Seven members to join Hall of Fame
Duke’s Department of Athletics will enshrine seven new members into the Hall of Fame Sunday, Sept. 26, 2004. The class is the first since 2001 and will join 107 existing members in the 30-year-old Hall of Fame.
The inductees are: men’s basketball All-American and 1989 National Player of the Year Danny Ferry, former wrestling coach Bill Harvey, football All-American Cedric Jones, men’s soccer Player of the Year and current Harvard head coach John Kerr and women’s tennis players Christine, Patricia and Theresa O’Reilly.
The Hall of Fame is located in the Schwartz-Butters building, adjacent to Cameron Indoor Stadium.
Conference picks title game site
The ACC selected Jacksonville, Fla., to host the ACC football title game in 2005 and 2006. The contest, to be played Dec. 3, 2005 at 1:00 p.m., will be in the 77,497 seat ALLTEL Stadium, home of the NFL’s Jacksonville Jaguars and the Gator Bowl.
“ALLTEL Stadium and the city of Jacksonville will provide our schools with not only an outstanding facility in which to play but also an enthusiastic and progressive community that has always embraced college football,” ACC Commissioner John Swofford said in a statement.
The decision was made Thursday morning in a conference call with the league’s 11 Faculty Representatives. Jacksonville also a two-year option for 2007 and 2008.
National Championship rematch
Duke will play a field hockey exhibition contest against Wake Forest at 4:00 p.m. Saturday in Winston-Salem. The Demon Deacons defeated the Blue Devils in both the ACC title game and in the national championship match last season.
The Blue Devils begin their quest for a National Championship next weekend in East Lansing, Mich., at the Spartan Invitational. Wake Forest and Duke will square off on Sept. 11 in their only regular season meeting.
The Blue Devils return their top five scorers from 2003 and are poised to make another run at the program’s first National Championship.
Women’s soccer exhibition victory
The women’s soccer team opened its two-game exhibition slate Tuesday with a 4-3 victory over UNC Wilmington on the road.
Freshman Tara Davison scored the game-winning goal with 9:09 remaining in the contest. Sophomore Sarah McCabe, junior Carolyn Ford and junior Shelly Marshall also netted goals for the Blue Devils. A trio of Blue Devils played in goal.
In the first preseason ranking of 2004, Duke was placed 24th in the nation by Soccer Buzz Magazine.
Cargill reaches quarters
Duke sophomores Kristin Cargill and Tory Zawacki competed in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association National Summer Championship at Indiana University.
Both Blue Devils advanced to the third round, but Zawacki was defeated by the lower-seeded Georgia Rose 6-1, 6-3. Cargill won her third round match over third-seeded Ashlee Davis of Wake Forest in a third set tiebreaker.
The following day, Cargill lost to Vanderbilt’s Amanda Fish 6-4, 6-1 in the quarterfinals.
Home exhibition match
The men’s soccer team kicks off its brief exhibition season Saturday against Virginia Commonwealth at 7:00 p.m. in Durham. The team will play Connecticut in its final tuneup next Friday.
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