FCA all-star games
Christiansburg’s Austin Brown pumped in 20 points in for the East squad in Saturday’s Fellowship of Christian Athletes all-start basketball game held at Pulaski County High School. The West squad outscored the East for a 120-114 win in double overtime.
The contest featured 37 three-point goals. Coles Meadows led the East with 38 points. Pulaski’s C.C. Grubb led the West with 25 points.
Christiansburg’s Deangelo Ruff added 12 points for the East, while Dakota Smith of Dayspring had nne.
In the girls’ all-star game, the West squad used size and depth along with balance scoring to down the East 70-33.
Blacksburg’s Tori Schimozono and Eastern Montgomery’s Taylor Spence, each scored five points for the East girls’ squad.
Nazieblo earns All-American
Virginia Senior Klaudia Nazieblo earned All-American honorable mention honors in the 200 fly for the fourth time in her career on Saturday during the final day of the 2018 NCAA Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships at McCorkle Pavilion.
Nazieblo claimed 14th in the 200 Butterfly with a time of 1:54.69, just 100th of a second off her Virginia Tech record setting time of 1:56.68. With the event she added her seventh overall All-American recognition of her four-year career and her third of this year’s NCAAs.
Chloe Hicks was 38th in the 200 back with a time of 1:55.33. On the boards, Ashlynn Peters was 23rd on the platform with a score of 236.70 while Ashley Buchter finished 42nd with a tally of 204.30.
Haught places at NCAAs
Redshirt senior Jared Haught, the No. 3 seed and the Virginia Tech wrestling program’s second-ever national finalist, dropped a heartbreaking 3-1 decision to the four seed Michael Macchiavello of NC State in the 197-pound title match at the NCAA Championships on Saturday night at Quicken Loans Arena.
Haught leaves Virginia Tech as a three-time All-American, only the fourth Hokie wrestler to accomplish that feat, a two-time ACC champion and a four-time NCAA qualifier. He had beaten Macchiavello in their previous two meetings but was unable to defeat him a third time in the final.
Virginia Tech finished eighth in the team standings with 47.5 points. It marked the program’s sixth consecutive finish in the top 10 at the NCAA Championships.
The Hokies had three All-Americans, its fewest wrestlers to reach the podium since 2014 when three wrestlers also placed.
All of this was accomplished in a season where Tech started five freshmen for a majority of the season and sent five first-time qualifiers to nationals.
