Lacrosse still on bubble, must prepare for Pride
(04/25/01 4:00am)
Despite last weekend's ACC tournament championship, Duke men's lacrosse team has yet to completely secure a coveted NCAA tournament berth.
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Despite last weekend's ACC tournament championship, Duke men's lacrosse team has yet to completely secure a coveted NCAA tournament berth.
Hoping to secure an NCAA tournament berth for the fifth consecutive year, the 12th-ranked Duke men's lacrosse team travels to Orlando, Fla. this weekend to compete in the ACC tournament against Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina. After registering key victories over Yale and Virginia the last two weekends, the Blue Devils hope to continue their terrific play and have high expectations as they approach a first round matchup with North Carolina.
Next fall, current high school senior Joe Kennedy will join the Duke men's lacrosse team, making it the fifth consecutive year a Durham Academy player will have become a Blue Devil. With his decision to follow in the footsteps of four Cavalier alumni before him, Kennedy further strengthens the bond between Duke and Durham Academy.
Scott Bross's role on the Duke lacrosse team is simple: Win face-offs. Bross performs this role remarkably well and he continued this trend against the Wahoos.
In a grudge match between two of the nation's elite lacrosse teams, freshman Mack Hardaker's goal with 12 seconds remaining propelled the Blue Devils to a 10-9 upset of ninth-ranked Virginia in front of 1,692 spectators at Koskinen Stadium.
In a matchup with serious implications for the standings in the ACC, 15th-ranked Duke will host No. 9 Virginia Saturday afternoon at Koskinen Stadium.
Duke fencers Ben Cohen and Andrew Mahen finished 12th and 14th respectively out of 24 saber finalists at the NCAA fencing championships.
CHAPEL HILL - Behind a brilliant offensive performance by attackman Alex Lieske, the No. 9 Duke men's lacrosse team (6-2, 1-1 in the ACC) jumped out to a 7-2 lead over archrival North Carolina (4-2, 0-1) last night and, in a bitterly fought contest played in a perpetual drizzle, ultimately outlasted the 12th-ranked Tar Heels 11-8.
In one of its most important games of the year, the No. 9 men's lacrosse team travels to Chapel Hill tonight to renew its rivalry against 13th-ranked North Carolina.
Behind the outstanding play of starting attackmen Greg Patchak, Alex Lieske and Mack Hardaker, the No. 11 Duke lacrosse team soundly defeated 12th-ranked Brown 16-10 Saturday, improving to 5-2 on the season. In leading Duke to its first victory over a nationally ranked opponent this season, the attack triumvirate combined to score 12 goals, including five each from Patchak and Hardaker.
Utilizing its collective frustration from last weekend's disappointing loss to Maryland, the Duke men's lacrosse team overwhelmed Sacred Heart yesterday, beating the Pioneers 19-7. Greg Patchak tallied five goals and an assist and fellow attackman Alex Lieske added two goals and three assists to pace the Duke attack, which looked genuinely explosive for the first time all season.
After two games against clearly overmatched competition, the seventh-ranked Duke men's lacrosse team travels to College Park this weekend to face the No. 8 Maryland Terrapins, a very dangerous squad.
Behind an impressively balanced offensive display, the women's lacrosse team began its season yesterday with a 14-2 rout of Virginia Tech. Twelve different players scored for the No. 4 Blue Devils, as they simply overwhelmed their opposition, outshooting the Hokies 42-14.
The Duke men's lacrosse team successfully opened its season this weekend, beating Drexel 10-5 Friday, and then following that victory with a 12-4 defeat of Butler yesterday afternoon.
The moral pretension that runs rampant in today's world is fatiguing. Every day it seems that more and more people wish to pass judgment on other individuals in the name of some self-professed obligation to uphold the moral fabric of American society.
RALEIGH - Duke's hopes of receiving a number one seed in the NCAA tournament suffered a severe blow yesterday, as the Blue Devils lost to N.C. State 69-55 in front of 8,000 hostile Wolfpack fans at Reynolds Coliseum. Although Duke led for most of the game, the Wolfpack (17-8, 8-6 in the ACC) used a 17-2 run late in the second half to overtake the Blue Devils (23-3, 11-3) and pull away for a double-digit victory.
This weekend Duke fencing hosted its annual fencing invitational, competing against Stanford, Notre Dame, Air Force, Ohio State and North Carolina-some of the nation's best teams. In their only home meet of the season, the men's and women's fencing teams struggled at times, as each posted records of 1-4, relegating both squads to fifth-place finishes.
WINSTON-SALEM - It was not Duke's finest effort of the season, but the Blue Devils nonetheless left Lawrence Joel Coliseum last night with a 66-58 victory, holding off ACC rival Wake Forest on its home floor. Unlike this season's first meeting between the two teams, an 81-56 Blue Devil rout, last night's game remained competitive into the game's final minutes. However, with Duke clinging to a 63-58 lead, senior captain Georgia Schweitzer made two free throws to seal the victory.
Over the weekend, Duke's fencing teams competed in their first matches of the new year, as both the men's and women's squads challenged many of the nation's elite teams in a series of dual meets.
Coming off a stellar performance in the ACC tournament, the women's soccer team (13-7-1) maintained its high level of performance of late, defeating Furman (20-3) last night 3-1 in the first round of the NCAA Tournament at Koskinen Stadium.