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Defense wakes Blue Devils up

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by Zac ElderThe ChroniCle

WinSTon-SAleM, n.C.—The Blue Devils own the fourth quarter this year.

no. 25 Duke proved its late-game dominance again Saturday, blanking the Demon Deacons in the game’s fi-nal period to secure its ninth win of the season and at least a share of the ACC’s Coastal Division title.

“i think it’s a tribute to Jim Knowles and the defensive staff and their ability to adjust. it’s also a tribute to some old-er players that we finally have become systematic defensively,” Blue Devil head coach David Cutcliffe said. “We have answers. They do this, and we do this. That’s one of the great beliefs that we have is that you have to be systematic. i think it’s helped us play better as the game goes.”

Duke has outscored opponents 117-34 in the final period of play, the best fourth-quarter scoring margin in the FBS.

After going down 14-0 in the first quarter, the Blue Devils stormed back to tie the game 14-14 heading into the eric lin/The ChroniCle

A fourth-quarter defensive stand, including sacks on back-to-back plays in the red zone, led Duke to a road victory against Wake Forest for the team’s ninth triumph of the season.

men’s basketball

Duke tops Vermont

women’s soccer

Blue Devils through to Elite Eight on penalties

by Brian PollackThe ChroniCle

For the second time in three nCAA tournament games, junior forward Kelly Cobb had a chance to win the game in penalty kicks. For the second time, she de-livered.

“When she stepped in, no doubt at all [that she would make it],” head coach robbie Church said. “You could feel that within our team, there was no doubt.”

Cobb’s clutch shot gave Duke a 5-3 vic-tory in a penalty shootout against Arkansas after its third-round nCAA tournament match ended in a 2-2 draw after 110 min-utes of action Sunday at Koskinen Stadi-um. The Blue Devils now advance to the elite eight and will take on no. 1 seed Vir-ginia Tech Friday. The hokies advanced by defeating Santa Clara in penalty kicks.

The razorbacks had yet to participate in a penalty shootout in this year’s nCAA tournament, but Duke was able to draw on its experience from its first-round victory

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Goalkeeper Ali Kershner’s save of an Arkan-sas penalty kick was the difference-maker in Duke’s NCAA tournament victory.See w. soccer, page 8

See football, page 8

by Ryan HoergerThe ChroniCle

Another night, another nailbiter for the Blue Devils.

rodney hood’s free throw with 5.0 sec-onds to play gave no. 6 Duke a 91-90 win against Vermont Sunday night at Camer-on indoor Stadium.

“This was an unacceptable perfor-mance. We were lucky to win,” Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “We played like a team that thought we would just show up and win. That’s how you get beat.”

The Catamounts (1-5) scored 50 points in the paint and shot 64.8 percent from the field, eye-popping numbers for a team that came into Sunday’s contest averaging just 63 points per game. Con-sistent defensive breakdowns left Ver-mont forwards with plenty of room to maneuver down low.

“it’s energy, it’s effort, it’s fight. Guys weren’t talking out there,” Blue Devil point guard Quinn Cook said. “The first 30 minutes of the game we were all playing defense by ourselves. You give a great team like that confidence and the basket is like the ocean out there. They hit some tough shots.”

For the second straight game, the Blue Devils were unable to put distance between themselves and their opponent in the first half. led by 12 first-half points from for-ward Clancy rugg, the Catamounts shot 66.7 percent from the floor in the open-ing 20 minutes. Point guard Sandro Caris-simo was effective despite three first-half fouls, getting into the lane time and again and dishing off to rugg and others for 26 points in the paint.

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Blue Devils downs Marquette without Petersby Brian Mazur

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MilWAUKee—The Blue Devils missed having one of their senior leaders, but that did not stop them from cruising to their second road win of the season.

Center elizabeth Williams fi lled the void left by the absence of senior forward

haley Peters, who was unavailable due to a knee injury she sustained Thurs-

day night against Vanderbilt. Williams’ 23 points lifted no. 2 Duke to a 78-61 win against Marquette Sunday afternoon at the Al McGuire Center.

