Virginia Tech News: Transfer portal interest, baseball takes down Louisville

The basketball transfer portal opens officially on Monday and there are already a handful of Virginia Tech players are are going to be in it. Last week, wings Jaydon Young, Rodney Brown, Jr., Patrick Wessler, and Brandon Rechsteiner. Young has already had a handful of schools reach out to the sophomore who raised his stock in the second half of the season with some strong offensive performances.

Young reportedly has heard from Davidson, Missouri, Loyola Chicago, East Carolina, Arizona, and more, according to The Portal Report. It's not surprising that he's heard from that many schools and he'll be missed next season in Blacksburg. Sadly, these won't be the last players entering the portal for Virginia Tech.

Baseball takes two-out-of-three from No. 16 Louisville

After squeaking out a 5-4 win on Friday afternoon, the Hokies dropped Game 2 on Saturday, 12-8, but Virginia Tech won Game 3 on Sunday afternoon, 11-4, to pick up their first ACC series win of the season to improve to 16-8 overall and 4-5 in the conference. It was also career win No. 600 for head coach John Szefc.

Jared Davis got things rolling on Sunday for Virginia Tech with a home run and he finished with three hits and two RBI. Clay Grady had three hits and also drove in two runs and Henry Cooke had two hits and an RBI.

Virginia Tech will be at Radford on Tuesday night for a non-conference game before a three-game ACC series at Wake Forest next weekend.

Virginia Tech on the field

• The women's lacrosse dropped a 14-13 non-conference match to High Point on Sunday in Blacksburg, falling to 7-5 overall with an ACC game at Duke next Saturday at noon.
• Virginia Tech's softball team had a well-earned weekend off and will be off until Friday when they host Stanford in a huge ACC weekend series in Blacksburg.