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A LOOK AHEAD Defending Coastal champs preview 2014 with Spring Game

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even though much of the attention will be focused on the hardwood this month, March kicked off with Duke football’s chance to shine.

The Blue Devils returned to action for the first time this year, playing in their annual Spring Game at Wallace Wade Stadium.

The Blue squad, which included most of last year’s starters on both sides of the ball, emerged victorious with a 24-14 win. head coach David Cutcliffe emphasized after the game that even after a historic 10-win season, his team is still working to achieve more next season.

“You saw what our spring practice has been—continued momentum,” Cutcliffe said. “i felt like that was a big part of the day. The spring never looked like we won [10 games]. We divided our team in half and you saw what you wanted to see from the standpoint of defensive plays made and there were offensive plays made.”

After building a 10-7 lead going into halftime, Blue scored its second touchdown of the day when redshirt senior Brandon Connette found junior wide receiver Max McCaffrey over the middle of the field for a 37-yard touchdown pass with 6:20 to play in the third quarter to extend the lead to 10 points.

The White squad had a chance to cut into the lead later in the quarter when defensive tackle Mike ramsey stripped Josh Snead of the football on the Blue 34-yard line. however, the ensuing drive only went backwards and the White offense, led by redshirt sophomore quarterback Thomas See FooTBall, page 7 SOPHia DUraND/the ChroniCle

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Freshman Michael Miller earned a bronze medal in the 400-yard individual relay at the ACC Championships.

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Stepping up to lead Duke into championship competition, freshman Michael Miller exceeded expectations by capping off his first postseason meet with a trip to the podium.

Miller finished third in the 400-yard individual medley Friday night at the ACC Championships in Greensboro, n.C. The Blue Devils wrapped up the weekend with an eighth-place overall finish in the toughest conference field to date, breaking four program records in the process.

“The ACC just really stepped up and is really performing incredibly well,” head coach Dan Colella said. “our guys really swam a great meet. our freshman group in particular, to come to their first ACC Championships, i think did an absolutely terrific job. We’re just looking forward to next year.”

Most Duke fans have Saturday’s showdown on the hardwood circled on their calendars. if Mike Krzyzewski’s squad can match what Duke women’s tennis just did against its rival, the Cameron Crazies will be plenty happy.

The Blue Devils knocked off no.11 north Carolina 5-2 in me2 thodical fashion in UNC DUKE 5 front of a comparatively docile crowd Sunday at Ambler Tennis Stadium. “i’m really happy and really proud with how we came out,” head coach Jamie Ashworth said. “The last couple matches we’ve won, but i don’t think we’ve been at our best in all facets.”

Since suffering its first loss of the season, top-ranked Duke (11-1, 3-1 in the ACC) has righted the ship with three consecutive wins, and the squad emerged unscathed from what Ashworth deemed “probably our toughest home weekend all year.”

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The doubles point set the tone for the rest of the tight match. on court two, junior ester Goldfeld and freshman Alyssa Smith fell behind 5-3 before rallying for an 8-6 win against Caroline Price and Whitney Kay, the no. 5 duo in the country.

At the first doubles spot, two top-10 tandems faced off in a back-and-forth affair, with the ninth-ranked pair of Jamie loeb and hayley Carter emerging victorious. The north Carolina duo took the final two games to knock off Duke’s fourth-ranked doubles team of senior hanna Mar and sophomore Beatrice Capra by an identical 8-6 scoreline.

Ashworth had stressed that Sunday’s match would come down to a “couple points here and there,” and that was no clearer than in the third doubles match.

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Second-half drought leads to Duke’s first loss

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After a perfect February, Duke started March off on the wrong foot.

In front of a season-high crowd of more than 5,000 fans, the No. 1 Blue Devils suffered their first setback of the season Saturday when they fell DUKE 6 10-6 to No. 2 MaryMARY 10 land at Byrd Stadium in College Park, Md. After trading goals with the Blue Devils for much of the first half, the Terrapins changed the narrative by scoring seven unanswered goals and holding Duke without a goal for a streak of 26:26.

“They played a great 60 minutes. I thought their goalie was terrific,” Duke head coach John Danowski said. “Defensively, I thought they had a really good gameplan and understood how they play. I’m very proud of our guys’ first-half effort. Certainly we were disappointed in our second-half effort, but the calendar says it’s March 1 and the plan is we’re going to learn from this film and move forward.”

