After a bye in the first round of the ACC softball tournament, the No. 3-seeded Virginia Tech Hokies took on their bitter rival, the Virginia Cavaliers, in the quarterfinals in Charlottesville on Thursday. Behind one of the most dominant pitching performances of the season, Virginia Tech junior Emma Mazzarone pitched a complete game, striking out 14 Cavaliers to lead the Hokies to a 3-1 win.
The Hokies got on the board first in the bottom of the third inning, when Addison Foster tripled and a Virginia
throwing error led her to score, making it 1-0.
Virginia Tech added some insurance in the bottom of the fourth when catcher Zoe Yaeger blasted an RBI double, scoring Rachel Castine to give VT a 2-0 advantage. Annika Rohs followed with another RBI double, scoring Yaeger to make it 3-0.
UVa made things interesting in the seventh, though, as the Hoos loaded bases, scoring one, but Mazzarone buckled down to finish the game and send the Hokies into the semifinals against No. 2 seed Duke.
