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of the opponents. It is a long grind playing 36 game league schedule. Long grind. Never been done before and especially hard for a program climbing into a higher level. We have hit a little wall and will be nice to have a break from league play to freshen up. The starting catcher is close to being back, and think there is a strong chance Gerard may go some this weekend.

The elite left handed pitching has slowed us down some. The lefty out of the pen from State last weekend did a nice job controlling us, and needless to say, the UVA lefties pretty much shut us down all weekend. And UVA was clean and played high level defense.....they are good and we are closing a large gap pretty quickly. But they are a program that will not beat themselves late in the season. It is nice to keep in mind, when we lose, it is not always because we aren't doing something right, or we blew it, or are not good, or our coaches don't get it, etc. etc. We aren't perfect, but we are piecing together a nice run in a year where we weren't thought to be quite there. Please note, when we lose, sometimes the other dudes are pretty good and can do things pretty well..... We could use a breather at this point......

We have 10 Quad 1 wins. In fact we are 10-11 in those games. That is 21 out of 40 games as quad 1. We will have four of those left (in all likelihood). There are only NINE programs in the top 60 RPI that have more quad 1 wins than the Hokies. Only Notre Dame, Pitt, and FSU have more in the league than us....Let's see what happens down the stretch and hopefully with our roster pretty much in tact.

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Hang in there......mentioned at the turn don't pay attention to records of -- VTScoop 05/02/2021 11:05PM

Who/what determines/constitutes a Quad 1 (or other quad) opponent? ** -- MDHokie79 05/04/2021 5:46PM

Quads are defined by the RPI games so baseball defines them like such. -- VTScoop 05/04/2021 8:01PM

Thanks Scoop! ** -- MDHokie79 05/05/2021 08:49AM

Great post to put things in perspective ** -- Jbohokie63 05/04/2021 10:19AM

And look at the roster, we are LOADED with Freshmen and Sophomores -- HokiesBill48 05/04/2021 08:17AM

Yes, but is that "LOAD" talented to a high level? Time will tell! ** -- MDHokie79 05/04/2021 5:44PM

Hope so Doc ** -- HokiesBill48 05/04/2021 7:00PM

Good stuff. Thank you for sharing -- Hockeydad 05/03/2021 4:28PM

We definitely need Gerard back in a hurry... -- SouthFLHokie 05/03/2021 11:11AM

The preseason poll had them at 12th of 14 teams -- N2VT2 05/03/2021 10:41AM

I will go with....... -- 2hhoop3 05/03/2021 11:10AM

I think the ACC writers know where Blacksburg is. -- N2VT2 05/04/2021 9:55PM

Good post - pitching depth tells the tale in ACC play, especially w 36 gms -- vtfin91 05/03/2021 09:13AM

I knew UVA was better than their record -- VaTechHokiesACC 05/03/2021 02:43AM

Yes. What I wonder is why they have such a lackluster record -- HokiePoq 05/03/2021 05:56AM

They started the season in a hitting slump that lasted a while -- hokiepro 05/03/2021 1:44PM

They weren't hitting earlier -- VaTechHokiesACC 05/03/2021 07:10AM

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