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In any given regatta, the varsity eight is usually the most anticipated race of the day. Eight rowers and one coxswain race with the pride of the program weighing on their oars.
Living up to its first national ranking, the 17th-ranked Duke rowing team outpaced the Cal Cup field at the 29th annual San Diego Crew Classic for its first-ever win in the event.
Cruising to wins in all five races Saturday, the women's rowing team found the weather to be its greatest opponent at Lake Lanier in Gainesville, Ga.
Last weekend, a member of the Duke rowing program made history in an unlikely location.
In Mike Dunleavy's first two years as a Blue Devil, fans would be hard-pressed to describe him as anything more than slender. Yet at 220 lbs., with a career-high 27 points, Dunleavy looked anything but diminutive Sunday night.
It took a one-point loss to unranked Florida State to finally fire up the reigning national champions. Amid the snarls and shouted comments directed toward Georgia Tech Thursday night, the Blue Devils finally found their intensity.
Touted as the best backcourt in the country, it usually consists of sophomore sensation Chris Duhon running the point so that National Player of the Year candidate Jason Williams can rain threes on the competition.
Fresh off Nov. 3's third-consecutive Head of the Chattahoochee title, the Duke women's rowing team headed to Charlottesville, Va., for the Rivanna Romp, for its strongest overall showing ever at the event.
For Paul Hewitt and the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets, this season is all about surviving the fatal fives.
On a sunny Sunday afternoon, a day after the rain and No. 1 Maryland poured down on 13th-ranked Duke, the Blue Devils avenged Saturday's loss with a 7-0 drubbing of Davidson.
Last season, the injury-prone Blue Devils often found themselves outscored and outhustled by teams with deeper rosters. To combat the frequent stress fractures that always seem to accompany playing on turf, coach Liz Tchou looked no farther than her players' feet for answers.
Last season Duke field hockey failed to break into the win column until its fifth matchup. This season 10th-ranked Duke met both of its weekend opponents with a new sense of purpose and posted the Blue Devils' first shutout in a season opener since 1992.
After North Carolina's symbolic ACC regular-season dethroning Sunday, the Tar Heels began to ready themselves for the next round of ACC competition.
Saturday-Duke and 54 other teams from around the country traveled to Oak Ridge, Tenn., to compete in the Southern Intercollegiates.
After a disappointing 3-12-1 (0-5 in the ACC) season, the Duke wrestling team traveled to the ACC Championships at Maryland on Saturday to try for redemption.
This Saturday morning the women's crew team traveled to Chapel Hill to take on the Tar Heels on their home water.
The number 13 is usually associated with good or bad luck, depending on which team you play for. For Georgia Tech's Danielle Donehew, 13 was the lucky number of her game-high first-half points, but for Tech coach Agnes Berenato, 13 signified the number of consecutive games the Yellow Jackets have lost to the Blue Devils.
The Blue Devils traveled to Wake Forest Saturday weighed down by a load of disadvantages that proved too heavy for the 10th-ranked squad.
by Christina Petersen
