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(11/09/12 1:14pm)
Florida State 2011-2012 season: (25-10, 12-4 ACC)
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Florida State 2011-2012 season: (25-10, 12-4 ACC)
2011-2012 record: 9-22, 4-12 in the ACC
At the Hokie Open Sunday, eight of the 10 wrestlers representing Duke captured winning records, while freshman Conner Hartmann and senior Diego Bencomo finished first and second in the 197- and 184-pound weight classes, respectively. This Sunday at the Michigan State Open, the Blue Devils hope to build on their opening-weekend success and win matches against top-flight competition.
In their last opportunity to make an impression in a competitive setting before the start of team play, four Blue Devils will compete against top-flight talent in tournament play this weekend. Junior Hanna Mar will travel to Flushing, N.Y. for the USTA/ITA National Indoor Championships, and sophomore Annie Mulholland, senior Mary Clayton and junior Marianne Jodoin will participate in the Kitty Harrison Invitational in Chapel Hill, N.C.
Just one game above .500, the Blue Devils entered the ACC tournament in search of a signature win to strengthen their case for an NCAA Tournament berth. An ACC tournament quarterfinal matchup against their Tobacco Road rivals, the Tar Heels, afforded them the opportunity to earn that win.
The first time Duke and North Carolina met this season, two second-half red cards doomed the Blue Devils to an overtime loss. Duke, which will need to make some noise to earn an NCAA Tournament berth, has its tournament chances on the line in today’s edition of the Tobacco Road rivalry.
Before the Hokie Open, Duke head coach Glen Lanham believed that the Blue Devils would surprise a lot of people. Saturday afternoon in Blacksburg, Va., they did just that.
The Blue Devils are doing things differently this season—and that starts with the Hokie Open. After months of wrestling their own teammates, Duke and more than 20 other teams will travel to Blacksburg, Va. Sunday for the first tournament of the season.
Meet Duke—the underdogs. The only team in the ACC to be winless in conference play, the Blue Devils lost in the second round of the NCAA tournament last year and did not even earn a berth the year before.
For the third year in a row, Duke and Elon tied in what has become an annual intrastate matchup. The two teams battled to a 0-0 stalemate Tuesday evening in Elon, N.C.
Some guys are nearly unstoppable. Elon senior Chris Thomas—the most productive offensive threat in Division I soccer—is one of those guys.
There is no disputing that Virginia Tech is the worst team in the ACC. Winless in conference play, the Hokies have been shut out by four out of the six ACC foes they have faced.
Sebastien Ibeagha went from a penalty-card machine to a team captain, and from tallying one goal in his first two seasons to leading the team in scoring his junior year. But the junior would not have become one of the team’s stars without tackling his early-career setbacks.
The Blue Devils dominated possession. They controlled the run of play. But they made one mistake, and that’s all it took to find themselves on the losing end of the game.
After dropping a 2-1 heartbreaker to No. 1 Maryland Friday, Duke bounced back in a midweek matchup with Presbyterian Tuesday night. Junior Alex Sauciuc tallied his first career goal as the Blue Devils shut out Presbyterian 2-0.
From leading Division I in scoring offense to shutting out nearly 60 percent of the teams it has played, Maryland has validated its No. 1 ranking.
In a strong defensive performance, Duke held Maryland—the sixth highest-scoring team in the country—to just two goals.
They rose, they fell and they have begun to rise again.
After playing five games missing six players, the Blue Devils will finally bring a full roster to the field this weekend.
While their classmates were completing problem sets and writing papers in Durham, six Blue Devils were playing top-flight international competition in field hockey.