BLACKSBURG -- When Angela Tincher got Crystl Bustos to pop up to shortstop Jess Hodge for the final out, it didn't seem real.

"Did that just happen?" a shocked Tincher thought.

Yes, it did. The star-studded U.S. national softball team, in the midst of a pre-Olympic exhibition tour, lost to Virginia Tech 1-0 Wednesday night in Oklahoma City.

Tincher threw a no-hitter against the three-time defending Olympic gold medalists, who had won 185 straight games in pre-Olympic exhibitions dating to May 1996.

"I'm still in shock," Tincher, a James River High School graduate, said Thursday after returning to campus. "I don't think it's sunk in.

"That's pretty much as good as it gets, pulling an upset like that."

Outfielder Caroline Stolle, who had the game-winning hit, and Tincher said the win was the highlight of their lives.

"It's definitely something I will remember forever," Stolle said. "I will be telling everybody."

The Hokies scored off 2004 Olympian Jennie Finch, possibly the most famous softball player in the country.

At game's end, Tech catcher Kelsey Hoffman "couldn't believe it actually happened."

"It still feels dreamlike," Hoffman said.

The national team had outscored foes 1,475-24 during its exhibition winning streak, including 174-3 this year. The U.S. squad had not been shut out in any game, exhibition or otherwise, since a 2005 loss to Japan.

Wednesday afternoon, the 24th-ranked Hokies (23-9) visited the Oklahoma City National Memorial.

Wednesday night, they watched the U.S. team improve to 17-0 on the year by crushing DePaul 23-0. That game lasted only five innings because of the lopsided score.

When they took the field for the second game of the doubleheader, the Hokies just wanted to have fun, last the regulation seven innings and make it a close game. A win was not something they were even imagining.

The victory was especially sweet for Tincher, who was one of 32 players who competed last fall at the Olympic Selection Camp in Chula Vista, Calif. She was not one of the 18 players who made the U.S. roster last September; that roster will be divided today into 15 Olympians and three alternates.

Tincher wanted to show the U.S. team and coaches how good she could be in midseason form.

"I never really pitched my best to them [last fall]," said Tincher, who was an All-American as a junior last year. "This was my chance."

Tincher mastered a lineup that featured eight former Olympians, including such stars as Bustos and Lisa Fernandez.

"She was very focused," U.S. coach Mike Candrea said Thursday. "She was very, very dominant. ... When our kids start chasing the riseball, you know it's a good one.

"It's too bad she didn't perform as well at the tryout camp as she did last night. She had a lot better command last night than she had in camp."

Tincher struck out 10 batters. Her only blemish was a second-inning walk.

"It's probably the best she's ever pitched in her whole life," Hoffman said. "They were just swinging out of their shoes, for the fences."

Tech, which got six hits off two pitchers Wednesday, scored in the second inning. After doubling off Finch, a surprised Hoffman paused at the plate.

"I was like, 'Oh, I just got a hit off Jennie Finch. I guess I should run now,' " she said.

Pinch runner Anna Zitt moved to third on an illegal pitch by Finch -- the softball equivalent of a balk. She scored on a bloop single by Stolle.

"It was pretty cool," Stolle said.

After the game, most of the Hokies -- although not Tincher -- got autographs from their idols.

The U.S. squad will end its pre-Olympic tour July 24 at Kiwanis Field in Salem, where it will play a team of current and former Atlantic Coast Conference players.

Tincher was drafted in February by the Akron Racers of National Pro Fastpitch, and intends to sign with the team after her senior season. But Akron has signed off on letting Tincher return to the area to pitch in the July 24 game, Tech coach Scot Thomas said.

But after Wednesday, Tincher isn't quite certain she wants to face the Olympians again.

"I might have to say, 'I'm done. I'm going to go 1-0 and hang it up,' " she said with a laugh. "That's not a team you want to make mad."

The Hokies will get to relive the game when it airs for the first time on ESPN2 at 7 p.m. May 6.

"It's just going to be awesome to see how it looked," Tincher said. "Getting to play them, getting to be on ESPN, all of that was a great experience. And then to actually win? Ridiculous."