College Sports

The Virginia Tech women’s basketball will travel to Indiana for the 2013 BigTen/ACC Challenge on Wednesday, Dec. 4 at Assembly Hall. Game time will be announced at a later date.

Radford women's basketball head coach Mike McGuire selected Abby Oliver as his Director of Basketball Operations Tuesday morning.

Virginia Tech outfielder Tyler Horan was named a Louisville Slugger National Player of the Week by the Collegiate Baseball Newspaper after a weekend that saw him belt four home runs in a pair of wins over Marist.

The Virginia Tech softball team earned an at-large berth in the 2013 NCAA Softball Championship, as announced Sunday night on ESPNU.The Hokies will face future ACC member Notre Dame in the first round of the Lexington (KY) Regional and will be joined by Marshall and 12th-seeded and host Kentucky in the regional to be held at John Cropp Stadium on UK’s campus. Tech is the No. 3 seed and will be the visitors against the second-seeded Irish.

Virginia Tech Director of Athletics Jim Weaver has announced that the school will start a women’s golf program, which will begin to compete as a team in the fall of 2015. Women’s golf will become the school’s 22nd intercollegiate sports program.

Brett Self was announced as the latest hire Monday morning for Radford University head coach Mike McGuire's women's basketball coaching staff.

Tyler Horan, again, led the Hokies offense, but it was Mark Zagunis’ second home run of the day that sent No. 22 Virginia Tech off the field with 7-6 victory over visiting Marist in 10 frames at English Field in non-conference action Sunday afternoon.

Charleston Southern rallied for a 13-7 win Sunday at RU Stadium on Senior Day and took the series from the Highlanders in the rubber match of the three-game Big South set. The Buccaneers scored seven times in the final three innings and overcame a 6-3 deficit for the victory.

Radford's seventh inning rally fell short as it was edged, 3-2, by top-seeded Coastal Carolina in the first elimination game at the 2013 Big South Tournament presented by Musco Sports Lighting.