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Email Derek at ds415@duke.edu 3 Duke rowing won its

first ACC gold medal in the program’s history, and the V4 boat responsible has been building chemistry throughout the season.

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Daniel Jones was drafted sixth overall by the New York Giants in the 2019 NFL draft but his connection to current quarterback Eli Manning developed before that.

6 Duke lacrosse went to the

Final Four for the second year in a row, but again could not finish on top, losing to Virginia in a nailbiter.

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Duke women’s golf won it’s seventh national championship in the program’s history. Derek Saul and Winston Lindqwister break down the team’s victory and its star Virginia Elena Carter.

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women’s tennis team went as far as the NCAA semifinals in singles, the farthest of anybody on the team.

12 Columnist Glen

Morgenstern breaks down his thoughts as to why Cam Reddish will not fare well in the NBA.

13 Duke baseball had another

stellar season, but could not get it done in the ACC tournament.

15 Columnist Shane Smith

makes his counterpoint as to why Cam Reddish will thrive in the NBA.

Although my heart is still broken from the Duke men’s basketball squad’s loss in the Elite Eight, it has been a spring to celebrate for Duke sports.

The women’s golf team brought back the first national championship to Durham since 2015, powered by senior Virginia Elena Carta, who was the backbone of the title-winning squad three years after bringing home the NCAA individual title her freshman year, .

Two more Duke teams earned spots in the Final Four—men’s lacrosse and women’s tennis.

Both squads were eliminated in their respective semifinal matchups, with the men’s lacrosse team falling to Virginia on a double overtime goal and the women’s tennis team falling 2-4 to top-seeded Georgia.

The rowing team earned a spot in the Blue Devil history books May 18, as the V4 boat became the first Duke boat to ever win a gold medal at the ACC championships.

It was not just a spring of team success for the Blue Devils, as quarterback Daniel Jones became Duke football’s highest NFL Draft selection since 1987. Jones is the likely successor of current New York Giants’ quarterback Eli Manning, and the pair already have a relationship through Blue Devil head coach David Cutcliffe, who also coached Manning in college.

These are just five of the 27 Blue Devil sports that we cover at The Chronicle—which, if you’re keeping score at home, is every Duke sport there is. And if my first month as Sports Editor is any indication, there’s a lot more to come for our Blue Devils coverage.

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Making waves

ROWING

V4 boat wins first ACC gold medal in program history

By Conner McLeod Managing Editor

Almost every morning at the crack of dawn, Duke travels about 20 minutes away to Lake Michie in order to train and practice in hopes of outworking and eventually outracing their competition.

For four rowers, their dedication and commitment to winning and each other resulted in a payoff in the form of a space in Duke athletics’ history books.

May 18 at the 2019 ACC championship, the varsity four boat—composed of graduate student Tara Christensen, sophomore Anne Klok, and freshmen Amelia Shunk and Olivia Von Stauffenberg, coxed by junior Rani Duff— finished first for the Blue Devils, the first ACC gold medal in the program’s history.

“This is something that we’ve been building towards for four years and it takes a lot of different steps in a lot of different areas to get to a position where, maybe you’re not winning a championship but you’re in a position to win,” head coach Megan Cooke Carcagno said.

“All of the little factors, you can’t do overnight and it’s definitely taken us to this point to be in a position to be this successful.”

Although this feat marks the boat’s first conference finals win, this was not its first time on the water together, and more importantly, not its first first place finish. Christensen, Klok and Duff won their first and second races as a Varsity Four at the Carolina Cup and the Cooper Sprints back in March along with seniors Rhea Bergman and Anna Jenkins and sophomore

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The V4 boat beat out powerhouses like Virginia and Syracuse to help give Duke a second place finish overall on the day.

Caitlyn Carlisle. Shunk joined the four with freshman Elizabeth Butero at the Big Ten-ACC dual in April where the boat won another gold medal. Two weeks later, the same four won again at the Lake Wheeler Invitational, the final stop before etching their names down in history at the ACC championships where Von

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Stauffenberg replaced Butero due to injury.

Throughout it all, the boat gained necessary time together on the water, creating a greater sense of chemistry which proved crucial for its dominating win. Carcagno and the crew learned a lot about each other during the season, and what each one of them brought to

the table in order to contribute to their success.

At the bow seat, Christensen brought a sense of leadership and maturity as a fifth-year on the team. Christensen suffered a sidelining injury during her freshman year, but came back after graduation to compete and win for the Blue Devils.

“I think that was very very pivotal to our team in just realizing the opportunity that rowing is,” Carcagno said. “Instead of something that you have to do or being motivated by other external factors, she really brought it home why we do this sport and why we fall in love with it.”

