Inside HOKIE SPORTS | Vol. 10 No. 6 | June 2018

inside.hokiesports.com 7 Former Tech great on College Football Hall of Fame ballot Corey Moore, who dominated as a defensive end for the Hokies over a two-year stretch in the late 1990s, continues to receive accolades, as the National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame named him as one of 76 former players on the 2019 ballot for induction into the College Football Hall of Fame. The NFF and College Hall of Fame announces the class Jan. 7, 2019. Moore earned All-America honors in both 1998 and 1999, the final year of which he led the Hokies to the BCS National Championship game and won both the Bronko Nagurski Award (college football defensive player of the year) and Lombardi Award (college football lineman of the year). He recorded 60 tackles, including 11 for a loss, and 17 sacks that season. As a junior in 1998, Moore recorded 67 tackles and 13.5 sacks. He finished his career with 35 sacks—a total that ranks second behind Bruce Smith on the Hokies’ all-time list. Moore looks to become the eighth College Football Hall of Fame inductee affiliated with Virginia Tech football to be enshrined—Andy Gustafson (inducted 1985), Hunter Carpenter (inducted 1957), Carroll Dale (inducted 1987), Frank Loria (inducted 1999), Jerry Claiborne (inducted 1999), Bruce Smith (inducted 2006) and Frank Beamer. Beamer, who was selected for induction in his first year on the ballot, will be inducted at the 61st NFF Annual Awards Dinner held at the New York Hilton Midtown on Dec. 4. McFadden, Lewis to compete on U.S. national teams Virginia Tech wrestlers David McFadden and Mekhi Lewis earned spots on separate United States wrestling national teams with their performances at team trials in late May/early June. McFadden, a rising redshirt junior who won the ACC crown at 165 pounds and earned All-America honors this past season, went 7-0 at the U.S. U23World Team Trials held in Akron, Ohio in early June. He swept Missouri All-American Daniel Lewis in a best-of-three finals match to by Jimmy Robertson clinch the 79-kilogram spot. He won two matches to get to the finals, and in the first match against Lewis, he pinned himbefore ending things with a 15-5 technical fall in the second match. He clinched his spot on the U.S. team that will be competing at the Senior U23 World Championships in Romania on Nov. 12-18. Lewis, who took a redshirt year as a freshman this past season, competed at the U.S. World Junior Trials held in late May in Rochester, Minnesota, and he won three matches to get to the finals at 74 kilograms. He faced Iowa’s Jeremiah Moody and won twice by technical fall to preserve his spot on the U.S. Junior World team that will be competing at the Junior World Championships in Slovakia on Sept. 17-23. Lewis became just the second Hokie to make a Junior World Team while wrestling at Virginia Tech, joining Sean Gray, who made the team in 1999. Joey Dance also made a Junior World Team as a senior at Christiansburg High School in 2012 prior to enrolling at Tech. Two Tech baseball players taken in Major League Baseball draft For the 10th consecutive year, at least two Virginia Tech baseball players were selected in Major League Baseball’s First-Year Player Draft, as both Andrew McDonald and Connor Coward found themselves taken by the Cincinnati Reds and St. Louis Cardinals, respectively. McDonald, a Cincinnati, Ohio native who just finished his career at Tech, went in the ninth round with the 259th overall pick. During his senior season, the 6-foot-6, 240-pound right-handed pitcher went 1-8, but had a respectable 4.45 ERA, and in 54.2 innings, he struck out 67 batters. Coward, another right-handed pitcher, went in the 26th round with the 783rd overall pick and became the eighth player in the history of the program to be drafted by St. Louis. Like McDonald, the senior from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, just concluded his career at Tech and went 2-7, with a 5.19 ERA this past season. In 13 starts, he struck out 76 in 78 innings. Coward andMcDonald became the 27th and 28th Tech players selected during this 10-year run. cobbtechnologies.com| 800.346.8228