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As the men's tennis team's season progresses, a tougher schedule is not preventing it from bringing home more wins. The No. 4 Blue Devils defeated 11th-ranked South Carolina yesterday in a tight match, 4-2.
With the men's track season already underway, the team has dropped hints that it could etch its name as one of the program's finest in a long time.
The men's tennis team is counting on the D's-doubles and depth-to help it advance far in the NCAA tournament. Currently No. 10 in the country, Duke hopes to climb even higher by the end of the season.
When the doubles quarterfinals of the ITA All-American Championships in Austin came around for the men's tennis team this weekend, the last thing on anyone's mind were the losses to the Southern Collegiate tournament champions two weeks ago.
Whoever said, "Winning isn't everything. It's the only thing," didn't consider the caliber of the men's tennis teams that Duke faced at its tournament this weekend.
The volleyball team, with its string of successes in two previous early-season tournaments, has one more opportunity to improve its record before the ACC season begins. This weekend the Blue Devils head to Athens, Ga. for the Outback Invitational-down to just four more matches before they begin the conference season next week.
Many times, the polls must find a little something to separate two otherwise evenly matched teams. In the case of the seventh-ranked men's lacrosse team and No. 6 Maryland, the difference was Duke's inexperience and youth.
Although favored to win the Southern Conference this season, the unranked Furman University Paladins were in over their heads against the Duke men's tennis team. The seventh-ranked Blue Devils improved their spring season record to 2-0 after a 6-1 sweep of Furman (2-3) at the Chapel Hill Tennis Club on Saturday.
Although they placed a mere 14th out of 16 teams at the Sheridan Invitational, the Duke wrestlers weren't disappointed with the final standings. The tournament, held in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, this past Saturday, severely tested the Blue Devils' skills because they came up against some of the best competition in the nation, including three teams in the top 10 and 30 wrestlers ranked at the top of their respective weight classes.
Junior Marc Chatelain went above and beyond his team's expectations this weekend as he placed 15th overall at the Stanford Joe Nelson Invitational.This placement was the first top-20 finish of his men's golf career.
The winning feeling did not cease for the volleyball team after its Atlantic Coast Conference victory over Wake Forest on Tuesday. On Wednesday night Duke traveled to UNC-Greensboro (13-12, 7-4 in the Southern Conference) where they overpowered the Spartans in a clean sweep, 15-4, 15-9, 15-12.
The field hockey team did everything in pairs this weekend in its trip to Williamsburg, Va., taking on Harvard (5-7) on Saturday and William and Mary (5-9) on Sunday.
Whoever said that freshmen need time to adjust to college hasn't met the class of 2001 Duke men's tennis players. This weekend, a quartet of Blue Devil freshmen jumped right into their collegiate debuts at the North Carolina Classic in Chapel Hill like they were veteran collegiate tennis players.
When the Division I top-20 field hockey rankings came out this past Tuesday, Duke's two weekend opponents, Temple and Old Dominion, were ranked 16th and first, respectively. Wake Forest, whom the Blue Devils defeated 2-1 on Wednesday, was 11th.