The Amsterdam, Netherlands native Klok, in the second seat, brought a lot of experience to the four as a winner of numerous national championships before her arrival to Duke.

“She just brings a very professional, levelheaded game to what she does on-and-off the water,” Carcagno said. “She’s a very good teammate...just a fiery competitor and a ton of racing experience. I think that composure lends itself very well to the chemistry of the boat.”

One of the youngest members of the team, the 2019 ACC Freshman of the Year Shunk provided the energy and motor the team needed to overcome obstacles along the way.

“She is wildly spirited, a ton of energy, always a mile high,” Carcagno said. “I think that type of person, especially at the stern of your boat, just really leads the charge in terms of enthusiasm...she’s the type of person that See ROWING on Page 15

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FOOTBALL

Jones and Manning look to further cultivate mentor relationship

By Derek Saul Sports Editor

NASHVILLE, Tenn.—When Daniel Jones and Eli Manning see each other next, it will not be their first meeting.

After growing up watching Manning in the spotlight for years, Jones will be tasked with learning everything he can from the New York Giants’ incumbent starter as New York selected Jones to be Manning’s eventual replacement.

The comparisons are obvious between the new teammates—both are tall, strong quarterbacks with a quick release, and of course a shared college coach in David Cutcliffe.

But learing from Manning is not a new task for Jones. In fact, he has done it for years.

Through the Cutcliffe connection, Manning came to Duke for offseason workouts on numerous occasions, and Jones was always eager to pick Manning’s brain.

“They’ve already spent a lot of time around each other,” Blue Devil head coach Cutcliffe said.

“So while Daniel was here and [Manning worked out], Daniel’s eyes got big, and Daniel watched and begged to come into film studies [with Manning]. So they’ve been around each other, and are real comfortable with each other.”

Often noted as a quarterback guru, it was only a matter of time before Cutcliffe found his guy at Duke.

After coaching three top-five picks in the NFL Draft at the position—Heath Shuler, Peyton Manning and Eli Manning—in his stints as offensive coordinator at Tennessee and head coach at Mississippi, Cutcliffe kept a

low quarterback profile for much of his time in Durham. Since taking over for the Blue Devils in 2008, Cutcliffe did not attract anybody that could stack up to the Manning brothers. That is, until Jones came along.

Entering Duke without a guaranteed scholarship, Jones rose through the Blue Devil ranks quickly, getting the starting nod under center as a little-known redshirt freshman.

The 6-foot-5 signal caller shot up draft boards as quickly as he rose through the Duke depth chart, and was the second quarterback off the board in the draft.

And for Cutcliffe, who has now coached four top-10 picks at the most important position in football, the secret is simple.

“I think that coaching is trust. It’s relationships. If you gain trust and you build a relationship, you can coach quarterbacks as tough as you coach left tackles,” Cutcliffe said.

“If there’s another thing I’ve done good, it’s obviously I know how to pick em. If you pick the right ones, you’ve got a chance at being a good coach.”

Cutcliffe certainly picked the right ones in the Manning brothers. Peyton Manning won five MVPs, has the all-time passing yards record and is in the discussion for the greatest quarterback of all time. Although Eli Manning never quite reached the level his brother did, he still managed to win two Super Bowl MVPs and to put himself in the Hall of Fame conversation.

Now, Eli Manning faces a new challenge: grooming his successor. The mentor of both of the Mannings and Jones thinks that both are up to the task.

“To live in that household, growing up [Eli] had to be a fierce competitor as the youngest son,” Cutcliffe said. “They both have that [competitive] temperament, which will serve Daniel well playing in the National Football League, period. And he will still be hungry, no different than Eli is, after 12 years, 14 years, 15 years. I never saw Peyton’s hunger change.

Daniel Jones has got that.”

If Jones is to have a Manning-esque career, he has a long way to go. While Jones put together some eye-opening performances in his time as a Blue Devil, he struggled to put it all together. For every game that he had like his career-capping six-touchdown, 423-passing yard effort in the Walk-On’s Independence Bowl, there was a game in which the Charlotte Latin School product struggled to make an impact, such as against Wake Forest last November, when he completed less than half of his passes and threw for only 145 yards.

In his three years as the starter, Jones completed 59.9 percent of his passes and averaged 6.4 yards per attempt. To put that into perspective, Kyler Murray, who went firstoverall to the Arizona Cardinals, completed 67.4 percent of his passes and averaged 10.4 yards per attempt, and Dwayne Haskins, who went 15th to the Washington Redskins, completed 70 percent of his passes and averaged 10.3 yards per attempt.

