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As the bracket suddenly flashed on the screen revealing Duke as a No. 3 seed in the upcoming NCAA Tournament, the women's soccer team didn't quite know how to respond.
The women's soccer team will try to do something Sunday they have not done in over a decade and no team has accomplished this year-beat the University of North Carolina.
The Women's 2005 Duke/adidas classic was a tale of two games for the Blue Devils. After sputtering to a 1-0 victory in the opening match against Alabama-Birmingham, Sept. 16, the Duke offense finally broke through and the Blue Devils beat San Diego, 5-0, Sunday.
The Women's 2005 Duke/adidas classic was a tale of two games for the Blue Devils. After sputtering to a 1-0 victory in the opening match against Alabama-Birmingham, Sept. 16, the Duke offense finally broke through and the Blue Devils beat San Diego, 5-0, Sunday.
The women’s soccer team enters the Nike Carolina Classic this weekend with the deserved confidence of a team that returns nine of 11 starters from one of the best seasons in program history. At the same time, the No. 12 Blue Devils understand that it may take time for their on-field play to catch up with their high expectations.
When Ralph Friedgen took the head coaching position at Maryland in 2001, he adopted a 5-6 football team which hadn’t finished in the top four of the conference in a decade. In the first year under Friedgen’s tutelage, the Terps developed a high-powered offense that averaged 35 points per game, fueled Maryland’s first ACC championship since 1985 and secured a berth in the Bowl Championship Series.
With three minutes left in Tuesday’s men’s lacrosse game, Duke senior Joe Kennedy chased a Vermont midfielder running the ball down the sideline and made a diving attempt to knock it loose.
When Duke and Maryland-Baltimore County emerged from the locker rooms at halftime, all the noise was coming from the Retrievers’ side of field.
Fifth-seeded Duke will have the chance to avenge its most disappointing loss of the season when it plays fourth-seeded Virginia today. The Blue Devils and Cavaliers will face off at 2:30 p.m. at the SAS Soccer Complex in Cary. The match is the second ACC Tournament quarterfinal game and the winner will face either Wake Fores or Virginia Tech.
Newcomers Miami and Virginia Tech could lift Clemson from the basement of the ACC. But in a league stacked with top-25 teams, second-year head coach Oliver Purnell will have a tough time getting the Tigers out of the league’s lower tier.
The Duke men’s soccer team was 11-0, off to its best start since 1982, and ranked second in the nation on the first of October. At the same time a highly-touted Wake Forest team was 3-3-1 and reeling from three straight losses.
The volleyball team is in an unusual position as it rigorously prepares for its non-conference game this weekend—because the non-conference game is eight miles down the road in Chapel Hill.
Freshman Spencer Wadsworth seems to only have one speed: fast. Whether streaking toward the net to poke in a goal or challenging the opposing defense with suffocating pressure, Wadsworth has established himself as an integral part of the Blue Devils’ team in only his first 11 games.
Freshman Spencer Wadsworth didn’t waste much time notching the first goal of his ACC career. Only 5:33 into Saturday night’s conference opener against Clemson, junior midfielder Danny Kramer collected the ball on the right side of the and sent a low cross to the near post, where Wadsworth poked it past the goalkeeper. The goal was all the cushion the stingy Duke defense needed to beat the Tigers (3-2, 0-1 in the ACC) and extend the Blue Devils’ (7-0, 1-0) undefeated and unscored-upon streak to seven games.
Wake Forest running back Chris Barclay wants to be a physical therapist after college, but this season he’ll be breaking ankles rather than mending them. Described as a “shake and bake” back by running backs coach Billy Mitchell, Barclay looks to be a star in one of the ACC’s most talented backfields. Barclay, who led the ACC in rushing last season with 99.3 yards per game, is only one third of the Wake Forest running attack. The three “B’s”—Cornelius Birgs, D’Angelo Bryant and Barclay—led the ACC’s top rushing offense last season and are all returning for a Wake Forest team that went 5-7 and 3-5 in the ACC in 2003. Blocking for the Demon Deacon trio is an offensive line anchored by senior Blake Lingruen, who is on the preseason watch list for the Outland Trophy—the award for the nation’s best lineman. “Blake is our leader on offense right now. He’s our bell cow,” said head coach Jim Grobe, now in his 4th season at the helm. Although the Demon Deacons led the ACC in rushing in 2003, their mediocre pass offense, averaging only 151.5 yards per game, prevented them from being one of the top teams in the league. Coaches, however, describe this year’s receiving corps as one of the team’s strengths. Last season, Jason Anderson was one of the top wide receivers in the ACC and Willie Idlette was a freshman All-American at the all purpose position. He will step into a primary receiving role this season. Wake Forest will have to rely on their offense to put up big numbers, as defense remains the biggest question mark going into 2004. The defense includes eight returning starters from last year’s team, but they ranked second to last in the conference in total defense, pass defense and rushing defense. “Many of the guys we’re asking to play right now do not have a lot of game experience,” Grobe said. “I like what we’re doing structure-wise; it’s just finding the right guys to play it.” Senior cornerback Eric King, who says he models his game after NFL star Champ Bailey, is a bright spot on defense. The 2003 team MVP, King was the first Wake Forest defensive back to be named first team All-ACC since 1987. “King is just a great player and he had a great spring. We take him for granted sometimes because he is so dependable,” Grobe said. The Demon Deacons will have their work cut out this year as the face four opponents in the preseason top 25 including fifth-ranked Florida State. They will also finish the regular season with a trip to the Orange Bowl to play ACC newcomer and perennial national powerhouse Miami. Wake Forest plays Duke on October 30. Last season the Demon Deacons embarrassed Duke on homecoming, leading to the dismissal of head coach Carl Franks.
Before a large crowd Friday night, the men’s soccer team played its final exhibition match against the 18th-ranked Connecticut Huskies. Much of the game was a stalemate, as neither team was able to score until the last seven minutes. In dramatic fashion, Blake Camp tied the game at one goal apiece with only eight seconds remaining when his penalty kick slid under an outstretched UConn goalie.
