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The No. 12 Virginia Tech Hokies opened Thursday’s three-game series against Clemson from Tech Softball Park with a 31-4 record and nine consecutive wins. However, the Tigers ended Tech’s winning streak with a 4-2 loss on Thursday afternoon. While the Hokies outhit Clemson 7-4, VT left eight runners on base, which proved to be the difference in the game. Emma Mazzarone pitched the entire game, allowing four hits, four walks, and four runs, while striking out five in seven innings.
Tech corrected things on Friday, with a 9-1 win over the Tigers. It was yet another run-rule win for the Hokies. Virginia Tech scored first, taking a 1-0 lead in the first inning. The Hokies scored again in the second inning to make it 2-0. They broke things open in the third inning, when Michelle Chatfield blasted a three-run home run to make it 5-0.
Clemson scored its only run in the top of the fifth inning, but the Hokies responded. Kylie Aldridge hit a solo shot, while Addison Foster smacked a two-run double to make it 8-1. Tech would score once more to finish things off in five innings.
Bree Carrico got the start for Virginia Tech, and she was sensational, allowing only three hits and one run while striking out four to take her record to 10-0.
The Hokies finished things off with a 10-5 win over the Tigers on Saturday. Tech jumped on Clemson in the bottom of the first, and it was Chatfield again. She had a two-run single, followed by an Aldridge sacrifice fly to make it a 3-0 game after one inning.
The Tigers got two back in the second, and suddenly it was a 3-2 game. In typical Virginia Tech fashion, there was a response. Jordan Lynch crushed a two-run homer to left center, and it was back to a three-run lead (5-2). Annika Rohs added a solo shot in the fourth to make it 6-2.
Clemson added two more again, before Nora Abromavage hit a solo homer, followed up with a two-run shot from Aldridge to make it 9-4. Foster capped off the inning with an RBI single.
Mazzarone started for the Hokies, and she pitched 4.1 innings, allowing four hits, four runs (three earned), and three walks. She struck out four and improved to 9-2 on the year. Carrico pitched the final 2.2 innings, and she allowed two hits and one run.
Next up for the Hokies is a quick trip to Radford for one game against the Highlanders, before heading to Charlottesville for a three-game series against UVa next weekend.
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