After clinching their first Atlantic Lacrosse Conference this weekend the Hokie unsurprisingly got the #1 seed in the upcoming national tournament.
Tech will face the Cinderella team Boise State

The Broncos were sitting at 6-6 before pulling back-to-back upsets of Simon Fraser and Oregon to win the Pacific Northwest Collegiate Lacrosse League tournament. Beating the number 1 and 2 seeded teams respectively may not be quite as impressive as it may seem though as the PCNLL has no teams ranked in the latest top 25 poll and only Simon Fraser receiving any votes (would be 26).

On Saturday, the Hokies faced a resurgent Pitt team, winners of six straight. The game turned out to be a relatively low scoring contest. Both teams were held to their 2nd lowest goal total of the year with the Hokies beating Pitt for the 2nd time this season by a seven goal differential.

Clemson was looking to pull another upset after beating Liberty 12-11 on Saturday despite being down for most of the game. The Tigers used a late game surge to get past the Flames and secure their shot at the ALC title.

In the finals, the Hokies started the game on fire with several quick goals to open up a 5-1 lead before halfway through the 1st quarter. In the beginning of the 2nd quarter Clemson closed to 5-3 before the Hokies went on another scoring streak and never looked back on to another decisive win 18-11. Tech beat Clemson 21-11 back in early April.

The game got a bit chippy at times which was capped off by the Clemson coach getting not just one, but two technical fouls called on him just after the conclusion on the game. I have no idea what he was saying the to the ref, and at first, I thought the yellow flag on the ground was there by mistake. The second flag came out and the ref went to the scorer’s table to T up their coach. I suppose with the game over their coach figured he had nothing to lose, and after the 1st flag he thought, why stop there?

Our Hokies look to win four games in five days at the MCLA National Tournament in Round Rock Texas May 9-14. The full bracket is as follows
#16 Boise State (8-6) v. #1 Virginia Tech (14-1)
#15 Texas Christian (12-6) v. #2 Brigham Young (15-2)
#14 Arizona (9-5) v. #3 South Carolina (13-3)
#13 Florida (13-2) v. #4 Minnesota (17-0)
#12 Cal Poly (8-7) v. #5 Clemson (13-4)
#11 Grand Canyon (7-6) v. #6 Liberty (10-4)
#10 Boston College (9-5) v. #7 USC (12-4)
#9 Concordia-Irvine (13-2) v. #8 Georgia Tech (13-3)

The team has to fund their own travel expenses so if you are able to help them out, it would be greatly appreciated.