Blue Devils travel to Wilmington
By David Ungvary | September 25, 2007Heading into its first away game of the regular season tonight at 7 p.m. against UNC-Wilmington, Duke seems to have hit its stride.
Heading into its first away game of the regular season tonight at 7 p.m. against UNC-Wilmington, Duke seems to have hit its stride.
No. 12 Duke (5-2-0, 1-0-0 in the ACC) defeated Maryland on head coach John Rennie's birthday, winning 2-1 in double overtime in front of 5,013 fans in Koskinen Stadium.
Ask a Duke player who has the strongest right-footed shot on the team, and almost every one will give the same answer: C.J. Ludemann.
After struggling to score in their first four games, the Blue Devil offense finally found its groove last weekend, recording nine goals in wins over Elon and Dartmouth. How many goals Duke...
Six games into the season, Duke has already lost as many games as they did through the entire regular season last year. Heading into ACC play against No. 16 Maryland (3-2-1, 0-1 in the ACC) this...
The Blue Devils entered Wednesday night's game against South Carolina looking to break out of their scoring slump by getting early goals and scores from their stars.
In two of its last three games, No. 12 Duke has struggled to score despite having plenty of opportunities on offense. Both of those contests ended in 1-0 Blue Devil losses.
Five hundred twenty-two. In six games, only one Blue Devil has played that many minutes out of a possible 540. It's not the goalie, it's not an upperclassmen---it's freshman defender Gretchen Miller.
Entering Saturday's game, West Virginia had played every match this season to a final score of 1-0. And the Mountaineers' contest in Koskinen Stadium against Duke was no different.
Elisabeth Redmond came off the field midway through the second half to a well-deserved round of applause. After all, it's rare that a player puts up three goals in two games.
The Blue Devils do not know very much about West Virginia-but they do know that the Mountaineers will come to play.
Kelly Hathorn jogged off the field late in the first half, gave Duke head coach Robbie Church a high-five, looked at her teammates on the bench and let out a hearty chuckle.
After the game, it's easy to tell which players are freshmen. They're the ones on the sidelines after every other Blue Devil has left, still busy collecting the pinnies, the soccer balls, the...
One preseason prediction is already inaccurate-but at least Duke's season is back on track.
Goals were scarce for Duke last weekend in California, and legitimate scoring opportunities were just as rare.
There are some losses you never forget, no matter how much time has passed.
For a team that is ranked in the top two in the country, Duke still feels as if it has a lot to prove.
Defense wins championships-Duke senior goalkeeper Justin Papadakis has proven that to be more than just a tired cliche.
San Diego has plenty that Durham lacks. And even though the West Coast city claims an abundance of beaches on the Pacific Ocean, it was not the oasis Duke needed to break its scoring drought.
Though they struggled to score for most of the game, the No. 4 Blue Devils felt as if they were going to beat Valparaiso one way or another.