After jumping out to an 8-1 lead in the first quarter, the defense held Campbell scoreless in the second and third — the team’s fewest goals allowed all season —and earned its third win in a week after beating East Carolina last Tuesday and No. 8 Virginia Saturday.
After a heartbreaking triple overtime loss to the Hokies in the 2023 campaign, the Blue Devils headed to Blacksburg, Va., determined not to let history repeat itself. They returned home with a hardfought 9-8 win and a three-game win streak.
Duke headed north to Syracuse, N.Y., looking for its first conference win in Saturday’s match-up, but could not find an answer to the Orange onslaught. No. 4 Syracuse led the entire game and sent the Blue Devils home with an 15-8 loss to prolong their ACC slump.
Over the past five years, Lexi has carved out her own piece of the Duke pie, while her parents have relished in an experience few get to share with their children.
The Blue Devils led 17-4 coming out of halftime, and held Winthrop to just one more in the final 30 minutes while the home team piled on eight to finish the afternoon with an impressive 17 different point scorers.
The 24th-ranked Blue Devils opened their season in disappointing fashion Friday afternoon, falling 10-9 to Navy in a game that, despite the final score, was anything but close.
It will be a brand-new team playing in Koskinen Stadium. Tabbed with a No. 24 preseason ranking and with a “nice home schedule for ACC games,” as Kimel put it, Duke will look to bounce back from its shaky 2023 and rise back into contention in the best conference in women’s lacrosse.
Duke put away Virginia Tech 1-0 Thursday night to snap a record-tying six-game winless streak. The Blue Devils knight in shining armor? A freshman who came off the bench.
Two goals within five minutes of the second-half restart delivered the Panthers their first win against the Blue Devils in program history.
Duke won the weekend again, downing Syracuse on Friday and Old Dominion on Sunday in a pair of games that, while night-and-day, produced the same result: another win in its stellar resurgent season.
