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After a 13-year losing streak, the Blue Devils finally wrested the Victory Bell from its hallowed place in the North Carolina locker room with last year's 30-22 win over the Tar Heels. The Blue Devils will put the bell on the line at Wallace Wade Stadium at noon Saturday.
In front of a crowd that was a third Death Valley and two thirds just plain dead, the football team finally notched the ACC victory that has eluded it all season. But the paltry Duke fan base did not witness a battle decided by which team played the best. Instead, the contest hinged on which team made fewer mistakes.
Clemson is looking to secure its place as the comeback kid of college football for the second season in a row.
After winning five straight ACC titles, Duke looks vulnerable in a league it has recently dominated. Preseason favorite North Carolina and up-and-coming Maryland appear ready to snatch the crown.
Duke is looking to become this week’s Red Sox, this week’s North Carolina, and especially, this week’s Maryland. But if the Blue Devils knock off Florida State (6-2, 4-2 in the ACC) in Tallahassee on Homecoming weekend it may be the biggest upset of them all.
Duke’s swimming and diving teams suffered a disappointing loss Saturday in what might have been their only chances for ACC victories this season. N.C. State men’s (1-1, 1-1 in the ACC) and women’s (3-1, 1-1) teams defeated the Blue Devil men’s (1-2, 0-2) and women’s (1-2, 0-2) squads, even though Duke won a combined eight events.
Saturday night in College Park the women’s soccer team wished the crossbar was just a little bit higher. Duke controlled the game from the start but was unable to muster a goal as several shots slammed off the pipes.
Leading after 36 holes, the men's golf team sealed the Duke Golf Classic with a strong final round Monday. Duke beat North Carolina in the team rankings, but UNC's Martin Ureta edged out Duke's Ryan Blaum in a four hole playoff for the individual crown.
Down 7-4 and facing a pair of match points, Jackie Carlton and Katie Blaszak battled back to force 16th-ranked Lindsay Martin and Katie McGaffigan of Wisconsin into a tiebreaker. After the Blue Devils took the lead in the tiebreaker, it was Martin and McGaffigan who regained the momentum to win the match 9-8.
Duke’s star captain Casey McCluskey took a feed from co-captain Carolyn Ford and arced a shot over the head of the Florida State goalkeeper to score the Blue Devils’ first goal of the night against a tough Florida State team.
Trailing by as many as seven points in its second game versus College of Charleston, Duke (9-2) launched an exciting comeback, allowing the Blue Devils to extend their winning streak to nine games. The victory over the home team Cougars (7-4) Saturday was the final win a three-match sweep of the College of Charleston Tournament. Earlier Duke beat East Carolina and Georgia State, each in straight games.
In the first weekend of the 2004 season, the women’s volleyball team recovered from back-to-back losses to Loyola Marymount and Tennessee in the LMU/Four Points Sheraton Volleyball Classic to score a decisive 3-0 victory against Villanova (0-3) Saturday.
