Hokies up 7-0 after 1st inning. Emma Ritter led off with a Homerun
B1 | Welllll that was quick ๐Ritter puts Tech on the board with a solo home run! pic.twitter.com/0m4w6CBpMxโ Virginia Tech Softball (@HokiesSoftball) March 15, 2024
Cori McMillan had a grand slam to make it 5-0. Good bounce back after Charlotte game.
B1 | Can she be anymore ๐ฎ๐น๐จ๐ต๐ซ? ๐คฉGRAND SLAM @corimcmillan_! Hokies up 5-0! pic.twitter.com/xqYrObNuSyโ Virginia Tech Softball (@HokiesSoftball) March 15, 2024
Teagan Thrunk also had a two run homerun
B1 | It's a home run party ๐@teaganthrunk goes yard for the first time this season!๐ฆ- 7๐- 0 pic.twitter.com/Pd8m4qizIxโ Virginia Tech Softball (@HokiesSoftball) March 15, 2024
Hokies have two more games against Pitt this weekend.
Game 2 Saturday 2pm ACCNX
Game 3 Sunday Noon ACCNX
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8-0
11-0 going into bottom of third. This one is going to be over early.
15-0 after 3rd.
Hokies hit their 4th and 5th homerun.
Peck and Ritter both had solo shots. It was Ritters second of the day.
Emma Lemley with four shutout innings and eight strikeouts. Struggled in bottom of fourth, loading bases, but worked out of it with two pop ups.
I decided to take a break from the baseball game and switched to this one just in time to see another Hokie home run.
Home run #6 from Fagan
Hokies up 16-0.
Will have Homerun #7 in a moment.
With video
Two run shot by Cori McMillan for her second of the day.
18-0 Hokies
I'm surprised they haven't called this one yet due to the pouring rain and many Hokie home runs.
And there is the weather delay
Have to finish 4 innings to be official I think.
Rain delay with one out in bottom of fourth. Rain is pretty heavy.
Twitter said resuming play in five minutes
Hokies win 18-0
19-4-1 now on the season
Softball leads 1-0 in third in game two
Hokies lead 3-0 in bottom of 4th.
Make it 4-0
They make it look easy - 3 bombs so far today after 7 last nite
Brings the season total to 55
Hokies lead 5-0 after 5
Rough sixth inning. 5-4 Hokies
Hokies get three insurance runs in bottom of 6th, lead 8-4
Ladies win game two, 8-4
Ladies lead 9-0 in third inning.
Addy Greene hit one off the scoreboard.
Hokies complete the sweep. Mazzarone throws 4 shutout innings and run rule came into play at 9-0 after 5.
A conference series should never be this uncompetitive. 35 runs to 4 in 3 games, with 2 games ending early due to the mercy rule.
couple of points...
-Pitt lost a three game series to Georgia Tech. All three losses were by the mercy rule. Two 5th innings and one 6th inning.
-Pitt has not played a home game yet this season. Their first home game is coming up this Tuesday against Penn State. Then this coming weekend against Florida State. So it doesn't get any better for them.
-Virginia Tech is really, really good.
I agree that we would like the conference to be more competitive top to bottom, but keep in mind that Duke(6), Clemson(12), and Florida State(16) are all currently ranked above us(18). Also Stanford, who will be in the conference next year is currently ranked 9th. I think the conference is pretty competitive.
In general I agree with you, but there are always ebbs and flows to college sports in general and softball in particular. It wasn't that long ago that Pitt beat us 3 games out of 4 - won 2 of 3 in the regular season and knocked us out of the ACC tourney. They have a first year head coach (came over from almost 30 years as HC at Harvard) who acknowledged they needed a lot of development, so I'll be interested to see how they look in a couple years.
If you want to see the reverse, unfortunately most of the women's lacrosse conference games were that way for the Hokies the last few years. Even this season they have a 20-7 loss and a 15-5 loss in conference.
It's a relatively new sport and the other ACC schools are fully developed top tier programs.