Well, isn’t this some serious level of exciting? For the first time, ever, the Virginia Tech Hokies Baseball team has rolled through a Regional Playoff, to grab that championship level and advance to the Super Regionals. That fact needs to stand just for a moment because it’s a special achievement for a program that barely scraped its way above .500 in 2021, suffered through the COVID shutdown of 2020, and just finished a game below .500 in 2019. The turnaround can be credited to two people. First, due credit must be given to Whit Babcock, who as a former college baseball player at JMU, looked at the facilities and the staffing of the waning Virginia Tech program with chagrin and resolve.