Although Murray and Haskins, the only other quarterbacks drafted in the first round of the 2019 draft, did play in more passing-friendly offenses in college, Jones certainly has work to do to prove he can start at the NFL level. And

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Jones started for three seasons at Duke.

Jones is ready to put in that work.

“There’s no one more excited than I am for this opportunity. No one’s going to work harder at it than I will,” Jones said. “My immediate goal is to be the best teammate I can. I am eager to learn and eager to work. I can’t wait to get to work.”

While many pundits and fans are skeptical, to say the least, of Jones going at No. 6, nobody can take away from Jones the fact that he improbably worked his way from an unknown to an NFL team’s quarterback of the future. Yet, Cutcliffe, who knows quarterbacks as well as anybody else, always saw it coming.

“There was never a doubt in my mind he was going to end up being a star,” Cutcliffe said.

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Duke men’s lacrosse falls to Virginia in Final Four off late surge

By Dilan Trivedi Associate Sports Editor

PHILADELPHIA–Looking to get back to the title game for the second straight season and avenge last year’s loss, the Blue Devils fell one game short.

For just the second time in the last 21 matchups, No. 2 Duke lost to Virginia, falling 13-12 at Lincoln Financial Field Saturday afternoon. In a tale of two halves, the Cavaliers offense came alive in the final 30 minutes after being shut down in the first half while Alex Rode fended off Duke’s offensive onslaught in cage to upend the Blue Devils in double overtime.

“You know, they clearly beat us, and it was a terrific — very proud of our guys for hanging in there with them. Our guys gave great effort as well, but they were just clearly the more skilled team,” head coach John Danowski said.

With the score tied at 12, Petey LaSalla won Virginia’s seventh straight faceoff to give the No. 3 Cavaliers the ball in the first OT. After using a timeout to set up the offense, Virginia could not find paydirt and gave Duke a chance to win. Two huge Rode saves – pushing his total to 19 on the day – staved off the Blue Devils offense and sent the game to a second extra period.

LaSalla won yet another faceoff to open the second overtime and this time, the Cavaliers converted. Ian Laviano scored the game-winning goal, his fourth of the game, off a pass from Matt Moore to send his squad to the national championship game, the 10th in program history.

Despite holding Virginia to 50 percent shooting on just four shots on goal in the opening half to

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Brad Smith scored three goals in his final game in a Blue Devil uniform in the team’s loss. take a 5-2 lead, Duke could not slow the Cavaliers offense in the second half. Virginia tallied five goals in the third, scoring three straight after going down 8-4 with just over 7 minutes remaining in the penultimate quarter to enter the final period down just one.

“We knew they were going to go harder in the second half,” defensemen Cade Van Raaphorst said. “They went into the invert package pretty much ever possession, whether it was lack of communication or something, but we just couldn’t make the stops we needed to and couldn’t clear the ball when we had to, and they capitalized on it.”

Although Duke’s Brian Smyth and Kevin Quigley notched a pair of goals in the first 64 seconds of the fourth quarter to extend the lead back to three, the Cavaliers had another response waiting. After Brad Smith and Laviano traded goals, Virginia cut the gap to two off an extra-man goal from Dox Aitken. The junior midfielder then

completed a hat trick, scoring with 7:55 left in the contest to cut the lead in half at 11-10.

The Blue Devils responded with a Quigley goal with 1:56 left but the Cavaliers won the ensuing faceoff. Despite Virginia turning the ball over, Duke’s Terry Lindsay threw the ball away on the clear to give the Cavaliers another chance with 1:17 left. Michael Kraus did not waste the extra chance, scoring with 46 seconds left to give his team an opportunity to tie the game. Virginia won the ensuing faceoff with a Blue Devil violation and Laviano scored with 14.4 seconds left to even the contest and send the game to extra time.

“In some ways the game was a microcosm of our season. Our kids at certain times they just get tight,” Danowski said. “They don’t enjoy or they don’t play with a freedom or – you know, they just get tight, whether it’s they just want to win so badly that they get tight, or they want somebody else to make a play, whatever it is.”

The Cavaliers had 36 shots and 19 shots on goal in the second half and overtime, a stark contrast to the opening half. Virginia’s four stars – Laviano, Moore, Kraus and Aitken – combined for 10 goals and seven assists while LaSalla won 18 of 30 faceoffs. Brian Smith led Duke with three goals while three other Blue Devils had two goals each.

Duke finished with 48 shots and 31 on goal for the contest.

“I think offensively the story of the day was shooting. We didn’t shoot the ball that well,” Smith said. “When you get that number of shots and you only score outside of the face-off game, you only score nine goals, that’s not a great shooting day, so I think that would be — that came and reared its head in overtime as well.”

