No. 6 Duke Blanks No. 12 Wake Forest, 3-0, On Wednesday

Wednesday, October 12

Durham, N.C.

7 p.m.

Duke University

10-2-1, 4-2ACC

Wake Forest

8-4-1, 3-3ACC

#17/12 Wake Forest

#8/6 Duke

No. 6 Duke Blanks No. 12 Wake Forest, 3-0, On Wednesday

10/12/2005 12:00:00 AM | Women's Soccer

Box Score

By: Duke Sports Information

DURHAM, N.C. ? After notching one of the biggest victories in school history on Sunday, the sixth-ranked Duke women's soccer team backed up the win on Wednesday with a convincing 3-0 shutout of 12th-ranked Wake Forest at Koskinen Stadium in Durham, N.C. The Blue Devils improve to 10-2-1, 4-2 in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), while Wake Forest falls to 8-4-1, 3-3.

Wake Forest started the first half with a shot in the first five minutes of the contest by Camelyn Dillon that went wide, but then the Blue Devils took control of the match. Duke's Kate Seibert got things rolling for the Blue Devils at the 9:17 mark as she broke free from a defender and had a breakaway opportunity, but Wake Forest goalkeeper Kaitlyn Doe slid in front of Seibert and stopped the shot at the top of the box.

Duke junior Rebecca Moros and Seibert added two more scoring opportunities for the Blue Devils before junior Lauren Tippets sent a free kick high towards the goal from 28 yards out in the 19th minute. Doe approached the ball with her hands in the air, but instead of catching it she mishandled the ball and it bounced into the net to give Duke a 1-0 lead. The goal for Tippets was the first of the year and ninth of her career for the Menlo Park, Calif., product.

The Demon Deacons' best scoring opportunity in the first half came just before Tippets scored as Dillon sent a ball to a streaking Sarah Kozey, but Duke goalkeeper Allison Lipsher charged at Kozey and forced her to the left of the box. This gave Blue Devil defender Rachel-Rose Cohen time to take the ball away and lead Duke back on the attack.

At the end of the first half, the Blue Devils led 1-0 and held a 7-1 shot advantage.

Both teams started the second half trading shot attempts before Duke's Moros took control of the match in the 66th minute. Junior Darby Kroyer sent a feed down the right side to Moros who raced down the field and was able to beat her defender. A native of Larchmont, N.Y., Moros then sent a blast off her right foot from 15 yards out that hit the left corner of the net beating Demon Deacon goalkeeper, Heather Currie.

The goal for Moros was her third over the last two contests and she now leads the Duke team with four on the season. This comes on a day where Moros was selected Soccer America National Player of the Week and to the Soccer Buzz National Team of the Week.

Duke continued to control the rest of the match taking two more shots by Tippets and senior Carolyn Riggs. Riggs made another run at the Wake Forest goal in the 83rd minute and was fouled at the top of the box. Kroyer was sent to take the free kick for the Blue Devils from 21 yards out. A product of San Ramon, Calif., Kroyer fired the ball between the posts on the left side with her right foot for her third goal of the season.

Finishing with her seventh shutout of the year, Lipsher played the entire 90 minutes in goal for the Blue Devils and finished with four saves. Lipsher, from Honolulu, Hawaii, owns a 0.39 goals against average and has allowed only five goals this season. For the Duke defense, it has now registered eight shutouts in 2005. After scoring only three goals in their first four ACC contests this season, the Blue Devils have now scored five goals over the last two matches.

The Blue Devils have now won eight straight against Wake Forest and improve to 7-0 all-time in matches played in Durham against the Demon Deacons. For the game, Duke outshot WFU, 16-6.

Duke will next host Maryland on Sunday at 2:00 p.m.

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Duke's Post Game Quotes

Junior Midfielder Lauren Tippets

On the impact of Duke's 2-1 victory over North Carolina on Sunday:

“We knew that we had to take the ACC one game at a time. It gave us a lot of momentum and confidence coming out of the game, but we knew that the pressure was on us because if we didn't win this game then a lot of people might discredit the win over UNC. We kept it in the back of our minds, but we used the confidence that it gave us to propel us into this game.”

“I think the team really connected well today. We played quickly. We played with the same kind of intensity that we played with when we played Carolina on Sunday. We got a lot of people into the attack. I think all those factors helped in our win tonight.”

Head Coach Robbie Church

On the effect of the win over UNC:

“Obviously you worry about can we move on and how quickly can we move on, but that question was answered our first practice on Monday. They came into our first practice on Monday focused. It was a great win for them on Sunday.

[Beating North Carolina] is one of our goals, but it's not our whole season.”

“I just told [the team] that was one very, very impressive performance. To come back after Sunday's physically and emotionally draining game and okay like that is outstanding.”

On the recent play of Rebecca Moros:

“I thought Rebecca, with a ton of our other players, had a great game. One of the things that we needed when we lost Casey McCluskey and then we lost Lorraine Quinn, both of them, was that we needed players to break people down on the dribble and really run and attack them. And that's what you saw her, what she can do at the end. She really ran at the defender. She unfooted the defender and got her unbalanced and finished with a great finish. She's been close all year, like a number of our players have been, and she's stayed with it and stayed with it and was just able to finish things.”

Junior Midfielder Rebecca Moros

“We knew that [Wake Forest] had a longer break than we did to get ready for the game and they'd be fresh so we thought it was particularly important to come out hard for the first 20 minutes and make a statement that that wasn't going to make a difference, that they weren't going to match our energy.”

“I think that we're just connecting very well with each other. Every line is just really in synch with the one in front of it and the one behind it and it's starting to flow and I think it's showing how good we're going to be and how well we'll finish up the season.”