Comeback bid falls short
By Sports Staff | January 28, 2011Trailing N.C. State 27-0 Thursday night, the Blue Devils could have capitulated in the face of a nearly insurmountable lead.
Trailing N.C. State 27-0 Thursday night, the Blue Devils could have capitulated in the face of a nearly insurmountable lead.
Mike Bell had lost a contact lens earlier in his match against North Carolina’s Danny Lopes, but he didn’t need 20-20 vision to score Duke’s best victory of the night.
The Blue Devils competed in their first dual match of the season Tuesday night but could not come away with a victory against The Citadel.
Duke competed with the nation’s elite wrestling programs over the weekend at the Cliff Keen Wrestling Invitational in Las Vegas, Nev., scoring eight points to finish 30th out of 36 teams.
Junior Konrad Dudziak's run all the way to the finals of the NCAA Wrestling Championships came to a painful end Saturday, as Dudziak lost a triple-overtime match 3-2 to No. 2 Mark Ellis of...
Junior John Barone took three matches, including his 100th career win, Saturday as the Blue Devils beat Eastern Michigan, Gardner-Webb and Appalachian State in Boiling Springs, N.C. With the three...
Duke won two of its first three bouts, but North Carolina took six of the next seven as the Tar Heels beat the Blue Devils 25-10 Wednesday in Cameron Indoor Stadium. Duke's Voris Tejada and John...
Junior heavyweight Konrad Dudziak showed why he is Duke's most valuable wrestler Wednesday night in Raleigh, leading the Blue Devils to their first ACC win since 2005 despite suffering a knee...
The Blue Devils opened their season in two tournaments this weekend at the Citadel Open and the Wolfpack Open and ended the weekend with five victories overall, winning three at the Citadel and two...
The Blue Devils won eight of their 10 matches and registered four pins en route to a dominating 42-7 win over Duquesne Sunday in Cameron Indoor Stadium. On a night when seniors Dan Fox, Bryan...
The Blue Devils split a home doubleheader Saturday in Cameron Indoor Stadium, losing 22-18 to Virginia Tech but taking a 22-12 win over VMI.
The Duke men finished 5-0 Friday to win the foil and saber team trophies at the Duke Fencing Invitational in Card Gym.
Wrestling four matches in one weekend, Duke routed Belmont Abbey, UNC-Pembroke and Campbell Saturday at the Campbell Duals in Buies Creek, N.C. before dropping a 19-15 decision to Virginia Sunday...
On Senior Night in Cameron Indoor Stadium, Duke was plagued by illness and could not capitalize on a fast start, ultimately losing 30-13 to UNC-Greensboro (9-4).
In its tour of Virginia this weekend, the Blue Devils lost two conference meets to opponents Virginia and Virginia Tech.
Although the Blue Devils (7-5, 0-2 in the ACC) gave a commendable effort against the Tar Heels (7-6, 4-1), there was just too much working against them as UNC came away with a 30-12 win.
Knotting the score at four in the third period of the last bout of the night Saturday, Duke's 125-pound Kellan McKeon forced Maryland's James Knox to battle through two overtime periods before...
Hitting the mats Saturday after 10 days without competition, Duke's second longest competitive dry spell of the season could have been enough to allow some dust to settle on the team.
From the beginning of the UPenn Invitational, the Blue Devils were counted out. Duke (2-1 in dual meets) had only one ranked wrestler in all 10 weight class brackets. The tournament was not...
Duke split up its grapplers into starters, who faced off at three dual meets, and backups and redshirts, who wrestled at the Pembroke Open. The team had a tournament winner at Pembroke but at the...