Good morning. All moms love a good baseball game. Treat them to two this weekend! The Hokies play Saturday at 3pm and Sunday at 1pm. Happy early Mother’s Day!

What else are we covering into today’s edition, Hokies?

🥎 Shutout
🏈 NFL rookie minicamps
🦃 And much, much more!

🔼 Advancing. The softball team beat North Carolina 4-0 in the ACC Championship Quarterfinal game. Emma Lemley pitched a complete-game one-hit shutout and struck out six batters. Nora Abromavage hit an RBI single to score two runs. Cori McMillan had a two-RBI double. The Hokies will play Clemson today at 12:30pm.

🥎 Read more about the victory.

🔼 Camp Time. A total of 17 former Hokie football players are taking the field this month. The rookie minicamps include newly drafted athletes, undrafted free-agent signees and camp invitees.

🏈 See the 17 players and the camps they are attending.

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🤔 HOKIE TRIVIA

Did You Know? Men’s soccer player Yonis Kireh represents a small African nation in FIFA World Cup qualifying.

What African nation did he represent?

Think you got it? Scroll to the bottom and find out!

🟠 ONE BIG THING

Conference Honor. The ACC named Cori McMillan the Player of the Year. She is the first Hokie to earn the recognition since 2006. McMillan and Michelle Chatfield were selected to the All-ACC First Team. Kylie Aldridge earned Second Team honors. Emma Lemley, Jordan Lynch, Emma Mazzarone and Zoe Yaeger were selected for the Third Team.

🥎 Here’s more about the honors.

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📅 THE DAYS AHEAD

Friday, May 9

🥎 Softball ACC Semifinal vs. Clemson @ 12:30pm ET

Saturday, May 10

⚾️ Baseball vs. Mercer @ 3pm ET

Sunday, May 11

⚾️ Baseball vs. Mercer @ 1pm ET

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🦃 Game promotions schedule.

🎉 TRIVIA ANSWER

Answer: Djibouti!

🦃 Have a great Friday!