Maryland (4-0, 2-0 in the ACC) leaned on its vaunted defense to seize control of Saturday’s matchup. Goaltender Niko Amato, who had allowed just 14 goals in Maryland’s previous three games, made 17 saves, including six in the second quarter alone. Maryland’s defense, anchored by Jesse Bernhardt, forced 17 Duke turnovers.

“I thought he did terrific,” Danowski said

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Senior attack Jordan Wolf notched two more goals, but a 26-minute scoreless drought was Duke’s downfall in a loss to Maryland. of Amato’s performance. “Their defense does a really good job in front of him and he can see shots coming at him. It’s also the way they’re coached; they do a great job defensively.”

For the Blue Devils, goaltender Luke Aaron put on a one-man defensive show, making a career-high 15 saves. The matchup marked his third straight outing in which he regis-

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“It was a good game,” Aaron said. “The defense was letting me see the shots and the credit goes to them. It started with [Maryland’s] goalie play to [Maryland’s] defense and their offense played really well.”

Senior attack Jordan Wolff, the reigning ACC Player of the Week, extended his scoring streak to 46 games with two goals

Saturday. Senior attack Josh Dionne added another two, and sophomores Case Matheis and Myles Jones each added one. Maryland was led by midfielder Mike Chanenchuk’s five goals.

“Mike [Chanenchuk] has been there for a while and he shoots the ball really well, so it’s tough,” Aaron said. “They executed their game plan.”

Duke (4-1, 0-1) began to falter in the third quarter and couldn’t rally a comeback in the fourth. The Blue Devils still managed to trail by just a goal, but three Terrapin goals in the final three minutes of the third period put Maryland in the driver’s seat with a 9-5 advantage. Despite the efforts of ACC ground ball leader Brendan Fowler, the Blue Devils lost the ground ball battle 8-5 in the third and were failed to find the back of the net after posting only five shots on goal to Maryland’s 14 in the period.

“They scored once off a pick. They scored once off a faceoff. They scored in a bunch of different little ways and they played great,” Danowski said of Maryland’s second-half performance. “During the coaches’ committee, I voted them number one last week and I think they’re a dynamite team. They’re just kind of relaxed, playing at home in front of a big crowd, I thought they were very calm and confident defensively.”

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UNC tops Duke in regular-season finale

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ChAPel hill—For the second time this season, north Carolina dictated the pace of the game, and Duke could not keep up.

Playing in Carmichael Arena for the second rivalry matchup of the season, the no. 14 Tar heels bested no. 7 Duke 64-60, claiming their first sweep since the 2007-08 season. Although Duke is rebuilding from the loss of yet another guard—Alexis Jones, who tore her ACl last week—the Blue Devils struggled the most close to the basket.

“We’re disappointed. We didn’t finish that game as well as we would have liked,” Duke head coach Joanne P. McCallie said. “This is a great team, we can do a lot of neat things, but we have got to go to the basics, and we should have been a better rebounding team today.”

With a starting lineup standing at 6-foot or taller, Duke (25-5, 12-4 in the ACC) jumped out to an early lead, claiming a 13-3 lead with north Carolina (22-8, 10-6) shooting just 1-of-8 from the field.

A pair of Duke turnovers and buckets for the Tar heels cut the lead to five.

“We started out well, that’s fine.

Sometimes i don’t even like quick starts offensively, because i think it blows your focus,” McCallie said. “For us, it wasn’t a full 40 minutes.”

With the Blue Devils up 19-14, Tar heel freshman Jessica Washington found a hole in Duke’s zone defense, nailing a 3-pointer to bring the lead down to two.

Blue Devil senior Tricia liston answered promptly with a trey of her own to make it 22-17—the Blue Devils wouldn’t score again for nearly six minutes.

After three lost possessions, Duke watched as north Carolina freshman forward Stephanie Mavunga grabbed an offensive rebound to put her team within three. A quick 3-pointer and another layup from sophomore forward Xylina McDaniel on the next two possessions gave north Carolina its first lead of the game with six minutes left in the half.

“We settled down and settled in and got some opportunities defensively to get some steals and get some easy scores,” Tar heel associate head coach Andrew Calder said. “once we got some easy scores, the offense started clicking better.”

