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The third-ranked Duke women's lacrosse team traveled to Chapel Hill Wednesday night, and for 44 minutes of the game the team controlled the top-ranked Tar Heels. But North Carolina (9-0, 2-0 in the Atlantic Coast Conference) used a 5-0 run in the final 16 minutes to defeat the Blue Devils by a score of 9-6.
Chicago Cubs second baseman Ernie Banks once said, "It's a great day for baseball; let's play two." The same could be said this weekend for the women's lacrosse team.
While most Duke students will spend Spring Break on the beach, on a trip or at home, the women's tennis team will spend that time battling with three of the top 10 teams in the nation. The Blue Devils will travel to Las Vegas to take on No. 36 UNLV and then swing by Provo for a date with 10th-ranked BYU before coming home to face No. 7 Texas and top-ranked Florida.
Neither rain, nor sleet, nor hail, nor even snow could stop the women's lacrosse team from recording its third victory of the season, a 17-3 drubbing at Davidson.
If nobody is perfect, then this weekend the women's tennis team must have been nobody. The Blue Devils demolished both Harvard on Saturday and Georgia Tech on Sunday by identical scores of 9-0 to improve their record to 10-1, 1-0 in the Atlantic Coast Conference.
The Pioneers of Denver University traveled 1,437 miles to face the women's lacrosse team yesterday, only to be shut out by a score of 15-0 by the Blue Devils in Duke's season opener.
The outcome of the Atlantic Coast Conference Women's Tournament and the NCAA seeds that will result from it are about as easy to figure out as the viscoelastic behavior of collagen-rich tissues. Really, that easy.
In the red corner, weighing in with a record of 19-4, 11-3 in the Atlantic Coast Conference, the tenth-ranked Wolfpack of N.C. State. And in the blue corner, with a record of 18-6, 11-3 in the ACC, the 11th-ranked Blue Devils of Duke. This bout is scheduled for two 20-minute rounds. The winner receives sole possession of first place in the conference. Let's get ready to rumble.
If only Raef LaFrentz played women's tennis, then maybe Kansas could have upset Duke on Friday. But since he does not, the third-ranked Blue Devils (3-0), behind a strong doubles performance, dismissed the Jayhawks (2-1) by a score of 6-3 indoors in Greensboro.
The Duke men's and women's track teams had successful meets this weekend in Blacksburg, Va. at an event hosted by Virginia Tech. In the men's division, the Blue Devils finished fourth, with their record moving to 10-3 on the year. On the women's side, Duke took third, improving its record to 10-2 for the season.
A future Hall of Fame wrestler, the "Nature Boy" Ric Flair, often says, "To be the man, you gotta beat the man." Well, this weekend, the Duke women's basketball team destroyed "the man." Whoo!
With 7:49 remaining in the game and his team down by a count of 78-47, what could Villanova coach Steve Lappas have told his team during the television timeout?
The Duke volleyball season, which ended with a 15-16 record, was quite similar to a mountain. Yes, another "peaks and valleys" sports analogy will be used. But this is quite an accurate way to describe the season. There was one very high peak that was surrounded by two deep valleys.
RALEIGH - The Duke volleyball team entered the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament in Raleigh this weekend with revenge on its mind. Unfortunately for the Blue Devils, Clemson was thinking three-peat over Duke.
It was a tale of two halves.
Coming into this weekend, the Duke volleyball team controlled its own destiny. A win over either Clemson or Georgia Tech and Florida State ensured a No. 2 seed for the Blue Devils in the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament.
A team may win in College Park. That same team may win in Charlottesville. But, as the women's basketball team showed last night, a win in Cameron Indoor Stadium is just not allowed.
CHAPEL HILL - As ESPN's Stuart Scott would say, "You know the Duke volleyball team is butter, because they are certainly on a roll." The volleyball team extended its winning streak to seven games this weekend with road wins over N.C. State and North Carolina.
The Duke men's basketball team is not the only one on campus that will be entertaining recruits this month. The women's basketball team welcomes high school senior Krista Gingrich from Lewistown, Penn. to the campus for an unofficial visit this weekend.
So far this year, the women's basketball team has played against some of the toughest and most dedicated athletes they will face all season-themselves. Finally, on Friday night, after two and a half weeks of practice, the Blue Devils will get to test their skills against someone else-Russia-Dynamo.