After the Cavaliers broke a 20-plus minute scoring drought to open the third quarter on Aitken’s first tally of the game, CJ Carpenter responded for the Blue Devils on the other end with his second goal of the contest. Another Virginia goal cut the deficit back to two but Joe Robertson connected on his second goal of the day on an extra-man opportunity to keep Duke up three with 7:10 left. Smyth then took the faceoff to the house just seven seconds later for the Blue Devils to give them a four-goal cushion.

However, Petey LaSalla responded just eight seconds later off the faceoff to leave the score at 8-5 with 6:55 left. Goals from Moore and Laviano in the final three minutes cut the lead to 8-7 with 15 minutes left in regulation and set the stage for the finish.

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“Putt”ing Their Duke women’s golf’s Virginia Elena Carta back on podium three years later

By Winston Lindqwister Associate Sports Editor

Three years ago to the day, Virginia Elena Carta stunned the collegiate golf world with a title run that was nothing short of a miracle.

And Wednesday, Carta returned to the podium, this time with her teammates, as the Blue Devils beat Wake Forest to win the national championship.

Although Carta put up solid numbers throughout the 2015 season—earning five top-10 finishes throughout the regular season—the Udine, Italy, native struggled to consistently find a spot on the podium. Yet on the biggest stage of her freshman year at Duke, Carta blew the nation away with an absolutely dominant performance that seemingly came out of nowhere.

The young Blue Devil finished the event with a record-setting 16-under-par hitting at 272, cruising to an individual title by a mammoth eight-stroke margin.

Yet, despite the fanfare of a fairytale freshman year, Carta struggled through injury and inconsistency through the next three years of her Duke career, falling short of bringing home hardware again and again. But when her team needed her most to outlast Arizona and Stanford in the Blue Devils’ 2019 run, the senior delivered to set the stage for Duke to make its decisive run in the grand finals and earn its seventh national title.

“It has been a dream of mine since freshman year to win it as a team, and obviously to do it my senior year, to close out my college career, it’s something very special to me,” Carta said.

“Definitely, it’s a big win after a dry period, yes. But it couldn’t get anymore special than a win with the whole team, and knowing that we really had each other’s back until the very end.”

Indeed, Carta’s road to her second national title was anything but perfect. Injuries and illness plagued the young Blue Devil through her sophomore and junior year, making her historic tournament performance seem more a flash in the pan than a standard for the future.

In her second year at Duke, Carta notched just two top-10 finishes and one top-5 mark throughout the regular season, hitting at a 73.39 stroke average—nearly a full stroke higher than her previous season. Junior year was an even greater struggle, with the injury bug limiting the Italian Blue Devil to just eight tournament appearances through the spring.

However, despite the adversity, Carta remained poised as a vocal leader on the sidelines for her younger teammates and even showed flashes of her previous form, finishing at an even par for fifth place in the 2018 ACC tournament.

“If Virginia is able to take care of business, she’s a great cheerleader, even though she’s from Italy and they don’t know what cheerleaders are,” Duke head coach Dan Brooks said of Carta’s contributions on and off the green. “She’s somebody you want to [have], and also, I had the idea in my mind that everyone is following Virginia.”

Of course, Carta’s role on the team extends far beyond sideline motivation. After finally

Courtesy of Duke Athletics Gina Kim played a key role in Duke’s championship run, placing 10th overall at the NCAA championship.

leaving the injury struggles behind her and putting up consistent numbers through the season, the senior showed up as a consistent anchor for the team on the Blue Devils’ road to the title stage.

Tied 2-2 against the Cardinal in the tournament quarterfinals, Carta battled through a back-and-forth affair against Ziyi Wang deep into extra frames. With her final season on the line, the Italian Blue Devil calmly sank a six-foot birdie putt on the 24th to send Duke to the semifinals against the Wildcats.

In yet another match that came down to the wire, Carta was instrumental in the Blue Devils’ 3-2 victory against Arizona with a cool 2&1 win versus Sandra Nordaas to kick off Duke’s scoring. And although the Blue Devil senior didn’t end with an individual win in her final collegiate match, Carta’s contributions paved the way for her team’s success.

“We knew it was going to be a very long day because it was not just the semifinals,” Carta said. “We were hoping obviously to get into the final, as well, so we talked a lot with the team about being patient and just doing our own thing and cheering each other on, and that’s exactly what we did, and not only we won in the semifinals, but we sat at lunch and talked almost about forgetting the semifinals and having the mind ready to go for the next match, which was more important, and the last one, and just putting all we got into that.

“We were tired. I mean, a lot of golf played in a few days, but we did it. We stayed patient and we believe in each other.”