With two minutes left in the half, freshman forward oderah Chidom came off the bench to grab an offensive rebound and reclaim the Duke lead with a putback, making the score 31-30. north Carolina answered with a McDaniel spin move and Mavunga block to give the Tar heels the lead and the ball with a minute left. A layup, steal and another layup as time expired gave the home team a five-point advantage heading into the locker room. resuming play, Tar heel freshman guard Allisha Gray opened scoring with back-to-back 3-pointers, prompting McCallie to call a timeout. Duke didn’t score on either of its next two possessions, and Gray hit another trey

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Senior Tricia Liston helped to claw Duke back into the game after allowing a 20-0 run before the Blue Devils ultimately succumbed to the Tar Heels. to extend the lead to 45-31. north Carolina extended its run to 20-0 to take a 19-point lead.

“We definitely had a lapse to start the second half in our defensive focus,” senior forward haley Peters said. “Communication on the defensive side has to be better—it was really just like a mental

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Sirk, could not capitalize on the good field position. nearly a year after suffering a ruptured Achilles that forced him to miss the entire 2013 season, Sirk finished the day completing 12-of-28 passes for 83 yards. The redshirt sophomore also added touchdown runs in the second and fourth quarters. “he ran the football well, he made some nice throws and he got better as the game went on, which is what you would expect from a guy who had not played football in a while,” Cutcliffe said.

Trailing 17-14 late in the fourth quarter, Sirk lofted the ball on third down to freshman wide receiver Terrance Alls, but he could not haul it in. Sirk would be stopped short of the markers on the following down, turning the ball over to the Blue team. running back Shaquille Powell secured a Blue victory when he broke away from the White defense on fourth down with 1:19 to play, sprinting into the end zone for a 36-yard touchdown run that gave Blue a 24-14 lead.

Quarterback Anthony Boone split time under center with Connette for the Blue squad, with the duo combining for 154 yards and two touchdowns. Boone struggled, however, throwing for only 33 yards on 10 completed passes.

Duke fans also got their first glimpse at freshman quarterback Jonathon lloyd, a

lapse. They’re very good, but we kind of gave it away.”

Down 50-31, liston ended Duke’s drought with a layup and assist to Chidom on the next possession. The two scores set the Blue Devils off on a run of their own, scoring 16 points while the Tar heels spent 10 minutes on the floor three-star recruit from Graham, n.C., who enrolled early in January and practiced with the team this spring. he showcased his talent with his legs, running for 18 yards on three carries.

“We have talent [at quarterback],” Cutcliffe said. “We have seen in game situations what Anthony and Brandon can do, now ewe have seen that Thomas made some progress. lloyd played very little, it is all new to him, but you saw the skill and athleticism that he has. The theme has to be consistency at the position. if we get consistency, we are headed in the right direction.”

Cutcliffe said that the two areas he is most concerned about are the offensive and defensive lines. The Blue Devils lost experienced linemen Perry Simmons and Dave harding on the offensive side of the ball and starters Kenny Anunike, Justin Foxx and Sydney Sarmiento on the defensive side of the ball. redshirt senior Dezmond Johnson said that his unit has been working hard this offseason to fill the voids the veterans left behind and combine experience with the talent of younger players. “look for the young guys to step up and play a huge role on the defensive line,” Johnson said. “[Jamal] Bruce, [Jordan DeWalt-ondijo] and i all have experience, but you want to look out for us being more aggressive and being as fast as possible. Trying to stop the play before it gets past us.” experience will be a crucial advantage

without a bucket.

“Good teams make runs, and Duke is a great team,” Mavunga said. “They had their run, we had our run, and it was just a game of runs.” ending the north Carolina drought with 6:29 remaining, Washington converted on a fast break to make the score 52-47. Trading scores for the next few possessions, Gray had her fourth 3-pointer with less than three minutes to play to extend the Tar heel lead to six.

Duke stayed close but could not regain a lead, falling 64-60 in its lowest-scoring game of season.

Despite 20 bench points for the Blue Devils, helped along by a career-high 12 points for junior Ka’lia Johnson, the Duke offense could not match the fierce freshman effort brought by their rivals.

