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Duke captures four ACC titles in Orlando this weekend
By Kevin Lees | April 23, 2001LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. -- You might say that Mike Pressler was on the defensive.
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. -- You might say that Mike Pressler was on the defensive.
While the women's tennis team claimed the regular-season ACC title this weekend by dominating Georgia Tech and Clemson, Duke's Amanda Johnson accomplished an amazing feat, becoming the first Blue...
Duke women's lacrosse capped off its regulation season this weekend with its ninth- consecutive win.
The Blue Devils headed south of the border this weekend, and were left feeling sick.
Scott Bross's role on the Duke lacrosse team is simple: Win face-offs. Bross performs this role remarkably well and he continued this trend against the Wahoos.
The Duke women's golf team dominated the Bryan National Collegiate tournament in Greensboro, N.C. this weekend.
Duke women's lacrosse snatched its third victory over top-20 opponents, in two weeks, but this one meant a little more.
Over 2,000 athletes convened this weekend in Duke's very own Wallace Wade Stadium for the 14th annual Duke Invitational Outdoor Track & Field Meet.
No one expected the men's tennis team's senior class to be able to run through the Atlantic Coast Conference for four straight years without losing a match, but barring a miracle by the Tar Heels...
On a blistering hot Senior Day against Virginia that honored two of Duke's all-time winningest women's tennis players, Megan Miller and Kathy Sell, the second-ranked Blue Devils pulled out a 5-2...
The Blue Devils kept things in perspective after their three-game series with the nation's No. 3 team.
In three years, Megan Miller and Kathy Sell worked their way to the top two slots on the team. Then came two potential All-America freshmen, and both seniors slid down the team's ladder.
Despite posting their lowest score of the spring, the No. 19 men's golf team placed 12th at the Cleveland Golf/ASU Invitational last weekend at Forest Hills Golf Club in Augusta, Ga.
The women's tennis team showed no sign of hesitation. In its first ACC match this season. The No. 2 Blue Devils (13-1, 1-0 in the ACC) defeated No. 55 Florida State (9-9, 1-3) by a score of 7-0.
Duke's men's and women's track teams split up this weekend. While the majority of the athletes competed at the N.C. State's Raleigh Relays, a few competitors traveled to Palo Alto, Calif.
There was not much doubt to the men's tennis team's victory yesterday afternoon.
Fifteen seconds was all the time Duke's fourth-ranked women's lacrosse team (7-2, 1-1 in the ACC) needed to take control of No. 12 William & Mary (4-4) Saturday.
Kalen Anderson carried the Duke women's golf team through a storm Sunday to hold on to the team title at the Liz Murphey Classic in Athens, Ga.
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. - Duke repeated as national champions nine years ago in the Minneapolis Metrodome, but defending champion Michigan State will be unable to duplicate the Blue Devils' feat.