In many ways, Carta’s career at Duke comes full circle from where she began.

As a freshman, she entered a talented but young squad that dodged back-to-back nail biters only to ultimately fall in the semifinals. And although Carta’s individual performance warranted first-place hardware, she wasn’t able to share that feeling of victory with her teammates.

Cut to four years later and Carta is now the leader of a young but talented squad of Blue Devils, where not just her heroics, but those of the likes of freshman Gina Kim and redshirt sophomore Miranda Wang propelled Duke to the end. And Carta will leave this championship-caliber roster as the lone senior, providing the same leadership and guidance to her younger teammates as the likes of alumni Celine Boutier and Sandy Choi gave to her so many years ago.

“I watched the shots on the course and I was impressed and that kept me going and never lost hope,” Carta said. “It’s a special team, and cheering this big thing with the team has been so much fun. We’ll remember forever and the memories will never go away.”

Through her college career, Carta started at the highest peak only to fall in disappointing fashion year in and year out. But through it all, the lone senior showed poise and leadership through her final hurrah up to the very last putt of her collegiate career. Fittingly, Carta holds the rare honor of closing her collegiate career as she started: a champion.

Courtesy of Duke Athletics The team’s chemistry and confidence in one another surely played a big part in its ability to overcome adversity when it counted.

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Mark on History 7TH HEAVEN: Duke women’s golf brings home 7th NCAA Championship

By Derek Saul Sports Editor

For the first time since 2015, a Duke team is a national champion.

Four years after the Blue Devils’ men’s basketball squad cut down the nets in Indianapolis, it’s now the women’s golf team’s time to return to glory.

Second-seeded Duke secured the NCAA championship title Wednesday evening 3-2, taking down No. 5 seed Wake Forest in the final round of match play at the Blessings Golf Club in Fayetteville, Ark. The Blue Devils had defeated No. 7 seed Stanford Tuesday and No. 6 seed Arizona earlier Wednesday in the quarterfinal and semifinal, respectively, to earn the chance to bring home the championship.

“Yeah, I got a little choked up,” Duke head coach Dan Brooks said.

“You know, I’ve been doing this a long time, and plus, we’re running on very low sleep. Ask Virginia [Elena Carta], it’s easy to get emotional when you’re running on fumes. That being said, how can you not get emotional?

This great place, tremendous people and they are passionate. Wow, that’s awesome. It’s great.”

With the match tied at two, the national championship came down to Hole 20 between Duke redshirt sophomore Miranda Wang and Demon Deacon freshman Letizia Bagnoli. After Bagnoli—who was up two after 12 holes—put her second shot in the water, it was Wang’s match point to lose.

And after Bagnoli conceded the final hole, it was all celebrations for the Blue Devils.

The first point of the evening went to Duke, with Ana Belac taking care of business against Wake Forest’s Vanessa Knecht. While Belac cruised to her point, the other four matchups were deadlocked with a national championship on the line.

Duke freshman Gina Kim could not keep up the NCAA tournament magic against the Demon Deacons’ top-ranked golfer and former ACC Freshman of the Year, No. 4 Emilia Migliaccio. Kim found herself in the bunker in Hole 18, and Migliaccio won the hole in order to even the score at one.

After falling in her first two matchups of the tournament, Jaravee

Courtesy of Duke Athletics The women’s golf team is the winningest athletic program in Duke history, and with only one senior on the roster, the team has an opportunity to continue its historic run next season.

Boonchant came through for the Blue Devils, and her par putt on the 19th hole sent Duke up 2-1. Even more impressive for the seventh-ranked golfer was who she defeated: No. 6 Jennifer Kupcho, who won last month’s inaugural Augusta National Women’s Amateur.

Match One took 20 holes to determine a winner, with the Blue Devils’ Virginia Elena Carta and Wake Forest’s Siyun Liu battling back and forth throughout the day, before Liu ultimately prevailed on the 20th hole. Carta nearly fell to Liu after her drive on the 19th hole went in the rough, but the 5-foot-5 senior recovered to force a second playoff.

Duke thrived thanks to a balanced effort in match play. Each Blue Devil secured at least one point Wednesday.

“The cool thing about this team is, you know, we went into all of our tournaments with the idea that any one of them individually could win, win the individual trophy, and that’s the kind of team that is a lot of fun,” Brooks said. “You’re going to get contribution. It makes the pairing party a lot easier, because, you know, we really don’t have to sweat much on who plays who.

And that’s what it felt like, all season.”

Kim played a pivotal role throughout the Blue Devils’ NCAA tournament run. Against the Cardinal, the 36th-ranked golfer secured Duke’s first point of the match, beating No. 3 Albane Valenzuela with a birdie putt on the 18th hole.

