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For The Blue Devils’ first NCAA Super Regional last year, they flew cross-country to California. This year, they’ve flipped the script.
Where Georgia Tech let opportunities slip by, Duke delivered.
On senior weekend, the Blue Devils showed just how mature their game is.
The Blue Devils’ 2022 season ended at the NCAA super regionals in Los Angeles at the hands of UCLA. Head coach Marissa Young and her “Team Six,” featuring two new assistant coaches in Sydney Romero and Olivia Watkins, enter this season ranked No. 15 and yearning to push one step further and clinch a trip to Oklahoma City. The departures of star pitcher Peyton St. George, outfielder Caroline Jacobsen and infielders Jameson Kavel and Kristina Foreman certainly left a massive hole in Duke’s roster, but the ninth-ranked recruiting class is heading into Durham hungry to continue developing the young program into a perennial powerhouse.
More than a quarter of the way through the baseball season, the Blue Zone checks in on some Duke graduates playing professional ball:
It might have felt like 100 degrees Friday in Duke Softball Stadium, but Duke’s pitching was cold as ice.
Sportswrap is your one-stop shop for everything Duke athletics, where we’ll recap how each of Duke’s sports currently in competition performed over the last week and give a brief look ahead. Here’s our recap for the week of May 16-22.
In Duke softball’s fourth year of existence in 2021, the program took the ACC Championship crown. In their fifth, the Blue Devils are one step closer to fighting their way to another.
Schedule changes and rain delays would not fluster Duke on its way to sweeping Pittsburgh and finishing the regular season with the second-best record in the ACC.
Despite the absence of head coach Chris Pollard from the first two games of Duke’s weekend series at Georgia Tech due to health and safety protocols, it was clear his rallying cry was not forgotten: Stay in the fight.
Duke has had a fantastic season so far, but only rarely have opponents put the team out of its comfort zone. While the Blue Devils faltered under the weight of accumulating missteps in their second meeting with Clemson Saturday, they firmly outplayed the Tigers Sunday to take the three-game series with a 7-1 win.
Duke escaped its three-game weekend series at Baylor with a tight loss Friday and a split double-header Sunday that was, to put it lightly, a mess.
To say it’s crunch time would be an understatement.
Home sweet home.
Neither desert sunshine nor massive floodlights fazed the Blue Devils this weekend, as they went 4-1 to start up their season at the Kajikawa Classic in Tempe, Ariz.
In their four full seasons as a team, Duke softball has improved by leaps and bounds, but so have a lot of its ACC foes. The Blue Devils battled their way to the ACC Championship last season, yet were ranked fourth in the conference this preseason behind Florida State, Clemson and Virginia Tech. The good news: Duke is as primed as it's ever been. Accolades abound for multiple of the team’s more experienced members who make up the core of the superb pitching staff and improved lineup, including Softball America top-100 preseason selections for pitchers Peyton St. George and Shelby Walters and infielder Deja Davis. This young program has shown flashes of brilliance beyond its years; what comes now is building consistency and confidence to prolong them in the face of big-time pressure. -Molly Honecker
They say the devil is in the details. But in Durham, the Blue Devils are in the details—and numbers.
As 2021 comes to a close, The Chronicle's sports department takes a look back at the biggest stories of the year in Duke athletics. Each day, we will review a major game, event or storyline that helped shape the course of the year for the Blue Devils.
After each Duke men's basketball game this season, check back here for the Player of the Game and more. Today, the Blue Zone breaks down AJ Griffin's clutch performance in the Blue Devils' first conference game and win of the season:
2020-2021 record: 13-12, 5-11 in Southern Conference