strikeouts took her to 1,392 for her career. She is just seven strikeouts away from breaking the all-time ACC career strikeout record of 1,398. That record is held by Jessica Sallinger of Georgia Tech. Only a junior, Tincher will get that record in her next game. If Virginia Tech gets past Virginia in the first round, they'll face the winner of the UNC/Florida State game on May 11 at 3pm. The Hokies defeated the Seminoles two out of three times this year and beat UNC both times they played. Tech's third game with the Tar Heels was rained out and not made up. Total it up, and out of their three opponents for their first two games of the ACC Tournament, the Hokies went 7-1 on the season. They have a very good shot to get to the semifinals on Saturday, May 12 unscathed. They are also a lock to make it to the NCAA tournament for the third consecutive season. For the past two years the Hokies haven't made it past the first regional, but that could easily change this year. Not coincidentally, Tech's emergence as an ACC softball power came about the very season Tincher enrolled. As good as the softball team is this year, they have a chance to be even better next season. The Hokies will lose just three seniors when this season is over. Pitchers Karie Morrison and Ashley Thatcher combined to play in just 15 games this season. The third senior is outfield Callie Rhodes, who has started every game the past two seasons. With Tincher and almost everyone else returning next year, the Hokies could go a long way in the postseason. Follow this year's ACC Softball Tournament here
The Virginia Tech men's tennis team will be in action next weekend as well when they take on #30 Old Dominion in the first round of the NCAA Tournament in Charlottesville. The University of Virginia is hosting first and second round matches this year. If the #39 Hokies knock off ODU, they'll face the winner of the Virginia-Hampton match, which will likely be Virginia. The Hoos went 11-0 in ACC matches over the course of the season.
The Virginia Tech doubles team of Nicolas Delgado and Pedro Graber has been selected as one of 32 doubles teams to compete in the 2007 NCAA Division I Men's Tennis Championships. The event will take place at the University of Georgia from May 23-28. Delgado and Graber are ranked #19 nationally in the latest Intercollegiate Tennis Association poll. They finished the season with a 20-4 record overall, and an 8-3 mark in the ACC. Pairings for the individual tournament will not be released until May 22, the day before the event begins. If Delgado and Graber win their first two matches and are among the final eight players of the tournament, they will earn All-American honors. Delgado is a sophomore and Graber is a freshman, so this combo should be good for another couple of seasons. | |||||||||||
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Edison
(Alexandria, VA) junior wide receiver Ben Barber made unofficial
visits to Penn State and Virginia last month. He'll make visits to other
programs in the ensuing months, including a trip to Rutgers for a Nike
Camp on May 13th. The 5-10, 190-pound prospect is anxious to show what he
can do in New Jersey in two weeks.
Virginia
is one of the more recent scholarship offers for Pelion (S.C.) junior Dalton
Freeman, who is close to but not quite at the 20-scholarship offer
mark. Ben Freeman, Dalton's father and Pelion's head football coach, sees
his 6-6, 270-pound son surpassing that mark during the May evaluation
period.
In
2006, the ACC dominated the NFL Draft with a total of 51 selections,
beating out the second place Big Ten by a total of 10 selections. The
ACC's number dropped to 31 this year, with most top players in the ACC in
2006 returning to school for the 2007 season. It should be an exciting
upcoming season for the ACC, but let's first take a look at what the
conference lost to the NFL.
Three
Virginia Tech football players were drafted by NFL teams over the weekend,
and three more were signed as free agents shortly after the draft
concluded on Sunday evening. Will they make the team in their first
season, or will they be released and then catch on to a practice squad
somewhere? We'll take a look at the competition they'll face in their
first NFL preseason.
There
is no question that Salem (Virginia Beach, VA) running back Kevin
Whaley turned in a fantastic junior season. The Tidewater and Beach
district Offensive Player of the Year, he rushed for 1,992 yards and 37
touchdowns in 2006, helping Salem to an appearance in the Group AAA,
Division 6 state semifinals. Virginia Tech certainly took notice of
Whaley's performance and was the first school to extend an offer.
Virginia
Tech's 2007 football schedule will be very tough. Some fans will call it
the toughest schedule in Tech history, but that's debatable. The Hokies
went through some rough times in Frank Beamer's early years, and part of
their struggles came because they played very tough schedules. We'll
compare Tech's 2007 schedule to those of some of Beamer's early teams.
We'll also rank the Hokies' toughest games of 2007 from one through 12.
Wide
receiver David Clowney and offensive tackle Brandon Frye were selected in
the fifth round of the 2007 NFL Draft on Sunday, giving Virginia Tech
three total players drafted this year. Clowney was selected by the Green
Bay Packers with the 20th pick of round five (157th overall), and Frye was
taken by the Houston Texans six picks later (26th pick of round five,
163rd overall).
The
Justin Hamilton Foundation and the Sports Addict Radio Network,
headquartered in Blacksburg, have joined together to create the Virginia
Tech Scholarship Trust Fund in memory of the 32 victims of the Virginia
Tech shootings. This effort has been named "The Sports Community
Challenge." Justin Hamilton, former Virginia Tech football player and
current safety for the Cleveland Browns, got the effort started this week
with a personal pledge of fifty thousand dollars.