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The transition from the indoor courts to the outdoor surface was no problem for the No. 6 ranked women's tennis team (12-1, 1-0 in the ACC) in its 6-1 win over N.C. State (3-3, 0-1) Wednesday in Cary.
The Duke Blue Devils competed well but finished in eight place in the ACC Men's Swimming and Diving Championships and the University of North Carolina's Koury Natatorium. The University of Virginia dominated the three day meet posting a score of 780 on route to its fifth consecutive victory in this event.
The No. 7 men's lacrosse team opened its ACC schedule Sunday afternoon with a 13-7 loss to No. 5 Maryland. The Terrapins dominated the Blue Devils throughout much of the game which was played at Maryland's Artificial Turf Facility.
The men's golf team struggled to a 12th place finish at the Puerto Rico Classic played at the Rio Mar Country Club. Oklahoma State took home team honors with a trio of schools tying for second, two strokes behind.
Opening their season, the No. 2 women's lacrosse team dominated a pair of opponents over the weekend, generating a tremendous number of offensive opportunities and keeping control of the game. The Blue Devils knocked off Virginia Tech Friday by a score of 16-2 and defeated the University of Maryland-Baltimore County Sunday 17-4 on the West Campus Turf Field.
After a major scare in the first matchup at North Carolina and a loss to Connecticut, No. 2 Duke (24-1, ACC 12-0) has been on a tear and hopes to carry its outstanding play into tonight's rematch against No. 6 North Carolina (23-2, 12-1).
Piloted by a second-place performance by freshman Ryan Blaum, the Blue Devil men's golf team finished in ninth place at the Mercedes-Benz Collegiate Championship in Ponte Vedra Beach Florida.
Mike Krzyzewski never liked the designations of forward, center and guard. Rather Duke's head coach just refers to athletes as basketball players with one important exception: "The one position you might refer to is a point guard if you have a dominant guy who's running your team."
After No. 25 Tennessee (5-2) and No. 8 Duke (5-1) split a slate of six singles contests, the outcome of the match rested on the doubles point.
No. 2 Duke (23-1, 11-0 in the ACC) came out of its locker room firing and never looked back in a 82-43 rout of Georgia Tech (15-8, 4-7) Thursday night in Cameron Indoor Stadium. The Blue Devils, who led from wire to wire, won their 35th-consecutive ACC contest.
After coming within a point of beating the Blue Devils in Charlottesville, the Virginia Cavaliers (10-12, 4-7) hung tough with No. 2 Duke (22-1, 10-0) until the last 11 minutes of tonight's game when a combination of strong Duke defense and struggling Virginia offense resulted in a 75-48 Blue Devil victory Monday night at Cameron Indoor Stadium.
In dramatic fashion, the women's tennis team won its first ever ITA National Indoor Championship Sunday with a 4-3 finals victory over the No. 2 Florida. The fourth-ranked Blue Devils move to 8-0 on the season with three victories over top-10 teams over the weekend.
The No. 4 women's tennis team crushed No. 34 Kentucky 6-1 last night in the first round of the ITA National Team Indoor Championships at Madison, Wis. The victory sets up a showdown tomorrow in the quarterfinals with Tobacco Road foe, No. 5 North Carolina.
The Women's tennis team coasted to an easy 7-0 victory over Indiana Saturday at the Sheffield Indoor Tennis Center. The match, as it was intended to be, was a tune up for the important National Team Indoors that commences Thursday.
It all came down to one emotional match and Katie Blaszak, a transfer from No. 8 Vanderbilt, pulled out the a three-set victory over Ashley Schellhas (6-4, 6-7, 6-2) to break a 3-3 match tie and earn the Blue Devils a win over the Commodores.
Coming off an overtime victory over rival North Carolina, No. 1 Duke expects another challenge against a struggling Maryland (8-9, 2-4) squad tonight at 7:00 p.m. in Cameron Indoor Stadium.
The men's tennis team put on a strong showing at this weekend's ACC Indoor Championships played at Wake Forest University in Winston Salem. Freshman Ludovic Walter, the second-seed in singles competition, was the Blue Devils' top competitor, losing to top-seeded David Loewenthal of Wake Forest in the finals of the singles competition, 6-3, 6-4.
The Wake Forest and Duke women's basketball teams have met 20 times dating back to the 1993-94 season-Duke has won all 20 games. The Demon Deacons will try to break the streak tonight when they travel to Cameron Indoor Stadium for a 7 p.m. matchup with the undefeated and No.1 ranked Blue Devils.
The men's and women's track and field teams started their indoor season with strong performances in the North Carolina Collegiate Big 12 meet Saturday in Chapel Hill.
On a night when Duke unveiled a Final Four banner and four talented freshmen played their first regular season game at legendary Cameron Indoor Stadium, the swarming Duke defense was the dominating force in Duke's 108-46 crushing of an overmatched East Carolina squad.
