May 4, 2007
Sports Help Lift Hokies' Spirits
The weekend after the shootings of Monday, April 16, a sense of normalcy returned the Virginia Tech campus as one of its most important rituals — intercollegiate athletics — resumed.
The baseball team played on Friday night, opening a three-game series with the University of Miami, the first home sports event since the shootings. Although Tech was swept in the weekend series, 3,132 fans turned out for the first game, about five times the usual number. The
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