Homecoming pageantry enlivens campus, teams
(10/01/04 4:00am)
Seventy-nine years ago, Homecoming was quite different.
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Seventy-nine years ago, Homecoming was quite different.
Women’s basketball head coach Gail Goestenkors announced Monday that junior Monique Currie, junior Lindsey Harding and sophomore Caitlin Howe will serve as the team’s captains for the upcoming season.
After Duke led by a touchdown at the end of the first quarter, Virginia Tech catapulted into the lead with a second-quarter offensive explosion. As the Duke offense struggled to muster even a first down, the Hokies scored 24 second-quarter points and went on to win 41-17.
Duke beings conference play against Virginia Tech Saturday. The Hokies may be the ACC newcomer, but it might be Duke that is in for a rude awakening. The Blue Devils many lingering questions entering the game, a result of injuries and inexperience.
The volleyball team was perfect this weekend.
On the three-year anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, the Duke community commemorated the event with a humble ceremony that took place Saturday in the Memorial Grove.
Duke’s scoring woes are a thing of the past.
September 18, the Virginia Tech football team will become a true member of the Atlantic Coast Conference. That is the date when Duke will roll the welcome wagon all the way to Blacksburg, Va., and take on the Hokies in their first ever ACC contest. The Blue Devils are 7-4-0 all-time against Virginia Tech, but the two teams last played in 1984, well before the Hokies became a national powerhouse.
Monday evening was muggy, and the effects of Tropical Depression Gaston could still be felt. Only a few thousand fans showed up for the weekday contest at Durham Bulls Athletic Park and even fewer were left by the evening’s conclusion. Perhaps nothing could be more unappealing to the members of the Durham Bulls than the words “Let’s play two.”
As he has done several times this season, Matt Diaz carried the Durham Bulls (71-61) on his shoulders.
For the third straight year, students have returned to Duke to find the Durham Bulls (70-61) in playoff contention. With just under two weeks left in the regular season, the two-time defending International League champions trail the Richmond Braves by one and a half games in the South Division and retain a firm hold on the league’s wild card spot. Such success was practically unfathomable back in mid-July, when a combined record of 26-31 in the months of May and June left the Bulls in an unfavorable position to qualify for postseason play.
Adogwa has been a spark plug in the Duke offense for the past two seasons, and this senior from Trinidad is not afraid to admit that he measures success in goals. The speedy forward learned to play soccer on prep school and club teams in Trinidad after moving from Nigeria and has excelled as a Blue Devil.
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After competing in three of the USGA’s most prestigious nationwide tournaments and enjoying a summer of unprecedented success, junior Nathan Smith has returned to Durham to resume his studies and prepare for the 2005 collegiate season. Monday and Tuesday, the Santa Cruz native reprised his appearances in the U.S. Open and U.S. Public Links with a strong showing at the U.S. Amateur Championship at the Winged Foot Golf Club in Mamaroneck, N.Y., where he fell just short of advancing to the match play rounds of competition.
This summer could very well be remembered as the most exciting in the men's golf team's history.
NEW YORK -- Although posterity will remember the 2004 U.S. Open for the thrilling final day showdown between Phil Mickelson and Retief Goosen, the friends and family of Duke junior Nathan Smith will recall the 104th Open as a crowning moment in the Santa Cruz, Calif., native's budding golf career.
NEW YORK -- Rarely is a Duke student-athlete afforded the chance to compete against the best competition his sport has to offer. Certainly, Blue Devils graduate and move on to various professional leagues, but it's only after they leave the world of academia that they test their mettle against the world's best.
WEST POINT, N.Y. -- With a 5-7 record that ensured elimination from any further postseason play, the 2004 men's lacrosse team (5-8) convened for the final time Saturday at West Point's historic Michie Stadium. There, on the same field that hosted back-to-back-to-back NCAA football champions from 1944-1946, and in front of a record 1,542 fans, the Blue Devils lost to No. 14 Army (10-4) in a 13-7 contest that could be employed as a metaphor for the Duke's entire 2004 campaign--the Blue Devils hung tough until halftime, and only trailed 3-2 at the break but faded down the stretch.
With 12 minutes remaining in its game against No. 3 Maryland (10-2, 5-0 in the ACC), it appeared as if the No. 16 men's lacrosse team (4-7, 0-4 in the ACC) could once again achieve the impossible. A goal by Duke attacker Dan Flannery had just leveled the score at 7-7, and, for a moment, it appeared as if the Blue Devils had the momentum to topple the top-seeded Terrapins, just as they had done in the 2003 ACC Tournament.
RALEIGH -- With her team down 3-2, and her opponent, Clemson's Maria Brito, up 6-5 in the final set and one point away from winning the match, Julia Smith needed a miraculous second serve to stave off elimination. Unfortunately, divine intervention was not in Duke's favor Sunday--the serve slammed into the net, and a volley of cheers erupted from the Clemson squad upon realizing that they had just become ACC Champions.