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In sports, revenge is always sweet. But it's even sweeter when the winner moves on and the loser goes home. Today, Duke's women's lacrosse team will have its chance at payback when it hosts Georgetown in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament with the hopes of avenging a 9-8 loss earlier this season.
CHAPEL HILL -- When Duke took the field Sunday for the ACC championship, the team appeared excited and prepared to capture its first ever conference title. But after the top-seeded Blue Devils jumped out to an early 3-1 lead in the first eight minutes of action, Virginia took over, earning a dominating 17-7 victory.
On March 13, Katie Chrest's shot slid past North Carolina's goalie Kristen Hordy in the bottom left corner of the net to give the Blue Devils a thrilling 7-6 double-overtime victory. Now more than a month later, as regular season champions, Duke's women's lacrosse team will face the Tar Heels again, but this time in the ACC tournament.
The Duke women's golf team has dominated its competition this entire year, and at this weekend's ACC Championships at the Salem Glen Country Club in Clemmons, N.C. things were no different.
Returning from a stress fracture in his back to compete in his first tournament of the spring, Ryan Blaum helped lead the Blue Devils to their first victory this season. The men's golf team captured the Courtyard by Marriot Intercollegiate by 15 strokes over Kansas at the MacGregor Down Country Club in Cary, N.C.
For Duke and All-American Amanda Johnson, Senior Day was not supposed to happen this way. With a 35-match ACC regular season winning streak and the chance to clinch their 16th ACC regular season championship on the line, the fourth-ranked Blue Devils were stunned by No. 16 Clemson Sunday.
In the final home contest of the season and of All-American Phillip King's career, the men's tennis team emerged victorious against its rival North Carolina. Coming from behind after losing the team doubles point, the fifth-ranked Blue Devils (17-5, 5-1 in the ACC) downed the No. 14 Tar Heels (20-3, 6-1) by a count of 5-2.
For the first time in program history, the Duke women's lacrosse team can celebrate an ACC regular season championship. The Blue Devils (7-3, 3-0 in the ACC) accomplished their feat by knocking off fifth-ranked Virginia (9-3, 2-1) and held the nation's leading goal scorer, the Cavaliers' Amy Appelt, without a goal in the first half.
Just last year, Duke's Luol Deng and Connecticut's Charlie Villanueva were battling each other in practice at Blair Academy in New Jersey. Saturday they will match up again. But this time instead of as friends and teammates it will be on opposing benches at the Final Four with a spot in the National Championship on the line.
After beginning the match poorly, the third-ranked Duke women's tennis team rebounded to defeat No. 22 Wake Forest, 5-2.
For the first time since the 2003-04 season began, the No. 1 women's golf team failed to finish in first place at a tournament, coming in third at the Liz Murphy Collegiate. However, the Blue Devils had only four players competing, as the team was without senior Virada Nirapathpongporn and sophomore Liz Janangelo, who spent the weekend competing in the LPGA's Kraft Nabisco Championship, the first of the four major championships on the tour.
Outstanding guard play is a common thread between this year's Sweet 16 teams with backcourts that include St. Joseph's Jameer Nelson and Delonte West, Oklahoma State's John Lucas and Tony Allen, Duke's Chris Duhon and J.J. Redick, and Illinois' Dee Brown and Deron Williams.
The clock ran out on Duke's comeback chances Sunday as Meghan Walters' goal with just 30 seconds to go left the Blue Devils still one point shy of Georgetown.
Duke's reign as one of the premier basketball programs in the country can be attributed to its outstanding perimeter play. Thus, the Blue Devils' inside game has often been overshadowed by their backcourt.
Together they have 24 Final Four appearances and five national championships. They are many of the household names in college basketball.
Basketball is a game of instincts, and Iciss Tillis was simply thinking too much.
In a sloppy shootout last night, the Blue Devils' men's lacrosse team defeated VMI (0-1) 18-11.
Alana Beard, Vicki Krapohl and Iciss Tillis have compiled some remarkable records over the past four years, and they were not going to let anyone spoil their senior night Friday. The three combined for almost half the team's points in a dominating 102-45 victory over Clemson in Duke's final regular season home game.
Winning never gets old, especially for the Duke women's golf team, as it captured the Puerto Rico Classic to win its first tournament of the spring season.
Northwestern sophomore Cristelle Grier had never lost a dual-meet singles match in her college career. That two-year streak ended Saturday when Blue Devil Amanda Johnson defeated the nation's No. 4 player in straight sets to lead Duke to a 4-2 victory.
