Duke doesn’t play in the Ivy League, but for the next couple of weeks, it sure seems like the Blue Devils belong in the Northeast.
Playing for the second time in four days, No. 10 Duke returns to the Koskinen Stadium field tonight at 7 p.m. when it hosts Dartmouth (2-2). After traveling to Washington, D.C. for a matchup with No. 12 Georgetown this weekend, the Blue Devils then face Ivy League opponents Brown and Harvard back-to-back.
Duke (4-3) won its second straight game when it crushed winless Penn State, 20-11, over the weekend. The Blue Devils’ three leaders on the attack—Ned Crotty, Max Quinzani and Zach Howell—all put up big numbers, and Duke’s veteran defense more than held on for the win.
The Big Green have already been in the state of North Carolina for a few days after suffering a 15-6 loss to the Tar Heels Friday night. In that game, Dartmouth held North Carolina to a single goal in the first quarter, but then gave up nine unanswered tallies as the Tar Heels pulled away.
Duke has had some trouble putting away opponents this season, although there haven’t been many easy ones on the schedule. The Blue Devils’ three losses have come against Notre Dame, Maryland and North Carolina, the Nos. 3, 4 and 5 teams in the nation.
Blue Devil attackman Jonathan Livadas, who is a graduate student at Duke, played his undergraduate lacrosse at Dartmouth.
—from staff reports
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