Retaliation: Tar Heels avenge thumping with upset win
By Andrea Bookman | February 28, 2000CHAPEL HILL - What a difference a month makes.
CHAPEL HILL - What a difference a month makes.
Six-and-a-half innings into the final game of a three game set at historic Jack Coombs Field between the baseball team and Cincinnati, the weekend was a complete failure for the Blue Devils.
Last season, the women's basketball team fell just once in conference play en route to a 15-1 record. That loss? An 80-75 decision at the hands of the Clemson Tigers in Littlejohn Coliseum.
Three days of success were quickly forgotten in one humiliating hour yesterday.
There was a moment of hesitation, then relief.
Things went so well at historic Jack Coombs Field this weekend that Alpha Tau Omega banged out a decent version of "Take me out to the ballgame" during Sunday's seventh-inning stretch.
RALEIGH - The rematch fell short of the original-but not by much.
RALEIGH - It's hard to imagine exactly what Chris Carrawell was told as a high school senior.
Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!.
For No. 5 Duke, Saturday's match against unranked Ohio State should have been an easy win. The Blue Devils never thought the contest would come down to the final match. With the competition tied...
The number 13 is usually associated with good or bad luck, depending on which team you play for.
The baseball team probably needed a morale boost after getting victimized by a East Carolina no-hitter.
Oh, what a difference one week can make.
ATLANTA - Coach Mike Krzyzewski's words said one thing-the Maryland loss didn't mean that much and the game was any other game.
The men's tennis team is playing better than it ever has this early in the year, and the quick start has all the Blue Devils thanking the same thing.
For the Blue Devil seniors on the fencing team, this weekend's Duke Invitational tournament held in Card Gym was an excellent way to finish their regular-season collegiate careers.
ATLANTA - With all due respect to Chicken Little (and some wishful thinkers around the ACC), the sky is not falling on Durham.
The men's baseball team opened up its 2000 campaign to mixed results on Sunday when it split a double-header against the Georgetown Hoyas (1-1) at East Carolina's Harrington Field.
As rising sophomores playing on the ITA summer circuit, Kathy Sell and Megan Miller once rallied from a 6-0, 5-0 deficit to win a doubles event late in the circuit calendar.
There is a phenomenon that exists in sports called a letdown game, where a team coming off an emotional, hard-fought win enters its next game flat and loses to a team it would normally defeat.