“[Marquette] is a very good team,” head coach Joanne P. McCallie said “But eliza-beth is a very good player and she is hard to guard. She was fantastic in demanding the ball, especially in the second half.”

Williams and freshman oderah Chi-dom, who was a perfect 4-of-4 from the fi eld with nine points and fi ve rebounds, helped the Blue Devils (5-0) outscore the Golden eagles (4-1) 46-20 in the paint.

Playing without Peters—who is the team’s leading rebounder—Duke was outrebounded 45-35 by Marquette and allowed the Golden eagles to score 17 sec-ond-chance points.

“haley is a tremendous loss for us,” Mc-Callie said. “But i do think people stepped up. oderah gave us really good minutes. She was aggressive, she was active. it was a

tough team to play. it was not like she was walking into those statistics.”

Duke guard Chelsea Gray fed the post all game, registering 13 assists and fi nish-ing one rebound shy of a triple-double with 12 points and nine boards.

“We have this tendency to play from the outside in,” McCallie said. “That is bad be-cause we have some tremendous post-play-ers. i thought we did a great job, particular-ly our guards, of going through elizabeth

and letting things happen there.”The Blue Devils quickly built a 16-9 lead

in the fi rst half, but the Golden eagles stormed back, riding a 10-3 run that tied the game 19-19.

even though Gray got into foul trou-ble early on, stout defense by Duke held the Golden eagles offense to just 10-for-35 shooting in the fi rst 20 minutes and allowed the Blue Devils to walk into the locker room with a nine-point lead.

Guard Alexis Jones set the tone after the break, draining a 3-pointer 11 seconds into the second half and expanding her team’s advantage to double digits.

But Marquette would not go away. Se-nior guard Katie Young knocked down four 3-point shots on her way to a 21-point performance. Forward Katherine Pluoffe also added 17 points and eight rebounds.

Duke capitalized off of Marquette mis-takes, scoring 26 points as a result of 20 Golden eagle turnovers. Jones played a crucial role defending the backcourt and was credited with four steals.

“We were excited to play against [Mar-quette] to see what we could work on in our different defenses,” McCallie said. “Alexis was on it defensively. Some great plays in the second half to pick us up.”

The offense continued to get the ball to Williams, who scored 13 of her 23 points in the second half. At one point, with the Blue Devils leading 46-38, Wil-liams scored on a jumper to open a 7-0 run that gave Duke a 53-38 lead and some breathing room.

“The guards did a really good job of getting the ball inside,” Williams said. “We talked a lot about transition. i can get out and run and the guards threw long outlet passes.”

Marquette tried to bounce back, cut-ting the defi cit to 13 points with 4:39 to play, but Duke controlled the paint down the stretch to come away with the victory.

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Playing in a shorthanded Duke frontcourt, junior Elizabeth Williams led the way with 23 points as the Blue Devils knocked off Marquette.

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Duke (5-1) shot 48.5 percent from the fi eld in the fi rst half, including 8-for-17 from beyond the arc. Andre Dawkins was a fi rst-half spark for the Blue Devils, tallying 13 points that included three different va-rieties of the 3-point play—a driving layup and the foul, a 3-point shot and three free throws after being fouled on another shot from downtown.

With 15:29 remaining in the second half, freshman Jabari Parker—who led the Blue Devils with a game-high 26 points—stole a pass and went coast-to-coast for a dunk, bringing the Duke lead to 61-49. Krzyzewski accused his team of compla-cency after the apparent momentum shift.

“Those are the kind of situations when we show our immaturity,” Krzyzewski said. “right after that was our worst. [We felt like,] ‘i got enough. now we got it, we’re good now.’ no, we’re not good, there are 15 minutes to go in the game and they’re shooting over 60 percent from the fl oor.”

The uneasiness would only grow as the second half progressed. A 10-0 Vermont run brought the Catamounts to within two with with 11:10 remaining. Carissimo never let his foot off the gas, continuing to drive the lane. he fi nished the game with 16 points and nine assists. hector harold, a junior forward, poured in 16 of his 24 points off the bench in the second half to keep the Catamount fans loud and in-volved.

