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RALEIGH, N.C. – In his final ACC Championship, redshirt senior Matthias Treff didn’t disappoint as won his fourth conference crown and third in a row. The win got the Hokies started off on the right foot as Jaka Muhar also took fourth place in the event.

Treff didn’t waste any time in today’s event as he broke his own ACC meet record with a throw of 249-1 (75.92m) on his first attempt. That set the standard for the rest of the competitors, a mark that no one was able to match. With the win, he became the first male javelin thrower in ACC history to win four titles.

Making his Hokie debut, Jaka Muhar landed a clean throw of 223-11 (68.25m) on his third attempt heading into the finals. Unfortunately, that was the last throw that the freshman would make as he had an apparent injury on one of his earlier throws. He finished fourth overall after his mark was passed only once in the final three rounds.

Prior to the afternoon’s running events, Matt Hoogland finished off the decathlon with third-place finishes in the pole vault and 1500 meters. The redshirt sophomore, who started the day in eighth, moved up two spots to sixth and finished with 6,047 points.

Leah Nugent kicked off the afternoon prelims for Tech as she moved into the 100-meter hurdles finals with a qualifying time of 13.86. She will compete in both the 100 and 400 hurdle finals tomorrow.

With the 110-meter hurdles and the long jump on the docket for the afternoon, Jeff Artis-Gray followed Nugent’s lead as he also advanced to the men’s hurdle final tomorrow after clocking in at 13.82, third-fastest overall. His time would have been a new school record, but a 3.5-wind assistance will keep it out of the record books.

Right after the hurdles, the senior headed over to the long jump pit where he took a short break before beginning his second event of the day. Like Treff earlier in the day, Arits-Gray made a statement right out of the gates with a tremendous leap of 26-¾ (7.94m), smashing his own school record by more than a foot. Unfortunately for him, his mark didn’t hold up as it was passed in the fifth round. Unable to top 26-5 on his final two attempts, Artis-Gray finished second in the event.

In the 400 meters, Yvonne Amegashie was the lone Hokie to move on to tomorrow’s finals in the event after she posted a time of 54.02, finishing second in her heat.

When the 100 meters rolled around, it was the Hokie sprint duo of Darrell Wesh and Tadashi Pinder who added to their already full plates tomorrow. In the first heat, Wesh finished in second at 10.20, while Pinder set a new personal best at 10.50. Like the 200-meter final, Virginia Tech, Clemson and Florida State will go head-to-head in the finals as the Tigers earned three spots while the Seminoles snatched up two.

The Hokies grabbed a spot in each of tomorrow’s 800-meter finals as Amanda Smith grabbed the final spot in the women’s final by just over a half a second as she crossed in 2:08.32. Indoor champion Tihut Degfae finished third overall in the men’s prelims after winning his heat with a time of 10:50.13.

As the day entered the final two events of the night, Sammy Dow finished seventh in the women’s 3,000-meter steeplechase at 10:38.19. After a temporary delay due to inclement weather in the surrounding area, the men’s race was able to get underway. Tech’s Jared Berman took sixth at 9:06.23.

Heading into the final day, with plenty of points up for grabs, the Hokie men sit in third with 33 points, 26 points back of North Carolina, while the women are in ninth with 17 points. The men’s pole vault will open up things tomorrow at 11:30 a.m., after being moved from Friday to Saturday. Remaining field events will begin at either 1 p.m., or 4 p.m. Running events will start at 4 p.m., with the 4x100 relays.

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