The Chapel Hill native similarly dazzled against the Wildcats, and another birdie putt on the final hole powered Kim past her opponent, who was No. 14 Bianca Pagdanganan in this instance.

This time around, Kim did not just earn a point for Duke, but rather punched the Blue Devils’ ticket to the title match with Duke’s third point of the contest.

“Gina Kim hitting that shot on 18, that’s, quote, unquote, an old shot,” Brooks said. “I mean, you do that, doesn’t matter what age you are, you’re the kind of person that can go in a bunker and hit that shot and I think our game is like that. You know, you see freshmen do incredible things.”

With the victory, the Blue Devils are now seven-time national champions, and remain the winningest program in Duke history. All seven titles came under head coach Dan Brooks’ watch, and this is the Blue Devils’ first championship since 2014.

Courtesy of Duke Athletics Jaravee Boonchant’s performances in the later part of her season boosted Duke over the edge to help her team win its seventh national championship.

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Duke women’s tennis’ Kelly Chen advances past NCAA quarterfinals but falls in semifinals

By Spencer Levy Sports Features Editor

Although a storybook ending was not meant to be, Kelly Chen concluded her sophomore season advancing further than all but three players.

With a trip to the NCAA Singles Semifinals only two sets away, No. 21 Chen stormed past North Carolina’s No. 20 Sara Daavettila 6-2, 6-4 to advance to the next round. But in a tightly contested semifinal battle, the Duke sophomore fell to secondseeded Katarina Jokic 5-7, 2-6 at the USTA National Campus in Orlando, Fla. “She definitely has shown with grit and determination that she played with this week, you don’t have to be the most vocal leader. You can lead by example,” Duke head coach Jamie Ashworth said about Chen. “If we can get a team to follow the example that she had this week, it will be great.”

After notching a pair of top-10 wins earlier in the week, Chen matched up with another top-20 player, who Chen had already beaten handily. On April 21 in the ACC Championship match, Chen defeated Daavettila 6-7(1), 6-0, 6-1 at third singles.

In the opening frame Thursday night, Chen jumped out to a quick advantage as the Cerritos, Calif., native broke Daavettila twice and held serve three times. After a deciding deuce point up 5-0, which also served as set and break point, went the way of the Tar Heel, Daavettila closed the gap to 5-3.

But at 40-all on Chen’s serve the next game, the Blue Devil put Daavettila away to record the 6-3 first-set victory.

The second frame followed a similar path to the Duke player’s first set. Chen broke Daavettila in the

first game, held serve in the next and then broke the North Carolina junior’s serve once again to lead 3-0.

With Chen serving on a deuce point in the next game, Daavettila began to inch back into the set with a break to go down 1-3. Chen broke right back and held serve to take a commanding 5-1 lead.

“She got off to a great start,” Ashworth said.

“With the way she had expended her energy, that was important mentally and physically….

She played really aggressive and played with a lot of confidence.”

The match score of 5-1 rapidly turned into 5-2 and 5-3 and finally 5-4 before Chen served out the next game to take the second set 6-4.

Chen became just the fifth Blue Devil to advance to the singles semifinals and the first since 2014 when Duke junior Ester Goldfeld fell to current WTA No. 33 Danielle Collins playing for Virginia in the semifinals.

While Chen’s match with Daavettila brought along a familiar face, her semifinal match against Jokic did not. Chen had not play Georgia’s topline player in singles across her two seasons until Friday evening.

But the preparation for the two matches didn’t deviate much.

“We had the same routine. She was doing some pool workouts with our athletic trainer in the morning trying to loosen up,” Ashworth said. “Then she was warming up with [associate head coach] Matt [Mannasse] and [volunteer assistant coach] Mark [Watt]…. She was as prepared as she possibly could be.”

Like she did the day before, Chen broke Jokic

to open up the match on court three and then held serve to take a 2-0 lead. After a pair of holds, Jokic had to save break points to avoid a 1-4 deficit. On the deuce point, Jokic got the break back en route to four straight games.

Serving for the opening frame, Jokic could not hold serve and Chen responded with two games of her own to knot the set at five apiece. The Bulldog sophomore took the final two games to win the first set 7-5.

After winning four of the final six games of the first set, Jokic surged out to a 4-1 lead in the second to position herself close to a trip to the finals. On a deuce point, only five points away from a Jokic victory, Chen won a crucial point to close Jokic’s lead to 4-2.

On a deciding point in the next game to determine if the second set would go back on serve or Jokic would lead 5-2, Jokic put herself only one game away. In the next game, Jokic won three out

of the first four points to take the 15-40 lead on Chen’s serve.

