Baseball drops first two, tops Cincinnati 9-8 in third
By Kevin Lloyd | February 18, 2002It certainly wasn't a picture-perfect weekend for the baseball team.
It certainly wasn't a picture-perfect weekend for the baseball team.
After a one-week layoff following last Sunday's win over Clemson, the fifth-ranked Blue Devils resume conference play Monday night when they face the N. C. State Wolfpack.
Battling a case of the stomach flu, 174-pound senior Matt Hoover tried to jump-start Duke's offensive in its dual meet against Virginia Saturday afternoon.
In their only home meet of the year, the Duke fencing teams achieved terrific gains and disappointing setbacks.
ATLANTA -- Playing two games in three days is never easy, but the men's basketball team made it look that way.
ATLANTA -- Duke hasn't exactly come out firing on all cylinders lately.
Few teams can begin the season 1-5 while having confidence and maintaining their status as an elite, top-10 program. However, in the young spring season, the men's tennis team has done just that.
Still down 3-1 after a Julie DeRoo victory over No.
After turning the ball over on seven of its first nine possessions, Duke suffered from an eight-point deficit to the less highly touted Clemson Lady Tigers.
In a surprisingly close game and after a tough start, the Duke women's basketball team (21-0, 13-0 in the ACC) defeated the Clemson Lady Tigers (14-9, 6-6) Sunday 77-69.
Eager to establish itself this year as a national contender, the Duke baseball team kicked off the 2002 season on a promising note, taking 2-of-3 games from Navy at Jack Coombs Field.
Saturday night, the second-ranked women's tennis team extended its winning streak to three matches by narrowly defeating its hosts, 39th-ranked Harvard, 4-3.
Matches are hardly ever decided before they start. But when the Duke wrestlers hosted the Davidson Wildcats Friday night in Cameron Indoor Stadium, victory was never in doubt.
The weekend was disappointing for the men's tennis team, but the Blue Devils remain confident for important National Team Indoors next week. The No.
CLEMSON, S.C. -- Last year, the Clemson Tigers welcomed a No. 1 team from the state of North Carolina into Littlejohn Coliseum and sent it home a loser.
The Duke women's swimming team (4-6) defeated William and Mary 143-100, while the men's team (3-7) fell to the Tribe 121.5-101.5 in both teams' last regular season meet of the year.
COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- After winning the tip, Iciss Tillis charged down to the blocks to receive an entry pass from Vicki Krapohl on the left side.
COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- On the road against an ACC team that had been ranked in the preseason top 25, the Duke women's basketball team did nearly everything possible to lose.
CLEMSON, S.C.