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Virginia Tech gains pledge from defensive end in Baltimore

A victory by the Old Dominion women's tennis team at Iowa State highlighted Saturday's swath of action off the basketball court.
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COLLEGES

FOOTBALL RECRUITING

Mattheus Carroll, a 6-foot-3, 220-pound defensive end from Gilman High in Baltimore, committed to Virginia Tech’s 2021 class. He’s a 3-star prospect, according to 247Sports’ composite rankings.

Interviewed on Instagram, he cited the NFL career of Tech assistant coach Darryl Tapp, a former Deep Creek High and Hokies standout, as one of the reasons for his commitment. Carroll’s other finalists were Duke and Maryland, according to The Baltimore Sun.

WOMEN’S LACROSSE

William & Mary’s Belle Martire and Old Dominion’s Glory Johnson were on the Virginia Sports Information Directors’ all-state University Division first team.

Virginia Tech took two top honors in the coronavirus-shortened season, with Paige Petty named the Player of the Year and Kayla Frank the Rookie of the Year. The Hokies finished 7-2 and ranked 18th nationally.

Richmond’s Allison Kwolek, who guided the Spiders to a 7-0 record and the No. 10 national ranking, was named the Coach of the Year.

Other final national rankings included No. 1 North Carolina (6-0), No. 14 James Madison (5-1) and No. 17 Virginia (5-3).

TENNIS

Budding pro Sebastian Murillo, 20, of Norfolk won one of his three matches Monday in the exhibition International Tennis Series, matches that ESPN3 is broadcasting without fans on hard courts in Bradenton, Florida.

Murillo, a former Cape Henry Collegiate student, is ranked 1,525th in the world in singles, 30 spots below the career high he set on Jan. 13. His day featured four tiebreaks in the six sets he played.

He began the day of shortened-format matches by losing 4-0, 4-3 (7-4) to 18-year-old Stefan Storch of Australia. Murillo bounced back for a 4-3 (7-1), 4-3 (7-5) triumph against former Drexel University standout Sinan Orhon of Turkey, then fell 4-3 (7-3), 4-2 to American Noah Schachter.

Murillo led 3-1 in the first set but fell to Schachter, who was 14-7 in singles for Texas A&M in 2019-20, finishing on line 4 for the Aggies.