A 3-pointer by harold with 6:59 gave

the Catamounts the lead, 74-73, erasing their 14-point defi cit. it was the second time in as many games that the Blue Dev-ils have allowed their opponent to come back after holding a double-digit lead in the fi rst half. Carissimo followed with a jumper the next time down the fl oor, giv-ing Vermont its largest lead of the night.

With the pressure squarely on Duke, Parker led his team back. The freshman shot 7-for-8 in the second half, many of which came on tip-ins and putbacks on of-fensive rebounds down the stretch. But he was not satisfi ed by the overall team effort or his individual performance.

“it’s nothing to be happy about,” Park-er said. “We can’t just win by one point and be on the verge of losing. We got to do bet-ter. We didn’t do a good job today.”

The teams traded baskets, and Duke regained a four-point edge following free throws by rasheed Sulaimon and Quinn Cook.

Down 90-86 with under 20 seconds to play, Candon rusin lifted a 3-pointer that found the bottom of the net. Sulai-mon, who had slipped on the play, was underneath rusin as he landed, and was called for a foul. rusin made the ensu-ing free throw to tie the game with 10.4 seconds to go.

on Duke’s fi nal possession, hood took the ball to the basket and was fouled by rugg. After missing the fi rst attempt, he made the second.

The Blue Devils didn’t get many stops in crunch time, but they were able to sur-

vive Vermont’s last-gasp effort. Carissimo sprinted downcourt and found an open rusin, but the guard couldn’t get a shot off before time expired, extending the Blue Devils’ streak to 106 nonconference wins at home.

The Blue Devils now head to new York for the semifi nals of the niT Season Tip-off, and they’ll take an important lesson with them.

“our guys do not understand that what they see on tape is not what they’re go-ing to see that night or that afternoon,” Krzyzewski said. [our opponent is] playing against [my team], they’re playing against [our] history, they’re playing against me. We’ve got a good hand here, and you’ve got to play your hand every day, because the team that plays against you is going to play their hand ultimately.”

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Vermont put a scare into Duke, but the Catamounts failed to get a shot off before the final buzzer sounded to preserve the Blue Devils’ home nonconference win streak.

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FSU snaps Duke’s 11-game winning streak

by Ryan HoergerThe ChroniCle

The race for the ACC champion-ship will come down to the final week of the regular season.

no. 13 Duke returned from its weekend trip to Florida with a split, defeating Miami in straight sets 25-21, 25-19, 25-13 Friday

night before falling at no. 19 Flori-da State 25-22, 25-22, 25-17 Sunday afternoon. The loss to the Seminoles snapped Duke’s 11-match win streak, and kept Florida State alive in the hunt for the ACC championship with two matches remaining.

The Blue Devils (25-4, 16-2 in the ACC) still lead the conference, but have little margin for error heading into their final two matchups of the season. Duke closes the season at home by facing n.C. State, who dealt the Blue Devils their only other con-ference loss of the season, and north Carolina, which has conference title aspirations of its own.

Florida State, undefeated on its home floor since Sept. 24, entered Sunday’s match looking to avenge a five-set loss in Durham oct. 25. led by 15 kills from nicole Walch and 10 from her sister elise, the Seminoles (22-7, 15-3) finished the first two sets strong before running away in the fi-nal stanza.

“We were in both of those first two sets, but at some critical points they were able to get some kills,” Duke head coach Jolene nagel said. “We had too many service errors. When you’re playing that good a team, you can’t afford those kind of errors.”

The first set was tightly contested, with neither team leading by more than two points until Florida State took a 17-14 lead on an ace by nicole

Walch. Duke stormed back, however, scoring the next four points, led by a kill and an ace from senior middle blocker Chelsea Cook. The overland Park, Kan., native was Duke’s most ef-ficient threat on the afternoon, post-ing eight kills on 14 attempts.

The teams battled to a 22-22 tie, but from there it was all Seminoles. They scored the final three points of the set on a block, an attack error by Duke’s emily Sklar and a kill by elise Walch to close out the first set.

