Both lax teams prepare for tough games with Georgetown
(03/26/99 5:00am)
In a season where a national championship is within your grasp, you have to make a statement every time you take the field.
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In a season where a national championship is within your grasp, you have to make a statement every time you take the field.
The outcome in collegiate match play often comes down to one match. When the men's tennis team faced off against five of the nation's top teams last week, the difference between a good week and a tremendous week came down to one match, twice, as the fourth-ranked Blue Devils lost to both No. 8 Texas and No. 34 Texas Christian by 4-3 scores-Duke's first back-to-back losses in over a year.
CHAPEL HILL - After the men's tennis team suffered injuries to two key members, it would have been perfectly understandable if Duke finally had a letdown this season. But the Blue Devils are thinking otherwise as they continue their remarkable run to the top of collegiate tennis.
When Pat Kennedy left the head coaching position at Florida State for the same position at DePaul, he might have relished the thought of no longer having Duke in the same conference, having lost 10 of 12 meetings against the Blue Devils.
The men's tennis team went into Seattle relatively unheralded on the collegiate tennis scene, but by the end of the USTA/ITA National Indoor Championships, Duke served notice that it may very well be a contender for the NCAA title.
The 10th-ranked men's tennis team started the spring season in impressive fashion by handily defeating Furman (4-1) Wednesday at Duke Tennis Stadium by a score of 6-1. The Blue Devils (1-0) dominated the Paladins in both singles and doubles as Duke won five of six singles matches in straight sets and swept Furman in the three doubles matches.
When looking at the roster of the men's tennis team, one immediately notices that this team is extremely talented but lacking in experience. On a team filled with underclassmen, one gets the impression that the leadership role would automatically go to Jordan Wile due to his seniority on the team.
Coming off two draining games in the past week, the men's basketball team is hoping to start the second half of the ACC season the same way it started the first half as the second-ranked Blue Devils (20-1, 8-0 in the ACC) venture to Raleigh tomorrow to face N.C. State (12-7, 2-5).
Extensive training during the winter break paid dividends for both the women's and men's swim teams, as they showed marked improvement in their first meet of the semester against Virginia.
Playing in Philadelphia, Temple's women's basketball team is often overshadowed by other sports in the city sports scene. Yearning to be noticed by the local media, the Owls (4-3) will get their chance this Saturday when they go against the 16th-ranked Blue Devils (6-4) at Cameron Indoor Stadium.
The men's basketball team is hoping to carry its sizzling start over to the frozen plains of Alaska this Thanksgiving.
It was the good, the bad and the ugly-mostly the bad and ugly.
As if starting the season without both last season's leading scorer and starting point guard was not enough to give Georgia Tech coach Bobby Cremins the aches, he had to endure yet another Maalox moment only 10 minutes into the season.
The men's and women's cross country teams are preparing for the NCAA District III meet in Greenville, S.C., this weekend with the hope of making some history.
The football team is heading into uncharted territory this weekend. It will be favored to win. On the road, no less.
With all the possibilities that awaited Brian Kuklick after high school, few who knew him would have guessed that he would decide to play football at a small southern private school that won only two games the previous year.
The men's tennis team received a solid performance from its fifth-ranked doubles team of junior Doug Root and senior Jordan Wile, but it was not enough to prevent Duke from being eliminated early at the T. Rowes Price National Clay Court Championships in Baltimore this past weekend.
The field hockey team was dominated in nearly every offensive statistic yesterday against James Madison, but then again, statistics only tell part of the story.