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Georgia's Landers: Blue Devils do have talent
By Victor Zhao and Nick Tylwalk | March 29, 1999SAN JOSE, Calif.
SAN JOSE, Calif.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - A matchup against Mateen Cleaves was just another day at the office for Will Avery.
Predictable is no longer the word.
Three times this season, the men's lacrosse team has traveled north for a game between two undefeated, top-10 teams. Three times, Duke has emerged with its record unblemished.
Duke women's lacrosse coach Kerstin Kimel scheduled back-to-back weekend games this season to prepare her team for the postseason tournaments, in which this same format is used.
SAN JOSE, Calif. - As coach Gail Goestenkors tells the story, Duke's women's basketball players got the chance to set their own goal at the start of the season.
SAN JOSE, Calif. - Three years ago, Nicole Erickson and Michele VanGorp thought life at Purdue couldn't have been better.
GREENSBORO, N.C. - Ever since last season's loss in the Elite Eight to ninth-seeded Arkansas, the women's basketball team has waited for its chance at redemption.
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - Mike Krzyzewski won't have to show his players videotapes anymore. They're ready once again to make their own.
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - And to think, some were asking if the Blue Devils could win without Trajan Langdon.
For the women's lacrosse team, a moral victory just wouldn't suffice.
Last spring, it was for the NCAA title. Last month, it was for the National Indoors title. Last week, it was just for pride.
The outcome in collegiate match play often comes down to one match.
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - This time around, history wasn't destined to repeat itself.
GREENSBORO, N.C.
With under seven minutes remaining in the third quarter of yesterday's game against 11th-ranked Navy (3-2), the men's lacrosse team trailed 4-2. Less than four minutes later, Duke led 7-4.
History called for a Michigan win.
While the majority of the student body sat in front of their televisions anxiously awaiting the start of the second half of the ACC title game, Duke pitcher Stephen Cowie was on the verge of making...