The second set was more of the same. The teams traded points until Duke was able to build a sizeable lead at 19-13. The key was a stretch of five consecutive Blue Devil kills—two by junior Jeme obeime, two by fresh-man Jordan Tucker, and one by soph-omore elizabeth Campbell. Florida State twice called timeout to stop the bleeding, but the momentum seemed squarely in Duke’s corner.

From there, Florida State began crawling its way back into the set. Back-to-back attack errors by Camp-bell and Sklar brought the Seminoles to within two points at 21-19, and the set was back at a 22-22 tie soon after-wards. At that point, nicole Walch took over. The sophomore outside hitter delivered three straight kills to finish the set and give the Seminoles a commanding 2-0 lead. The Walch sisters were thorns in Duke’s side all afternoon.

“They’re hard to stop, it’s real-ly hard to block them both,” nagel said. “They’re really good with just one blocker on them.”

Things came undone early for the Blue Devils in the third set, as Flori-da State sprinted out to a 13-4 advan-tage, then held on to win comfort-ably, 25-17. For the afternoon, Duke was held to just a .185 hitting per-centage, committing 20 attack errors.

Against the hurricanes (16-11, 9-8), the Blue Devils posted an effi-cient .333 hitting percentage—Duke had just eight attack errors and none in the final set—and held Miami to a .176 clip en route to a straight-set vic-tory. Sklar and obeime led the Duke attack, each tallying 13 kills. obeime committed zero attack errors to lead the Blue Devils by hitting .520, while Sklar also recorded 13 digs to pick up her third consecutive double-double.

The focus now shifts to two criti-cal matches this week at Cameron in-door Stadium, when the Blue Devils will look to put Sunday’s defeat be-hind them.

“We don’t really have a choice. We have to,” nagel said. “We’re going to learn from it, obviously, having those losses early in the season really helped us a lot. We’ve put ourselves in a good position here.”MIA 0

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against Colorado College, which ended 4-3 in penalty kicks.

“i think we were more confi dent, es-pecially after winning the last one,” Cobb said. “once i saw Mollie [Pathman] go up there for the fi rst one, i knew she was go-ing to put it away.”

The Blue Devils were perfect on the of-fensive end of the penalty kick shootout, converting on all fi ve attempts. This took the pressure off goalkeeper Ali Kersh-ner—who was inserted by Church off the bench for the purpose of penalty kicks for the second straight week.

“Those girls are so good at taking penal-ty kicks,” Kershner said. “it’s so huge when you can make them, and then my job be-comes that much easier. i’m thankful that we have some good kickers on our team.”

Kershner came through in a big way, smothering Jesse Givens’ shot in the third round to give Duke a 3-2 advantage. The lone save proved to be all that was neces-sary, with Cobb’s clincher giving the Blue Devils a 5-3 victory in the shootout.

The offensive effi ciency that Duke dis-played in penalty kicks was a sharp con-trast from their play in regulation and overtime. The Blue Devils kept the ball in the razorbacks’ defensive third for most of the game and racked up 26 shots, but still came away with only two goals in 110 minutes of play.

“i think everyone was feeling a little frustrated,” Cobb said. “We had over 20 shots and unfortunately none of them went in—saves were made, they hit off the crossbar or went wide.”

For most of the game, Arkansas was content with packing its defenders inside its own 18-yard box and allowing Duke to run down the wings. The Blue Devils were able to send many crosses into the mid-dle, but most of them were intercepted by awaiting razorback defenders.

“We looked like we looked earlier in the year—like we did in September,” Church noted. “We got a lot of shots and a lot of services. We looked dangerous, but we weren’t really dangerous. it was a little frustrating.”

After threatening for most of the fi rst half, Duke fi nally came through and

broke the scoreless draw with 8:25 left in the fi rst half. Freshman Christina Gibbons was able to get around her defender and dribbled from the right wing into the six-yard box. She slid a pass across to forward Kim DeCesare, who tapped it in to give the Blue Devils a 1-0 lead.

