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Men's, women's tennis compete at ACC Indoors

(01/25/00 9:00am)

The men's tennis team nearly made every other team a mere footnote in the ACC Indoor Tennis Championships that were held over the last three days. After having captured seven ACC titles in the 1990s, including six of the last seven, fourth-ranked Duke burst out of the gates once again, dominating the tournament at Clemson. Junior Ramsey Smith and senior Doug Root won the doubles title; junior Andres Pedroso fell in the singles final. "It was a good weekend for our team," Root said. "Everybody played well. We represented the school and the team nicely. We are definitely the class of the ACC." Coach Jay Lapidus echoed his star senior. "We used the tournament to get more match tough for the season," he said. "The conference, especially Clemson and Virginia, is a bit stronger this year. Nevertheless, we still are the favorites to win." Among the four semifinalists in the singles draw, three-the top-seeded Root, Pedroso and Smith-were Blue Devils. Not only did these players advance as deep as they did, but they played impressively along the way. The three combined to lose just one set over the first two days of competition, with the one hiccup occurring when Eric Jackson of N.C. State swiped the second set of his quarterfinal match with Root. Despite Duke's strong presence in the semifinals, the lone non-Devil, Clemson's Thomas Boneicki, emerged as the singles champion, defeating Pedroso 3-6, 6-3, 7-6(5) in a hard-fought finale. At one point in the match, Pedroso even had Boneicki cornered with a match point of his own, but the Tiger scratched back to seize the title. "I could smell victory in the third set.... If I could have capitalized, I definitely could have won the match," Pedroso said. "However, this tournament gives me great confidence for upcoming events." To reach the finals, Boneicki edged Smith 7-5, 7-6(3), while Pedroso pulled off a mini-upset in toppling Root, the 33rd-ranked player in the nation, 6-2, 7-6(4). In the doubles portion of the championships, the Devils performed just as commandingly. The Blue Devils' combination of juniors Ted Rueger and Marko Cerenko glided to the doubles final, where they met their teammates, the second-seeded tandem of Root and Smith, who are also the 34th-ranked team in the nation. Root and Smith prevailed and won 8-6, capturing the doubles' title. "We wanted to win after suffering disappointing loses in singles [yesterday] morning," Smith said. "We got two breaks early in the match... and we squeezed it out from there." The Blue Devils return to the court in New Jersey next weekend at the Princeton Invitational.

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2000/01/mens-womens-tennis-compete-acc-indoors-2001

`Try to be a good man, and the world will remember'

(01/19/00 5:00am)

I was seven years old when my grandfather asked me the question that would follow me around for the rest of my life. It's strange, what the mind sets upon to mark as the moments of your life-but when my grandfather, his voice strained and face worn by 40 years of sales pitch after sales pitch, leaned in close to me and asked me what I wanted to be, my first-grade mind clamped down like a bear trap.

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2000/01/try-be-good-man-and-world-will-remember

Duke raises banner; falls to U.S. national team

(11/11/99 9:00am)

____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>When Peppi Browne looked up into the Cameron rafters before the start of the game, her head cocked to the left, a smile formed at the corners of her lips and she watched 15 feet of blue and white history unfold from the indoor sky. "It was great," she said. When Peppi Browne looked up at the scoreboard after the final buzzer sounded some two hours later, her hair wildly splayed by a countless number of collisions with the floor, opposing players and her teammates, her body carried a soldiers' collection of nicks. "It was a battle," she said. The outcome had long ago been decided, years ago on college hardcourts and recreation blacktops across the nation, but for all that may be said of the efforts of a motley group of role players and freshmen, who 24 hours earlier were standing in line for autographs of the current opponents, it can't be said that they were intimidated. "I said there's nothing to be nervous about, nothing to worry about," coach Gail Goestenkors said. "The only way that they could embarrass themselves was to not compete, so the only thing I asked was that they compete. It didn't matter what the score was, it only mattered that it was competitive. That's what they did." And they did it by playing their own brand of game. Without the smooth controlled game that came with the Nicole Erickson and Hilary Howard led teams of the last two seasons, the Duke squad that takes the court in Cameron these days plays with all the finesse of a Steelers linebacker. Even when they're playing the best in the world. "They're just human, just players," Brown said. "They're good, but they're just like us." But in college basketball, they're all immortals, retired jerseys hanging somewhere, names in the record books. Already this season, Team Legends has shown what they could do to college teams, demolishing Stanford by 52 and No. 4 UCLA by 57. Yet for the first 12 minutes of the game, an ultra-physical stretch where all-out body checks were more common than hand checks, Duke's version of ugly-ball was stymieing the world's best. "After the game with Russia, they were more physical," Goestenkors said. "Tonight was more realistic of what we're going to do as a team. It's how we play." After giving up a layup on Team USA's first possession, the Blue Devils began grinding the national team on both ends of the floor. A flurry of offensive fouls, traveling violations and misdirected elbows later, the Blue Devils were leading 4-2 over three minutes into the game. And when Missy West, the unlikely bench-star of Duke's first two exhibition games, connected on a long three-pointer eight minutes into the game Duke led by four. But against the national team, it felt like 400. It wouldn't last, of course, with Krista Gingrich and Georgia Schweitzer on the sidelines in street clothes, the intensity couldn't last. Even when the Blue Devils remained tied with eight minutes remaining in the first half, everyone on the floor and everyone on hand knew it was a stay of execution. But for a team desperately seeking to find an identity in a team of question marks, it was a statement that a scrappy team could get the job done. And Goestenkors hopes that, with the regular season starting Nov. 15, her team will remember that after staring down Dawn Staley, CoCo Miller just isn't that intimidating. "I hope it helps build confidence," Goestenkors said. "After tonight, my team should believe it can compete with anybody in the country, and obviously they can."

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/1999/11/duke-raises-banner-falls-us-national-team