Elizabeth Kitley scored 25 points and got 12 rebounds, Georgia Amoore included 24 points and top-seeded Virginia Tech sophisticated to the Final Four for the veryfirst time in school history with an 84-74 win over No. 3 seed Ohio State in the Seattle 3 Regional last on Monday night.
For the seventh time in the past 10 Final Fours there will be a novice individual, and it’s the champs of the ACC, including another achievement to the finest season in school history.
Playing in its veryfirst local last, Virginia Tech (31-4) won its 15th straight videogame and will head to the Final Four having not lost in more than 2 months. The Hokies will face LSU in the nationwide semifinals on Friday in Dallas.
Kitley, the Hokies 6-foot-6 center and leading scorer this season, took over on the interior in the 2nd half. She scored the veryfirst 7 points of the 4th quarter and her three-point play provided Virginia Tech a 70-60 lead.
Amoore hit her 4th 3-tip of the videogame to push the lead to13 Ohio State pulled within 6 in the last minute, however the Hokies were almost best at the nasty line down the stretch.
After the last buzzer sounded and Virginia Tech was commemorating at midcourt, the sounds of “Enter Sandman” by Metallica roared through the speakers of Climate Pledge Arena, setting off an even louder celebration for the Hokies fans in presence.
Amoore shook off the scare of a prospective leg injury in the veryfirst half to scored 16 points in the 2nd half. She had a career-high 29 in the local semifinal win over Tennessee. Cayla King included 12 points, all in the veryfirst half for the Hokies.
Taylor Mikesell led Ohio State (28-8) with 25 points, however 19 of those came in the veryfirst half. Mikesell didn’t rating the veryfirst 16 minutes of the 2nd half priorto striking a 3-tip with 3: 35 staying.
Jacy Sheldon scored 19 and Big Ten freshman of the year Cotie McMahon included18 But the pressure defense that Ohio State utilized to befuddle UConn into 25 turnovers in the local semifinal was quickly dealtwith by Amoore and the Hokies in the opening minutes and primarily deserted by the Buckeyes.
Ohio State was looking to signupwith its Big Ten Conference partner Iowa in reaching the Final Four for the veryfirst time in 30 years. The Buckeyes revealed no hangover from its upset of UConn in the local semifinal, staying with Virginia Tech shot-for-shot through a extremely amusing and high scoring veryfirst half.
But the shots that dropped in the veryfirst 20 minutes stopped falling in the 2nd half. Ohio State shot 64% in the veryfirst half, consistingof 5 3-tip from Mikesell, however that dropped to simply 28% in the 2nd half.
Reporting by The Associated Press.
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