The story of Duke’s 10-9 season unfolded early: a team with plenty of talent and heart, but too inconsistent across 60 minutes of play to pull out crucial victories.
As the collegiate sports spring season wraps up, the Blue Zone is once again here to analyze an outstanding spring athlete. Up next is Katie DeSimone.
In its return to the national tournament, Duke fell in a heartbreaking 16-11 defeat to the eighth-ranked Greyhounds after a back-and-forth contest for much of the game.
The Eagles took command early and kept their feet on the gas, spoiling Duke’s revenge tour and sending the Blue Devils packing out of Charlotte with a 19-5 loss.
Morgan’s Message is a nonprofit geared toward equalizing treatment of mental and physical health by reducing the surrounding stigma, named for former Duke women's lacrosse player Morgan Rodgers.
On the one hand, the defeat could be attributed to the absence of star senior attacker Katie DeSimone. The Blue Devils’ woes, however, were bigger than just one player. The issue wasn’t an absence of opportunity, but a lack of discipline.
Despite a career-high four goals from Carly Bernstein, the Blue Devils dropped their regular-season finale to the 15th-ranked Tar Heels 16-11 Thursday afternoon at Dorrance Field.
No. 25 Duke narrowly escaped the upset bid, closing out the 14-11 win against Louisville with a fourth-quarter hat trick from senior midfielder Maddie McCorkle.
Despite the opening score and numerous offensive opportunities, the 23rd-ranked Blue Devils were no match for No. 6 Notre Dame and its trio of star graduate attackers. Duke fell in South Bend, Ind., 19-7 after allowing six goals in the first quarter.
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.
Duke handed No. 8 Virginia a 15-10 upset Saturday afternoon in Koskinen Stadium, the team's second ranked win of the year.
No. 4 Boston College came to Durham Saturday afternoon and simply outplayed Duke. The Blue Devils fell 18-3 as four Eagles earned hat tricks. The defeat, on both Morgan’s Message and Alumni Day, was Duke’s worst of the season and ended its strong three-game win streak.
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.
Since April 2022, a top-25 win seemed elusive for the Blue Devils — until Tuesday. Duke took down No. 22 Harvard in a thrilling 15-13 contest that went down to the wire.
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.
Duke was squashed by No. 19 Clemson in a 20-11 defeat Saturday afternoon that left a sour note on the Blue Devils’ opening matchup of ACC play.
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.
Despite a neck-and-neck first half Saturday afternoon at Koskinen Stadium, No. 13 Johns Hopkins pulled away in the third quarter, this time for good. No. 25 Duke fell in its home opener 17-13.
No. 24 Duke needed a way to jumpstart its season. It found one in Katie DeSimone, whose monstrous performance propelled the Blue Devils to a 22-14 win.
