Key offensive players suffer injuries
(10/04/05 4:00am)
Duke not only lost to Navy Saturday, but the last-minute defeat also left four more top offensive players with injuries.
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Duke not only lost to Navy Saturday, but the last-minute defeat also left four more top offensive players with injuries.
The women's volleyball team will face ACC-rival Wake Forest tonight at 7 p.m. in Cameron Indoor Stadium, where the Blue Devils are a perfect 5-0 this season. Duke (9-3, 3-1 in the ACC) is riding a three-game winning streak and will try to make it four against the Demon Deacons (8-5, 1-3), who are coming off their first ACC victory.
Down by seven with four seconds left on the clock, Duke had one shot at the end zone from the 24-yard line to tie the game. Junior quarterback Mike Schneider, playing in just his second series of the game, threw a pass intended for receiver Deon Adams. The ball was underthrown and easily batted away by Navy's David Mahoney to seal the Midshipmen's 28-21 victory.
The 2005 NCAA Women's Golf Champions will begin their title defense this weekend at the Mason Rudolph Classic in Nashville, Tenn.
Men's cross country was the runner-up at the Lou Onesty Invitational in Charlottesville, Va., Saturday. Host school University of Virginia came in first place with 27 points, beating Duke by 41 and third-place finisher William & Mary by 49.
Former Duke golfer Maria Garcia-Estrada lost her eight-month battle with cancer and passed away Saturday at her home in Tenerife, Spain. She was 24.
Most Duke fans will notice Boston College’s arrival to the ACC on the basketball court, but the Eagles should make an impact on the gridiron as well.
When the football team opens its season at East Carolina this Saturday, three upperclassmen may be having freshman jitters. Malcolm Ruff, Patrick Bailey and Demetrius Warrick all agreed to switch their positions in the off-season, and the trio has been working during the preseason to adjust to their new roles.
WASHINGTON — Seven weeks after their NCAA Championship in Sunriver, Ore., the Blue Devils traveled to the nation’s capitol where President George W. Bush honored them. Duke met privately with Bush inside the White House, then gathered on the South Lawn for Bush’s address to the 15 teams that won national championships this spring.
It has been more than two decades since the Duke golf program, either men’s or women’s, has had a head coaching change. Over those years, men’s coach Rod Myers and women’s coach Dan Brooks—who combined have more than 50 years of coaching experience at Duke—have sculpted their teams into perennial contenders and done so in programs that seem remarkably similar, but they are quite different in reality.
SUNRIVER, Ore. — The top-ranked women’s golf team captured its third NCAA National Championship Friday. Led by sophomore Anna Grzebien, the Blue Devils carded a four-round total of 34-over-par 1170 as they topped runner-up UCLA by five strokes to earn Duke’s third women’s golf title in seven years and the University’s seventh NCAA Championship overall.
SUNRIVER, Ore. — After two years in the shadows of stars Liz Janangelo and Brittany Lang, sophomore Anna Grzebien has emerged onto the national scene.
Poor weather conditions have slowed the Blue Devils’ quest for their third women’s golf national title.
A week after topping Miami at the ACC Championships, the women’s rowing team cruised by its conference rival in 4-of-7 head-to-head races.
Duke basketball fans got the news they wanted Monday. One month after the Blue Devils’ Sweet 16 loss to Michigan State March 25, Shelden Williams indicated that he would not enter his name in the June 28 NBA draft and would return to Durham for his senior year.
The women’s rowing team finished third at the sixth annual ACC Championship Saturday.
The last time Duke failed to win an ACC title in women’s golf, Hootie and the Blowfish and TLC topped the Billboard charts. O.J. Simpson was on trial for murder, and Forrest Gump was on its way to a Best Picture Oscar.
Playing short-handed again, the No.1 Blue Devils blew out the competition at the Bryan National Collegiate to capture their fifth consecutive title at the Browns Summitt, N.C. course.
Pointing to the crowd and mimicking Tiger Woods’ signature fist pump, Stephen Amritraj walked off the court following his team’s victory and doused himself in beer. The birthday boy, enjoying his first legal day of drinking, then celebrated the Blue Devils’ narrow victory with his teammates.
The top-seeded women’s golf team returned to a familiar position last weekend.