On the first of potentially three match points, a long rally between Chen and Jokic ended with a missed shot by Chen that flew past the baseline.

After more than a week of matches from the team championship through the singles draw, Chen finished off a sophomore campaign that yielded her best tennis at the end.

“She knew that she was not just representing herself, but our team, our program and our school,” Ashworth said. “She has the ability to one of the best players in the country.”

After the USTA National Campus served as the site for both the team and individual competitions, the final NCAA Tennis event of the year will move to Stillwater, Okla., next year to be hosted

by Oklahoma State. The event will then return to Orlando, Fla., in 2021 before moving north to Champaign, Ill., hosted by Illinois in 2022.

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FROM PAGE 6 half, despite Duke facing a 2-1 deficit. Although the scoreboard displayed a Virginia advantage – a product of five saves from Rode – the Blue Devils had three more shots on goal and four fewer turnovers. The scoring tides changed in the second quarter however, as Duke was able to convert on the offense end while the defense posted a blank sheet. Holding Virginia to just a single shot on goal in the period and totaling five caused turnovers in the half, the Blue Devils jumped to a 5-2 lead.

Smith tallied two goals in the half while Nakeie Montgomery dished out a pair of assists to lead the offense while long-stick defender Van Raaphorst and long-stick midfielder Peter Welch each had two forced turnovers. Virginia will take on the winner of the other semifinal contest, played between topseeded Penn State and No. 5 seed Yale.

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Duke baseball loses, ousted from ACC tournament

By Shane Smith Blog Editor

Duke came into this week looking for its first ACC championship in school history.

Unfortunately in the ninth inning, it slipped out of its reach.

Georgia Tech first baseman Tristin English skied a fly ball that just skimmed off the left field wall and bounced past the glove of Kyle Gallagher for a walk off 5-4 win against the seventh seeded Blue Devils on Friday afternoon at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park.

The second-seeded Yellow Jackets now move on to the semifinals of the tournament, where they will face the third seed N.C. State.

“I said ‘good job’ because I thought it was [a fly out],” head coach Chris Pollard said. “I thought that ball would land about the edge of the warning track. The ballpark played difficult today in left with the way it was pushing, and

we’ve got to go for the catch there. I think even if Gallagher spins there with [Luke] Waddell at second. He’s going to score if the ball drops.

We’ve got to go for the catch I thought it was the right play by Gallagher.”

Duke (31-25) did more of the same from its win over Notre Dame on Tuesday, scoring three runs in the first frame. Catcher Michael Rothenberg, who led the team with five RBIs against the Irish, drove in Kennie Taylor with a single on an 0-2 count and came around to score with Matt Mervis on a base knock from Chris Crabtree.

It didn’t take long for the Yellow Jackets to respond, as English crushed a two-run home run off the Bull in left field, winning a free steak and cutting the deficit to one.

The Blue Devils plated another run in the third, but this time it was Kyle McCann, who blasted his team-leading 23rd home run for Georgia Tech over the seats and onto the right field concourse to tie the game at four.

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Ben Gross started on the hill for Duke, and allowed four runs in five innings of work.

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“We’re a couple pitches there early in the ball game away from having a 4-0 lead,” Pollard said. “I thought that both pitches were pretty well executed pitches. The pitch to English, and certainly the pitch to McCann was a well executed 0-2 pitch. Those guys are just a handful. Both of them are having AllAmerican seasons and they’re a big emphasis on why Georgia Tech is in this position.”

Ben Gross started off the game for Duke, and despite the two home runs that both came with two outs, pitched five strong innings against the Yellow Jackets, who averaged 11 runs per game when the two teams met for a three game series just two weeks ago in Durham.

Pollard then turned to Matt Dockman and Thomas Girard, the two relievers from Tuesday who again delivered shutdown innings until the walk off hit to end the game.

After Georgia Tech (40-16) tied the game in the third, the two teams traded near scoring

chances over the course of the next six innings.

With two on in the top of the sixth, Blue Devil sophomore Wil Hoyle, filling in at shortstop for All-ACC freshman team honoree Ethan Murray, turned on a pitch with a full count that was just tracked down at the warning track in left field by Colin Hall.

Then in the bottom half with runners on first and second for Georgia Tech, it was Kennie Taylor coming up with a diving catch in center field to keep the score even.

Things looked bleak again for the Duke in the bottom of the eight frame, as Hall led off with a double to right field. After Pollard came out for a quick visit to the mound however, the Blue Devils pulled out some trickery.

