Virginia Tech Hokies News: Baseball sweeps, softball's ACC Tournament seed & latest portal news

In this edition of Virginia Tech Hokies News, the baseball team completes a weekend sweep, the softball team gets their ACC Tournament bracket and a former men's basketball transfer portal commit has a scheduled visit with another school.

Baseball completes sweep of Ohio

After winning both games of a doubleheader on Saturday over Ohio, the Hokies baseball team completed the weekend sweep with an 11-2 victory Sunday. Aside from three wins, Virginia Tech officially clinched a spot in the ACC Tournament in a couple of weeks with results in other conference games.

Ben Watson had two hits and three RBI against the Bobcats and Christian Martin also had two hits and drove in a pair of runs. After a mid-week game at Wednesday at Liberty, the Hokies will host Miami next weekend in their next to last conference series before the ACC Tournament. They will close out conference play the following weekend at Virginia.

Softball draws third-seed in ACC Tournament

After having their weekend series with Robert Morris canceled, the Hokies softball received the third seed in the ACC Tournament that gets underway Thursday at Duke. Virginia Tech will play sixth-seeded Georgia Tech at 7:30 p.m.

If the top seeds hold true through Thursday, the Hokies and Florida State are on a collision course in the semifinals.

Jordan Ivy-Curry to visit Central Florida

Jordan Ivy-Curry's tenure in Blacksburg was a short one, but it was not short of storylines. After the UTSA transfer committed to Mike Young, he declared for the NBA Draft while maintaining his college eligibility. Then last Monday, he de-committed from the Hokies and re-opened his recruitment.

Ivy-Curry is scheduled to visit Central Florida on Monday after holding Zoom calls with Kansas, Auburn, and Oklahoma. It is also rumored that he will likely visit Wake Forest as well.