Virginia Tech Hokies News: MLB debut, women's soccer wins & more

In this edition of Virginia Tech Hokies News, the women's soccer team remains unbeaten with another win, the volleyball team has a tough start to their season over the weekend, the men's soccer team returns to the pitch Monday night and a former Hokies pitcher gets called up to make his MLB debut.

Women's soccer shuts out High Point

The strong start to the season for the Hokies' women's soccer team continued Sunday with a 2-0 shutout of High Point at Thompson Field in a non-conference match. Virginia Tech, which improved to 5-0-1 on the young season, got a first-half goal from Natalie Mitchell before Allie George sealed the win with a goal with 27 seconds remaining in the game.

Virginia Tech returns to the pitch at home Thursday night at 7:30 with another non-conference match against Liberty.

Men's soccer returns to the pitch on the road

The Hokies men's soccer team will play their first road match of the season Monday night when they play at Kentucky at 7:30. Virginia Tech is 2-0 with shutouts over North Florida and UNC Asheville and scoring six goals combined in each game. A road win over the Wildcats would be huge for the Hokies early in the season.

Volleyball drops two out of three matches

The Hokies volleyball team had a tough start to the season over the weekend by dropping two of their three matches. After beating Winthrop 3-2 on Friday, the Hokies lost a five-set match to Central Florida Saturday and then dropped all three sets Sunday to Winthrop to fall to 1-2.

The Hokies will head to VCU next weekend for the VCU Invitational where they will play the Rams and Lafayette looking to bounce back.

Former Hokies baseball pitcher gets called up to the Show

Former Virginia Tech pitcher Zach Brzykcy was called up to the majors Sunday by the Washington Nationals and it didn't take long for him to take the mound at Nationals Park. Unfortunately, he was called on in the top of the ninth against the Chicago Cubs and was hit hard in a 14-1 loss.

He threw 26 pitches in 0.2 innings and allowed five earned runs on three hits and two walks while getting a strikeout. Before his call-up, he had pitched well in Triple-A for Rochester with a 2.04 ERA in 30 games with 43 strikeouts in 35.1 innings. He missed the 2023 season after undergoing Tommy John surgery in April.