No. 11 Duke men's soccer batters Howard at home, scoring 10 in second half
By Luke Rinaldi | 10 hours agoHalfway through, the Blue Devils were knotted with Howard at zero. By game’s end, it was 10-0 Duke.
Halfway through, the Blue Devils were knotted with Howard at zero. By game’s end, it was 10-0 Duke.
At home in Koskinen Stadium, No. 16 Duke played to a 0-0 draw against in-state opponents Wake Forest. The Blue Devils entered the match without a home win in over a month, while the Demon Deacons came into the game in good form.
On a chilly fall evening at Rudd Field in Elon, N.C., No. 16 Duke outlasted the Phoenix 2-1 in a resilient second-half comeback.
No. 18 Duke, finally playing at home in Koskinen Stadium, took on No. 16 SMU Friday night in a frenzied matchup that ended in a 2-2 draw.
On Luckhurst’s heels once again, the Blue Devils took down the Wolfpack on its home Dail Soccer Field Friday night in Raleigh.
With fall sports thoroughly underway, The Chronicle is polling its readers every week via its Sportswrap newsletter to highlight one Blue Devil athlete’s outstanding performance. This week’s spotlight goes to Adam Luckhurst of Duke men’s soccer.
It was a pretty day in Stanford’s Cagan Stadium but an ugly match. Duke held onto a lead until the last 15 minutes of the game, which ended in a 2-2 tie.
At home in Koskinen Stadium for only the second time this season, the Blue Devils lost 2-1 to their spookiest Tobacco Road rival. No. 11 North Carolina broke Duke’s 23-game regular-season home undefeated streak, dating back to 2021.
In a game characterized by flaring tempers and mountains of fouls, the Blue Devils managed to scrape out a 1-0 win in Charlottesville and grab an ever-important first conference victory.
Duke found itself blown off course Friday as it fell 3-2 to Grand Canyon in its first non-conference regular-season loss since 2021. But in Koskinen Stadium Sunday, the Blue Devils trampled Division-III Averett, allowing just one goal from the Cougars while scoring 14 to tie their program record set in 1994 for most in a single game.
The Blue Devils took on San Diego Thursday and UC San Diego Sunday; they tied the first match 2-2 and won the second 3-2 thanks to sophomore Ulfur Bjornsson's hat trick.
In the wake of several significant departures — senior captains Nick Pariano, Antino Lopez, Lewis McGarvey and Amir Daley included — finding those veterans seemed a tall task. Kerr, however, has taken full advantage of his ability to recruit graduate transfers, such that his roster may have more veteran leaders now than it ever has. Graduate students comprise 10 of Kerr’s 32 players, and only two of them — Cameron Kerr and Luke Thomas — are returners to Duke.
While Duke soccer may be in the offseason, several former Blue Devils are kicking off their MLS campaigns. The Blue Zone is here to break down the performances of some key alumni.
All 32 names on Duke’s roster lived and breathed the beautiful game, such that an amalgam of different nationalities not only fit into the team but actively built its chemistry.
Days after the Philadelphia Union announced it had signed senior midfielder Nick Pariano and a professional career claimed freshman goalkeeper Julian Eyestone, many of the remaining Duke stars entered the world of Major League Soccer, too.
The senior midfielder and team captain signed a homegrown contract with MLS’s Philadelphia Union, which the team announced Thursday.
Freshman goalkeeper Julian Eyestone announced in December that he would leave Duke for a professional career. Friday, he signed with Brentford FC.
In an overtime thriller, No. 15-seed Duke fell to Western Michigan on its home turf, ending its NCAA tournament run in the second round.
From the outside, one could easily assume that the Dallas native is a veteran player — someone who has been with the team for several years and has become a leader by way of his experience with the college game. It might surprise a spectator, then, to learn that Julian Eyestone is just a 17-year-old freshman.
Six Blue Devils earned conference awards Wednesday.