{"id":264729,"date":"2026-05-09T11:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T11:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/264729\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T11:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T11:41:08","slug":"how-to-watch-no-3-virginia-tech-softball-vs-no-1-florida-state-acc-tournament-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/264729\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Watch No. 3 Virginia Tech Softball vs. No. 1 Florida State, ACC Tournament Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virginia Tech<\/a>\u00a0softball advanced to the finals of the 2026 ACC Tournament with an 5-0 victory over Duke today at Palmer Park. The Hokies will play top-seeded Florida State, which advanced to the finals by way of a 9-0 blowout victory over Stanford.<\/p>\n

Virginia Tech did not play Florida State in the 2026 season; the two teams last squared off in the 2025 campaign in a three-game set at Tech Softball Park \u2014 a series the Seminoles won, 2-1.<\/p>\n

Game one of the series was a rather pedestrian affair. Florida State won rather comfortably, 13-4, and tagged Virginia Tech starter Sophie Kleiman for 12 hits and 10 runs in 4 2\/3 frames. In contrast, Seminoles starter Ashtyn Danley went for the full seven frames, yielding eight hits and four runs; the Seminoles also plated runs in every inning.<\/p>\n

Game two was a stampede \u2014 for Florida State. The Seminoles shut out the Hokies in a six-inning 8-0 run-rule. Freshman right-hander Jazzy Francik no-hit Virginia Tech for the Hokies’ first no-hit since March 9, 2018, against Syracuse. Francik allowed only three walks and was only worked up to a full count on two at-bats.<\/p>\n

Game three resulted in a 8-6 victory victory for Virginia Tech. Catcher Zoe Yaeger went 3-for-4 in the win, and the Hokies totaled nine hits against the Seminoles. Virginia Tech entered the fifth with a 5-4 deadlock, but right fielder Cori McMillan mashed a solo home run to give Virginia Tech a lead it did not relinquish.<\/p>\n

The Hokies have a 21-38 all-time record against the Seminoles; they lost 14 straight games spanning March 11, 2024 to February 20, 2021. Prior to 2025’s season finale, Virginia Tech had lost its last seven games to the Seminoles.<\/p>\n

Here’s how you can watch tomorrow’s game:<\/p>\n

No. 3 Virginia Tech Hokies (45-9, 18-6 ACC)** (46 if win) vs. No. 1 Florida State Seminoles (48-8, 21-3 ACC)<\/p>\n

DATE\/TIME<\/p>\n

Saturday, May 8, at 2:30 p.m. ET (TV: ESPN)<\/p>\n

STADIUM<\/p>\n

Palmer Park in Charlottesville, Virginia<\/p>\n

Here’s how the ACC Tournament has panned out so far and the matchups that have yet to take place:<\/p>\n

First Round (Wednesday, May 6)Game 1:\u00a0No. 8 Notre Dame vs. No. 9 Georgia Tech \u2014 Georgia Tech won, 13-3Game 2:\u00a0No. 5 Louisville vs. No. 12 NC State \u2014 Louisville won, 6-5Game 3:\u00a0No. 7 Clemson vs. No. 10 North Carolina \u2014 North Carolina won, 4-2Game 4:\u00a0No. 6 Virginia vs. No. 11 Pitt \u2014 Virginia won, 2-1Quarterfinals (Thursday, May 7)Game 5:\u00a0No. 1 Florida State vs. No. 9 Georgia Tech \u2014 Florida State won, 2-1Game 6:\u00a0No. 4 Stanford vs. No. 5 Louisville \u2014 Stanford won, 6-5Game 7:\u00a0No. 2 Duke vs. No. 10 North Carolina \u2014 Duke won, 16-8Game 8: No. 3 Virginia Tech\u00a0vs. No. 6 Virginia \u2014 Virginia Tech won, 3-1Semifinals (Friday, May 8)Game 9:\u00a0No. 1 Florida State vs. No. 4 Stanford \u2014 Florida State won, 9-0Game 10:\u00a0No. 2 Duke vs. No. 3 Virginia Tech \u2014 Virginia Tech won, 5-0Championship (Saturday, May 9)Game 11:\u00a0No. 1 Florida State vs. No. 3 Virginia Tech \u2014 2:30 p.m. ET\"\"Add us as a preferred source on GoogleFollow<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Virginia Tech\u00a0softball advanced to the finals of the 2026 ACC Tournament with an 5-0 victory over Duke today…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-264729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}