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(09/03/01 4:00am)
RALEIGH-- The No. 13 Blue Devils split their season opener at the Adidas Wolfpack Invitational at N.C. State this weekend. Duke (1-1) shut out Massachusetts Saturday, defeating the Minutemen 3-0. But Sunday, the Blue Devils were shut out themselves by Northeastern (2-0) by a score of 1-0.
(04/12/01 4:00am)
Ramsey Smith tied the record yesterday for most men's tennis singles wins in Duke history.
(04/02/01 4:00am)
The women's tennis team showed no sign of hesitation. In its first ACC match this season. The No. 2 Blue Devils (13-1, 1-0 in the ACC) defeated No. 55 Florida State (9-9, 1-3) by a score of 7-0.
(03/29/01 5:00am)
The men's tennis team finished off yet another ACC team yesterday.
(03/26/01 5:00am)
The No. 3 men's tennis team swept two matches in as many days this weekend. The wins against No. 23 Georgia Tech Saturday and No. 47 Clemson yesterday mark the 35th and 36th consecutive ACC regular season match wins for the Blue Devils.
(03/19/01 5:00am)
The keyword for the men's tennis team last week was upset. The No. 3 Blue Devils (8-3) dropped two games in four days against top-10 teams in their tour of Texas schools last week.
(03/01/01 5:00am)
When Tennessee's seventh-ranked men's tennis team comes to play, the home team usually gets scared. But the Blue Devils are not just any team. Yesterday, No. 3 Duke defeated Tennessee 4-1, first playing at the outdoor courts and then finishing inside the Sheffield Tennis Center.
(02/26/01 5:00am)
The Duke men's swimming team set several records at the ACC Championships that ran from Thursday through Saturday. The relay teams dominated as Duke finished eighth overall in the highly competitive meet in Charlottesville, Va.
(02/19/01 5:00am)
The No. 3 Duke men's tennis team (5-1) prevailed all week at the National Team Indoor Team Championships in Seattle, Wash., until they reached the semifinals.
(02/12/01 9:00am)
After easily defeating No. 30 Notre Dame 6-1 Saturday, the No. 5 Duke men's tennis team turned around and defeated No. 8 Illinois in hostile Champaign, Ill., by a score of 4-3.
The match against Illinois was one of the most difficult that the Blue Devils (3-0) have faced all year. No. 1 doubles pair Andres Pedroso and Ted Rueger lost their match against Amer Delic and Graydon Oliver 8-5, as did Duke's No. 2 doubles team of Ramsey Smith and Alex Bose, giving Illinois a point in doubles competition. Marko Cerenko and freshman Phillip King, who played No. 3 doubles, won their match against Jamal Parker and Michael Calkins 8-5.
In singles competition against Illinois, Duke came back and won four of the six matches in front of the large Illinois home crowd. Playing at No. 2 singles, Smith won (6-4, 1-6, 6-4), while teammate and No. 3 singles Cerenko handily defeated Delic (7-5, 6-3). Pedroso lost at No. 4 in two sets to Mike Kosta (6-4, 6-4), while No. 1 Phillip King lost to Oliver in three sets (6-2, 5-7, 7-6). Both Duke sophomores Joel Spicher in No. 5 singles and Bose in No. 6 won in three sets, Spicher (6-4, 4-6, 6-3) and Bose (6-4, 5-7, 6-4).
"This was a perfect weekend," Duke coach Jay Lapidus said. "Notre Dame was tough, but not as much as Illinois. [Illinois] was a match that pushed us to the limit."
Winning was sweet for the Blue Devils not only for the fact that they won, but because they won in front of one of the largest home crowds they have ever faced. One of the factors in the match was, in fact, the size of the crowd and the level of noise that the players had to deal with.
"[Illinois has a] very, very good home crowd that made a lot of noise," Lapidus said. "They have a very good vocal support group and large fan base; there were probably 400 to 500 people there. We're not used to playing in front of such an enthusiastic crowd. But it was fun for us to win in front of them and kind of silence the crowd."
When the Blue Devils were in Indiana to play against Notre Dame (3-2) Saturday, it was a different story. Cerenko gave Duke a 2-0 lead with a (6-4, 6-1) win over Luis Haddock-Morales at No. 3 singles. Smith and Pedroso captured three-set singles victories that capped Duke's win over the Fighting Irish.
Twenty-fifth-ranked Pedroso and Rueger fell in a tiebreaker at No. 1 doubles to 38th-ranked Javier Taborga and Aaron Talarico. In Nos. 2 and 3 doubles, Cerenko-King and Smith-Bose each won their doubles matches 8-5.
"We were just a better team than they were," Cerenko said. "It was just a stepping stone in preparation for Illinois."
The next tournament is fast approaching for the Blue Devils, who leave tomorrow to compete in the prestigious National Indoor Team Championships in Seattle, Wash. This is the tournament that will measure the teams that will be competing in the NCAA tournament in May.
"This was a good preparation for Seattle because it was an indoor tournament," Bose said. "We're all looking forward to it, this is what we've been preparing for. It is second only to the NCAA tournament-only the best 16 teams in the country get to go."
(02/05/01 5:00am)
Nobody would have guessed yesterday that Duke had lost to North Carolina only three days prior. Yesterday a confident, better-shooting and fresh Duke team defeated Florida State, 100-58, at Cameron Indoor Stadium.
(01/11/01 5:00am)
RALEIGH - Right before the game started, a quote was played to the raging crowd:
(12/05/00 5:00am)
For a freshman, Lauren Cornet seems to be settling into life at Duke very well.
(11/27/00 5:00am)
The women's basketball team triumphed again yesterday as it wrapped up the Duke Classic, winning over the Toledo Rockets 71-41. This is the ninth consecutive year that the Blue Devils (7-0) have won the Classic and the 11th time overall. Senior Georgia Schweitzer was named tournament MVP and was joined on the All-Tournament team by freshman teammates Alana Beard and Rometra Craig.
(11/20/00 5:00am)
There was rain, cold weather and standing water on the field, but the Blue Devils still came away with the win. Yesterday, the men's soccer team traveled to Columbia, S.C. for the first round of the NCAA tournament against South Carolina. With temperatures hovering around 40 degrees, the Blue Devils (15-5) prevailed, 1-0, against the Gamecocks.
(11/20/00 5:00am)
There were some unsuspected heroes in the men's basketball showdown Friday against Villanova. With all the factors going into the game, the second-ranked Blue Devils certainly had enough reason to win.
(11/16/00 5:00am)
Before the volleyball season began, coach Jolene Nagel could not say enough about her freshman class.
(11/09/00 5:00am)
Don't discount our quiet rivals up north this year.
(11/06/00 5:00am)
There was a sparkle in their eyes. Maybe it was the misty weather or the crisp night air. Maybe it was the fact that seven seniors were playing in their last regular season game or the fact that one of those seniors, Ali Curtis, needed only one goal to become Duke's all-time leading scorer. But the look said it all. Magic was in the air at Koskinen Stadium Saturday night for the men's soccer team that could not be matched by anything, and certainly not by their opponents, the Wake Forest Demon Deacons, as Duke defeated them 2-1.
(10/20/00 4:00am)
One would think that the men's soccer team (9-4, 3-1 in the ACC) would breathe a sigh of relief after defeating High Point Wednesday. But relief won't be on the minds of the Blue Devils until after they play at Virginia (10-3-1, 4-0) this Sunday.