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It is “the beautiful game,” but even a dedicated soccer fan could be forgiven for struggling to find much offensive beauty Wednesday night.
April 3, Duke lost 6-1 to then-No. 11 East Carolina to drop below .500 and suffer its fourth consecutive loss as part of a dismal 2-10 stretch.
In Montgomery County, Md., the public middle schools don’t allow baseball, but do field boys and girls softball teams.
For the fourth time since 2015 and the third year in a row, the Blue Devils will tee off at the final weekend of the season.
Last Saturday, Duke hung around with No. 1 Boston College for the first half of the game and trailed by just three at the half but was doomed by an offensive explosion from the Eagles in the second half.
Kyle Gallagher was due.
The second-ever “Battle in the Bull City” may not have turned out as close as the 2-1 barn-burner between these two teams in 2017, but served its purpose well for two squads looking to make some adjustments as one begins its season and the other heads into the home stretch of its own.
In the past several weeks, Duke has limped through a brutal stretch of missed opportunities and bad breaks. Squaring off against a professional team ahead of yet another busy week would hardly seem to be the optimal situation for the Blue Devils, but the chance to return to familiar turf and let loose against one of the most recognizable minor league teams in the country could be the break they need.
The Duke softball team is in just its second season, but one ACC school is likely tired of facing them already after dropping their second series in consecutive years against a young Blue Devils team.
On Tuesday, the Blue Devils will host Wake Forest in their final contest at Cameron Indoor Stadium of the season. The Blue Zone looks at a key player for each team:
Duke likely won’t get a chance for revenge against High Point after its loss to the Panthers earlier this season, but in their victory Friday night against another member of the Southern Conference, the Blue Devils demonstrated for the third game in a row they are putting that humbling defeat far in the rearview mirror.
Hall of Fame manager and player Casey Stengel once famously quipped, “There are three things you can do in a baseball game: you can win, you can lose, or it can rain.”
For a team in search of its identity early in the year, a return home after a road trip is usually a chance to reassess, recover and retake control back in familiar territory.
With less than a minute remaining in the first half and Duke trailing unranked High Point by a goal, Blue Devils head coach John Danowski called a timeout to set up one more play before the break and give Duke a chance to have some momentum after an ugly start to the game.
Last season, Duke reached the sport’s highest stage for the first time since 2014 before coming up just three goals short of a national championship.
When Tre Jones hit the deck during Duke’s loss to Syracuse last week, Blue Devil fans everywhere held their collective breath. As he walked off the floor clutching his right shoulder, hopes of a historic season seemed to follow him off the court.
In an ugly defensive struggle, Duke trails Georgia Tech 29-27 at halftime in a game marked by poor shooting and turnovers on both ends of the floor. Tre Jones was back in the starting lineup for the Blue Devils in his first game back since injuring his right shoulder in Duke’s loss to Syracuse last week.
This past weekend saw the Blue Devils pick up arguably their best win of the year before plummeting to their lowest point as a team thus far in a home loss to unranked Syracuse.
ANNAPOLIS, Md.—Johns Hopkins entered Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium Sunday afternoon looking to flip the script after suffering a 19-6 loss to Duke in the NCAA tournament last season—part of a three-game skid against their longtime rival.
Before Friday night, Duke and Notre Dame had met 16 times in the last ten years and were often evenly matched in the regular season.
