BLACKSBURG – Virginia Tech captured its fourth home victory of the season Tuesday afternoon, defeating Queens 20-10 in a non-conference matchup.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Queens attacked quickly, slipping their first goal of the game past goalie Malie Follet<\/a> just 58 seconds into play. The teams traded goals throughout the remainder of the first quarter, with the Royals leading 5-4 going into the second.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Hokies responded with energy to open the next frame, scoring three unanswered goals. Tech carried that lead into the halftime break, holding a close two-goal advantage, 8-6.<\/p>\n Early in the second half, Queens managed to find their footing and sneak in their seventh goal of the game. In response, defender Zoee Stencil<\/a> capitalized on a fast break, scoring her first career goal to extend the Tech lead to 9-7.\u00a0<\/p>\n Virginia Tech pulled away in the final 15 minutes, erupting for nine goals in dominant fashion to secure their fourth home victory and to remain undefeated against non-conference opponents at home in the 2026 season.<\/p>\n Junior attacker Cassandra Montgomery<\/a> led the Hokies with four goals. Sarah Murrell<\/a>, Mia Pozzi<\/a>, Lauren Render<\/a>, and Reese Wallich<\/a> each recorded hat tricks, while Sophia Trahan<\/a> added two goals. Kamryn Henson<\/a> and Zoee Stencil<\/a> also scored.<\/p>\n Pozzi also matched her career-high in draw controls, with 15.<\/p>\n UP NEXT<\/p>\n Virginia Tech travels to Tallahassee to take on the Florida State Seminoles on Saturday, March 14. First draw is set for 11 a.m. Coverage is available through ACCNX.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BLACKSBURG – Virginia Tech captured its fourth home victory of the season Tuesday afternoon, defeating Queens 20-10 in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-161095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}