“All i had to do was really tap it in,” De-Cesare said. “Gibbons beat two or three players—she did all the work and put it right in front of me. it would have been bad if i didn’t put it in.”

The razorbacks fi rst got on the score-board in the 68th minute. Defender Allie Tripp took a corner from the left side and fl oated it into the box, where sophomore forward Ashleigh ellenwood—the team’s leading scorer—headed the ball into the net for her 14th goal of the season.

The game wouldn’t stay tied for long. Duke answered with another goal in the 74th minute to regain the lead. Senior Mollie Pathman lobbed a cross to DeCe-sare, who elevated and headed the ball in for her second goal of the afternoon.

The razorbacks refused to roll over. exactly two minutes later, freshman de-fender Alexandra Fischer tied the game once again. A pass from ellenwood got past the Duke defense, giving Fischer the angle from the left side that she needed to slide the ball past Thomas and tie the game at 2-2.

each team had one excellent scoring chance in the overtime periods. in the opening minute of the fi rst overtime, Ar-kansas had the winning goal negated by an offside call from the offi cials. Duke’s opportunity came at the end of the fi rst 10-minute period, when Cobb fi red a shot from outside the 18-yard box that glanced off the crossbar and out of play.

As Duke looks ahead to a road matchup with top-seed Virginia Tech, Church said his team will look to its seniors to guide the Blue Devils as they play for another trip to the nCAA Final Four.

“They have a special drive, and they’re defi nitely the ones that are leading us here,” Church said. “For the other play-ers, they don’t want to lose for the se-niors. They want to win for themselves, but they also want to win for the seniors because of how much they have meant to this program.”

locker room at half time. Wake Forest scored on its opening drive of the sec-ond half but would not put points on the board for the rest of the game.

Duke registered two touchdowns in the third quarter to take a 28-21 lead, and then sat back and let its defense do the work in the fourth quarter to fi nish off the Demon Deacons.

“our model is to fi nish,” senior cor-nerback ross Cockrell said. “We’ve been talking about it all year long, and we’re going to continue to talk about it. We know that when the game gets tough, it’s in the fourth quarter. That’s when you have to be at your best.”

After going up by a touchdown with a little more than three minutes left in the third quarter, the Blue Devils had perhaps their most important defensive stand of the whole game.

Wake Forest was able to move the ball from its own 25-yard line to Duke’s 23-yard line in 12 plays. Tanner Price fi red incomplete on fi rst down, and then the Demon Deacons committed a false start penalty to bring up second-and-15. Price dropped back again to pass but was swal-lowed up by defensive end Kenny Anuni-ke for a seven-yard loss. The sixth-year senior sacked Price again on third down, this time for a loss of 13 yards.

“i just had a fi re in my eyes. i just wanted to go out there and get it,” Anunike said. “Coupled with our de-fensive coordinator’s perfect call, i just went out there and executed.”

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“Kenny is a playmaker for us,” Cock-rell said. “That’s why we call him the night Train. We go as he goes. We jump on his back and he carries us. For him to make those play for us was huge.”

After a quick punt on Duke’s ensu-ing possession, Wake Forest again took over looking to tie the game. But a forced fumble recovered by redshirt-ju-nior linebacker Kelby Brown again kept the Demon Deacons off the board.

Kicker ross Martin missed a 48-yard fi eld goal attempt on the Blue Devils’ next drive, setting Wake Forest up at their own 30-yard line with 4:11 left to play in the game. Down one touch-down, the Demon Deacons picked up just one fi rst down before Cockrell in-tercepted Price’s pass over the middle and sealed the win for Duke.

“They had been running a drive route, a deep in-route. They hit us on it a couple times trying to attack the mid-dle of the fi eld,” Cockrell said. “i was fortunate enough to see it, and i made a good jump.”

The Blue Devils have allowed just three offensive touchdowns in the fourth quarter all season. With the offense stalling late against Wake For-est, the defense came up big, as it has all year.

“That’s our goal is to outplay a team for 60 minutes, three-and-a-half hours,” Brown said. “The fourth quarter is big for us—it really has been this year.”

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