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Wrestling
The lead off, here has to be something worldly. Nothing gets more worldly than earning a Gold Medal in world competition. Huge Hokie Kudos to Mekhi Lewis for his convincing Gold medal performance at the Junior World Freestyle Wrestling Championships in Slovakia. It’s a major major major thing, folks!
Congratulations Mekhi!
THE WORLD IS ON NOTICE.
— Virginia Tech Wrestling (@HokiesWrestling) September 23, 2018
Your Junior World Champion at 74 KG...from the UNITED STATES and VIRGINIA TECH...MEKHI. LEWIS!!!!#Hokies pic.twitter.com/t9Ee8J0lfY
Just so everyone remembers how good this team is, we are reminding you.
Mekhi ⏩ #15#Hokies
— Virginia Tech Wrestling (@HokiesWrestling) September 24, 2018
Check out @FloWrestling's complete 165 rankings >> https://t.co/M8yHjhTlEE pic.twitter.com/mQxBC1ekeU
Volleyball
The volleyball team recovered from it’s home opening loss to Pitt with a big 3-0 victory over the Wahoos of Hooville
How sweep it is
— Virginia Tech Volleyball (@HokiesVB) September 23, 2018
Tech downs Virginia 3-0 to earn its first ACC win and half a point in the Commonwealth Clash!
Smith's double-double leads us to 10 wins on the year so far#FuelTheFire | #Hokies pic.twitter.com/ktEX9lAXF2
Going one up in the Commonwealth Clash salves the pain a bit in regard to the prior ACC loss.
Hokie Soccer
Women’s
Miami took a hit as the Hokie Women’s soccer team blanked them 2-0.
ICYMI: In Sunday's win at Miami, @mandykmcglynn registered career win No. 23, career shutout No. 17 and pushed past 4,150 career minutes played - all third-best at the school. #Hokies ⚽️ pic.twitter.com/AujMWIxs9N
— Virginia Tech Women's Soccer (@HokiesWSoccer) September 24, 2018
It was Coach Adair’s 100th victory, to go with the shutout.
The #Hokies ⚽️ defeat Miami 2-0 on Sunday giving Tech's @CoachChugger career win No. ‼️ Congratulations Coach! pic.twitter.com/9ZWoLkg1ma
— Virginia Tech Women's Soccer (@HokiesWSoccer) September 23, 2018
Hokie Football
We can’t really avoid the disappointment on the loss to ODU but there is lots more to recover from. Josh Jackson will have a fractured left fibula operated on tomorrow Sept 25th. There was no time table given but the medical information that we’ve gotten tells us that the process can take 6 to 8 weeks. That seems to be a real generality, and the coaches are currently unwilling to say anything further.
Ryan Willis is getting the call, and we all need to support him!
MORE ON QB RYAN WILLIS @CoachFuente likes the fact that @RyanWillis14 has previous experience as a starter and he preps to make his initial start for Tech at Duke.
— Virginia Tech Football (@VT_Football) September 24, 2018
STORY https://t.co/Iom6euBtwQ#Hokies pic.twitter.com/8TdLXA6i3Z
Coach Fuente’s postgame presser might go down as the most honest assessment of a team’s performance and the feelings of the coach and staff about it.
COACH FUENTE POSTGAME
— Virginia Tech Football (@VT_Football) September 23, 2018
"First of all congratulations to ODU. They absolutely deserved to win the football game. They played harder & they played better in all three phases of the game. I'm disappointing in how we played. I'm most disappointed in our discipline level." #Hokies pic.twitter.com/EeZF80okx6
It’s really refreshing to see this level of frankness about a performance on a contested field. Good on Coach Fuente. There is no equivocation, and certainly no excuses made.
That’s the way Hokies roll.