SPORTS
With solid pitching, Elon wins 2
By Leslie Cooper | March 3, 2005Errors continued to plague the Duke baseball team in Wednesday’s contest against Elon University.
Errors continued to plague the Duke baseball team in Wednesday’s contest against Elon University.
Heading into the 10th inning, the men’s baseball team and Elon are tied 8-8, and it’s been that way for a week.
After a 13-3 win Friday and an 8-6 loss Saturday, the Duke baseball team fought its way to a gritty 3-2 victory over Army at Jack Coombs Field Sunday afternoon.
Head coach Bill Hillier was clear in his comments after each of the baseball team’s three losses to Cincinnati Feb. 18 to 20.
With the score knotted at eight in the bottom of the ninth, Duke reliever Danny Otero sacrificed a triple to right centerfield, leaving Elon (6-3) a fly ball away from a victory.
Despite ninth-inning rallies Saturday and Sunday, the baseball team could not muster up enough offensive production, losing all three games of its series with Cincinnati at Jack Coombs Field this...
The Duke baseball team looks to rebound from Wednesday’s loss to UNC-Wilmington during a three-game series against winless Cincinnati this weekend.
In a high-scoring, back-and-forth thriller, the baseball team suffered a 9-7 loss on the road to UNC-Wilmington Wednesday.
Despite a Maryland Eastern Shore rally in the late innings Sunday, the baseball team managed to close out the game 8-6 to sweep a three-game series this weekend at Jack Coombs Field.
Even with the loss of several key players during the off-season, the baseball team enters the spring optimistic after finishing with a 25-31 record last year, its best since 1998.
In its first series of the 2005 season, the baseball team (1-1) split a pair of games with North Carolina A&T (1-1) at Jack Coombs Field this weekend.
Sometimes, a bench clearing incident just gives a team that little extra push it needs to get going.
The Durham Bulls, two-time defending champions of the International League, quietly clinched a playoff spot last week.
The Durham Bulls quest for a three-peat begins today.
Although Tuesday nights are usually quiet in Durham, 7,014 fans packed into Durham Bulls Athletic Park to see the final regular-season home game and made plenty of noise.
Monday evening was muggy, and the effects of Tropical Depression Gaston could still be felt.
The floodgates opened up Sunday evening in Durham, but it had nothing to do with the weather.
As he has done several times this season, Matt Diaz carried the Durham Bulls (71-61) on his shoulders.
For the third straight year, students have returned to Duke to find the Durham Bulls (70-61) in playoff contention.