Diamond DeShields’ 18 points on the day made her the first Tar heel freshman to score 500 points in a season, much to her surprise. “everyone has roles on the team… and i think scoring is a role too, and i’m good at having that role of scorer,” DeShields said.

“So, 500 points—i don’t know—that’s cool.”

The rivals could meet again as both teams turn to preparation for the ACC Tournament in Greensboro, n.C. earning two byes as the second seed in the tournament, Duke will use its two upcoming days off practice to get back to basics. “[We have to] dribble less, pass more and rebound like crazy,” McCallie said. “if we can do those things, we’ll be a really good team and we’re excited for the tournament. We’re not very happy, and we get a good chance to play and maybe make ourselves feel a little bit better.” for Duke on both sides of the ball as the program’s older players have watched Cutcliffe transform Blue Devil football into a serious BCS contender.

“We came a long way,” running back Josh Snead said. “Coach cut had a plan, had a vision. he had a lot of guys that believed in his vision. We started out rough, 3-9 two seasons in a row. We built the team.

We are on the plateau of being one of the elite teams in the nCAA.”

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Running back Shaquille Powell scampered for a fourth-quarter touchdown to seal the victrory for the Blue team.

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Sophomore Beatrice Capra could not beat the nation’s top-ranked player for the second straight match, but her team still came out on top.

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gave the Tar heels’ Kate Vialle and laura Slater a game point.

With north Carolina threatening to stage a comeback, the Blue Devils regained their composure quickly, running off the next three points to take the match 8-5 and claim the doubles point.

“That’s the thing about line calls—they do go both ways, and that one went against us,” Mulholland said. “We knew that it was just one more point that they’d won, and it was just about going out and doing what we needed to do.”

The Blue Devils have lost only one dou-

bles point the entire season. More than anything, winning Sunday’s point was a testament to the team’s depth, which is key for them going forward.

“Depth is a coach’s dream and a player’s nightmare,” Mulholland said. “We change our doubles teams a lot—some of it’s chemistry, some of it’s game style, some of it’s just how people are playing at that point in the season. it was us today, but in the past it’s been other [doubles] teams that have pulled it through.”

At the outset of singles, the Tar heels (11-3, 3-1) knotted the match at 1-1 when no. 6 Carter knocked off Scholl at the second singles spot, 6-1, 6-0. Duke then

quickly regained the lead with straightset victories at fourth and sixth singles.

Senior rachel Kahan cruised in the sixth position against Tessa lyons, 6-2, 6-1, and Goldfeld, 18th in the country, proved to be steady in claiming a methodical 6-4, 6-4 victory against no. 83 Kay. Both Mar and Smith had trickier tasks, as they faced off against lefties and struggled initially. no. 92 Smith dropped the first set to Vialle, and Mar fell behind 5-2 against no. 52 Price. however, both righted the ships quickly.

The 45th-ranked Mar stormed back, winning nine straight games en route to a 7-5, 6-4 win at third singles, and Smith took 12of-16 games for the 4-6, 6-2, 6-2 victory. “i’ve been down 5-2 before, and i’ve been up 5-2, but nothing’s ever set,” Mar said. “i just kept fighting for each point. i started to feel myself get a lot of momentum, and i just tried to keep the pressure on.”

For a team without any southpaws, playing against one can be an unwelcome novelty. Ashworth, Duke’s resident lefty, was happy with how Mar and Smith adjusted.

“To be a good player, you have to learn how to be effective against different styles,” Ashworth said. “We don’t harp on it too much, the lefty thing. it affects the serve and it affects your returns a little bit, but they have to be able to adapt, and i think they were able to do that.”

Perhaps the most highly-anticipated singles match was the rematch between loeb and Capra, ranked first and second in the country, respectively. Capra topped loeb earlier this season at iTA national indoors in two close sets, and the show-

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history. Duke has beaten Maryland just twice in eight matchups since the 2011 season, and the Terrapins knocked the Blue Devils out of the nCAA semifinals in 2012. Saturday’s contest marked the last regular-season ACC matchup between the two teams before Maryland departs for the Big Ten next year.

Whether or not the Blue Devils and Terrapins meet again in the postseason, Duke is taking Saturday’s loss as a learning experience before they return to the state of Maryland next weekend for a matchup against no. 8 loyola. “hard work,” Wolf said on how Duke will respond to the loss. “i’m excited for practice Monday and get back to it. We’re going to watch this film and get better from it.”