Figuring that the next batter would try to bunt, Hoyle sprinted to second base looking for a throw over right before Girard made his See BASEBALL ACC LOSS on Page 15

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With more spacing, Reddish will thrive as an NBA playmaker Many basketball pundits tabbed Reddish as the incoming freshman with the most potential last season, and it came with good reason. The Pennsylvania native combines a fluid shooting stroke and above average ball handling skills with a great frame similar to NBA MVP finalist Paul George, attributes that current NBA general managers drool over.

Sure, Reddish doesn’t have great offensive efficiency ratings and certainly not the numbers you’d expect of a top pick, but the truth is that Duke’s offensive system was a Shane Smith poor fit for his game. At Westtown High School, Reddish played point guard and was the team’s primary creator with the ball in his hands. Once he stepped foot in Durham however, he had to defer touches to teammates Zion Williamson and R.J. Barrett, as well as relinquish the lead guard role to Tre Jones.

Not only did the decrease in shots affect his points per game numbers, but he was also put into an off-ball role that he had never been in before. Combine that with the excessive amounts of zone defense that the Blue Devils’ opponents played this year, and the former No. 2 player in his recruiting class never got the chance to create magic off the dribble, and often settled for awkward shots in the soft spots of a 2-3 zone.

Once Reddish gets to the NBA, he’ll find himself with the ball in his hands much more often than at Duke, and with more shooters around him to space the floor, there will be much more room to operate. Not to mention, the NBA’s defensive three second rule makes it nearly impossible to play zone defense.

Another thing to consider with the former McDonald’s AllAmerican is that he has only been playing with a dual-faceted game. Everyone knows that Reddish likes to shoot from deep, and although he has shown great finishing abilities around the basket, he often charges the lane with reckless abandon and racks up the turnovers. According to Hoop-Math.com, only 19.2 percent of his shots came away from the rim and beyond the arc, substantially lower than teammates Jones and Barrett. With his natural shooting prowess, the All-ACC honorable mention selection could become a dangerous scorer at all three levels in the pros, opening up all aspects of his game.

And oh, you can’t ignore the fact that Reddish simply has ice in his veins. According to Ben Swain of WRAL, when Duke is trailing, tied, or leading by more than six in the second half, the talented wing’s three point percentage rises to 41.2 percent, a big step up from his usual 33.3 percent clip.

Whether it was his buzzer beater against Florida State, his game tying three and winning free throws against Louisville, his three to put away Texas Tech in Madison Square Garden, or his three that cut UCF’s lead to one with two minutes to play in the NCAA Tournament, Duke’s so called “third option” became the top dog when the game was on the line, and that, like many of Reddish’s other skills, you just can’t teach.

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of the game. R.J. Schreck led the team individually with two base knocks on the day.

“We faced some good arms,” Taylor emphasized. “Guys that came after Connor [Thomas] like [Luke] Bartnicki and English are really good arms and sometimes you just have to tip your cap to those pitchers. Sometimes we just have to take a little bit more advantage of our offense and staying in our zone.”

The Blue Devils will now have to wait and see if the selection committee offers them a spot in the NCAA Tournament, with teams announced on Monday at noon.

Most projections have Duke in the field as an at-large bid, and Pollard showed similar confidence in his team.

“I’m always going to tell you that I’m confident in our club and our ability to keep playing and have success,” Pollard said.

“What gives me confidence even more so, is that if you look at all the projections from the folks who really know this game, they’ve had us comfortably a three seed for the last several weeks, and I think the way we played this week did nothing to ding that.”

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Finally, Von Stauffenberg was put in at the third seat at the last minute, but was quickly able to find her stride and role for the boat.

“I think the chemistry with all four of them, each coming with a different background was able to click together and find a rhythm is what set that boat apart,” Carcagno said.

This win helped Duke finish second in the ACC championship as a program, inevitably pushing them over the edge to earn an at-large bid for the second time in the program’s history.

The boat will race again at the NCAA Finals as they hope to make waves once again.

“It’s a huge boost of confidence,” Carcagno said. “This is a pivotal moment for our program. We can do this, we are working towards it, we are moving closer to it every single year.”

Derek Saul contributed reporting.

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BASEBALL ACC LOSS FROM PAGE 13 move to the plate. Hall dove back to the bag and froze, and sure enough Austin Wilhite bunted. Girard was able to get a huge first out and keep the runner at second base, allowing Duke to get out of the inning unharmed.

“The reason I went out to the mound was because I wanted to put two plays on,” Pollard explained.

“So we put a play on for the first pitch, and then depending on what happened with that, we had a play on for the very next pitch. I didn’t want to sign both in. We had a plan there and executed it pretty well.”

After scoring four runs on four hits through the first three innings, the Blue Devils could only muster up five for the rest

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