Progrums

In what can only be described as a competitive baptism, the Virginia Tech Hokies and NC State Wolfpack women’s soccer teams drenched each other in a 4-4 tie on a field more suited to synchronized swimming than sport. Ninety minutes of back-and-forth scoring turned the pitch into a slip ’n’ slide spectacle, with players half-running, half-cannonballing their way from box to box.
Each team merrily traded goals like soggy holiday cards, but in the end neither side could grab bragging rights—so they settled for shared towels and mutual exhaustion. The Wolfpack, ever the opportunists, “avoided a loss” by burying their fourth strike in a puddle the size of a kiddie pool. The Hokies, undeterred by wet socks and muddy hair, insisted that a tie is just two points shy of victory. Fans squelched home pleased to have witnessed an aquatic ballet masquerading as women’s soccer—proof positive that sometimes the best defense is just hoping gravity and rainfall do most of the work.