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down Sunday was hotly contested as well, as Capra took the first set 6-3 before loeb answered in the second.

As all eyes turned to the last match in play, it was ultimately decided by the slimmest of margins. loeb earned a match point off a net cord that just trickled over, and she took advantage when a Capra forehand fell inches wide to claim the match 3-6, 6-3, 7-5.

Despite losing the individual battle, Duke won the war Sunday—exactly in the manner that Ashworth intended. “i thought we came out and started on an emotional high. That was our goal. We talked about that the other night after notre Dame, we talked about it at practice yesterday, we talked about it before the match today,” he said. “it was a good weekend overall.”

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With the addition of two new teams to the conference and stronger, deeper rosters for title contenders, Duke’s eighthplace finish with a predominantly freshman team was a success for the program.

Duke’s final score of 482 points earned eighth place overall, more than 60 points ahead of conference-newcomer Pittsburgh. Six-time defending champion Virginia finished fourth behind Virginia Tech, n.C. State and north Carolina.

Making a splash in his first ACC Championships, Miller’s performances stole the show for the Blue Devils.

The freshman took 13th in the 200yard individual medley finals Thursday night with a time of 1:46.46 after he broke Duke’s record in the event with his 1:45.66 swim in the preliminaries. returning to competition the next day, Miller broke the program record in the 400-yard individual medley twice in one day, qualifying for the A finals with his preliminary time of 3:46.80 then further lowering the mark to 3:46.03 in the finals.

Finishing third, Miller became the first Blue Devil in program history to earn All-ACC accolades as a freshman.

Miller broke yet another Duke record Saturday morning in the preliminaries of the 200-yard butterfly, touching the wall in 1:45.18 and advancing to the B-final, where he finished 12th. “he’s a championship swimmer,” Colella said of his freshman medalist. “he really executed a great race plan, made his moves when he needed it and

really capitalized on his strengths, and he just did the exact same thing [Friday night]. For a freshman to keep that composure during the course of a 400 iM was just absolutely exciting to watch.”

Senior hunter Knight made his bid for the nCAA Championships with a fourth-place finish in the 200-yard breaststroke and a fifth-place finish in the 100yard breaststroke.

Knight posted the fastest time of the preliminary heats in the 200-breaststroke with his 1:55.47 swim Saturday morning and broke his own program record. With a strong back half to his finals race, the senior touched the wall just off that time in 1:55.66, missing the podium by a tenth of a second. “it was a great race, great competition,” Knight said. “i’m happy with how my last ACCs went for sure.”

Competing against notre Dame’s formidable breaststroke trio of Zachary Stephens, Colin Babcock and Cameron Miller, Knight out-touched Miller and tied with Babcock in the 100-yard breaststroke. his final time of 53.43 was good for an nCAA B-standard.

“We couldn’t be more proud of hunter,” Colella said. “We’re going to miss him. he’s been an absolutely terrific leader this year both in the pool and outside the pool. it’s a result of his kind of leadership that’s helped the program grow this year.”

Fellow Blue Devil Peter Kropp took fourth in the event. The freshman got off to a quick start with a 24.76-second split for the first 50 yards and held on for a final time of 53.34 in the A-final heat.

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38 Colored part of the eye 39 Softly, in music 42 Born and ___ 43 Serving on a skewer 45 *King, queen or jack 47 Brian who composed “Music for Airports” 48 The “L” of L.A. 51 Squabbles 52 *Piece of furniture that might be under a chandelier 55 “There ___ is, Miss America” 58 Epic work by Virgil 59 Quick 61 Hybrid kind of battery 63 Vacation lodging purchase … or an arrangement between the two halves of the answer to each starred clue?

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41 Green science: Abbr.

34 Eponym of a number series that begins 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, …

44 Not be conspicuous

35 Munchkin

49 Mined metal

37 Kindergarten basics 40 Bit of pasta, for short

46 Pitchers 50 Hilarious person, in slang 53 “Far out!”

54 Fond farewell

55 Digging tool 56 Put on the payroll 57 Perfect places 60 Ill-fated captain 61 Sgt., e.g.

62 Suffix with Dickens 64 Cubs and White Sox org.

65 Windy City trains

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