From the ACC to ER: Soccer star to appear on hit show
(05/17/01 4:00am)
When a Duke athlete goes to the emergency room, it is usually a not a good sign.
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When a Duke athlete goes to the emergency room, it is usually a not a good sign.
CHARLOTTE -- The improvement of the Duke baseball team this season has been clearly demonstrated in its better record and the respect it is beginning to receive from the rest of the conference. In fact, this year, the Blue Devils' new-look team not only extricated themselves from the vaunted ACC tournament play-in game, but also earned themselves a date against preeminent national power Georgia Tech in the No. 4 versus No. 5 matchup.
Going into the NCAA tournament with only three losses--two of which came to top-ranked Maryland-- and competing as the tourney's second seed, the Duke women's lacrosse team clearly understood that a second Final Four in school history was well within its reach.
Capitalizing on quick starts in both their first and second-round matches this past weekend, the Duke women's tennis team advanced to the NCAA round of 16 in Stone Mountain, Ga., which will take place today. After easily disposing of Campbell 4-0 in the first round last Friday and likewise cruising past No. 28 Alabama 4-0 in the second round Saturday, Duke (26-1) now looks to its match against 14th-seeded Texas (19-8) Thursday at the Lincoln Tennis Center.
CHAPEL HILL -- The Duke women's golf team won the NCAA East Regional in convincing fashion last weekend with an eight-stroke victory over Auburn at North Carolina's Finley Golf Course, but apparently, not all are convinced going into the NCAA championships next week in Howey-in-the-Hills, Fla.
For the second straight weekend, the Duke baseball team rebounded from a difficult first-day loss to win the second and third games of a series over a hated in-state, conference foe.
If you were to tune into last night's regionally televised Duke-East Carolina baseball game in Greenville after the first half-inning, you would have thought that the Blue Devils were going to pick up right where they left off against North Carolina this weekend, when they shut out the Tar Heels 4-0 Sunday in Chapel Hill.
This past weekend, the Duke baseball team demonstrated its significant improvement from last season by taking 2-of-3 games at archrival North Carolina after being dominated by the Tar Heels in last year's three-game set.
CHAPEL HILL -- While the Duke baseball team has had little trouble putting up runs in its last three contests, giving up runs has been a continual problem for the young Blue Devil squad. But yesterday in Chapel Hill's Boshamer Stadium, the Duke pitching staff and defense were nearly flawless, yielding six hits and zero errors to solidify a 4-0 shutout over archrival North Carolina.
After a weekend in which the Duke baseball team was only able to muster seven runs in three games, the Blue Devils knew they would have to score more to break their five-game losing streak.
No matter what Duke alumnus and Sports Illustrated writer Seth Davis says, as far as the Duke basketball team is concerned, Jason Williams will be back next season. And to affirm this belief, the team named its star sophomore, along with rapidly developing classmate Mike Dunleavy, co-captain of next year's squad.
Even though the men's basketball season ended with Duke's victory over Arizona in the national championship game, that was only the beginning of the celebration.
It is not often that a team can put up their most runs of the season and still lose a game.
Competing in one of the nation's premier rowing events, the San Diego Crew Classic on Mission Bay, the Duke rowing team finished in seventh place with a time of 6:46.51.
The Duke baseball team (13-18), which built a commanding 6-0 lead early in its game, held on to defeat the Davidson Wildcats 6-3 at Jack Coombs Stadium last night.
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. - When Shane Battier announced that he would be returning for his senior season a little more than one year ago, the rising senior emphasized that one of the reasons he decided to stay in college was that he still had "a lot of things to accomplish."
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. - Ever since he arrived at Duke, Mike Dunleavy has been overshadowed.
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. - You had to know it was coming.
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. - Duke repeated as national champions nine years ago in the Minneapolis Metrodome, but defending champion Michigan State will be unable to duplicate the Blue Devils' feat.
One week after losing the final, heart-breaking game of her career, Georgia Schweitzer finally has something to cheer her up.