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10/31/2006 12:00:00 AM | Women's Soccer
Blue Devils Head To ACC Championship This Week...
The Duke Women's Soccer Team will head to the ACC Championship this weekend, which will be played at the SAS Soccer Complex in Cary, N.C. The Blue Devils are seeded seventh and will face sixth-ranked and second-seeded Florida State on Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. The match will be aired live on ACC Select with Evan Lefpler calling the action.
Duke enters the championship with a record of 9-7-2 overall and 5-4-1 in the ACC, while Florida State is 13-2-3 overall, 5-2-3 in league action.
Notebook...
Duke concluded the ACC regular season with a 5-4-1 league record, which was tied for sixth along with Virginia. The Cavaliers won the tiebreaker and the Blue Devils were seeded seventh. If Duke would have defeated 13th-ranked Wake Forest on Sunday, the Blue Devils would have earned the second seed in the championship.
ACC Select...
The contest against Florida State will be aired live on “ACC Select,” which is a new broadband experience that gives you the best seat in the house for the sports you love, the team you care about and the games you can't see anywhere else. With full-screen video delivered right to your computer, you'll feel like you're actually at the event. Just head to duke.accselect.com or GoDuke.com for additional information.
In The Rankings...
In the latest rankings, Blue Devils are not ranked. Florida State is listed sixth in the Soccer Buzz, Soccer America, SoccerTimes.com and NSCAA national polls.
Duke In the ACC Tournament...
Duke owns an all-time record of 11-18-2 in the ACC Tournament over the 18 years. The Blue Devils have advanced to the semifinals each of the past four years and 11 times in their 18 appearances.
The Series...
Duke leads 7-3-2 but the Seminoles own a 3-2-1 record against the Blue Devils since 2001. Duke has fared well at home posting a 4-0-2 record against Florida State. This will mark the first match-up between Duke and Florida State in the ACC Tournament.
Series Results:
1995 in Tallahassee, Fla. -- W, 2-0
1996 in Durham, N.C. -- W, 3-0
1997 in Tallahassee, Fla. -- W, 3-2 (OT)
1998 in Durham, N.C. -- T, 0-0 (OT)
1999 in Tallahassee, Fla. -- W, 3-1
2000 in Durham, N.C. -- W, 3-2
2001 in Tallahassee, Fla. -- L, 3-2
2002 in Durham, N.C. -- T, 1-1 (2OT)
2003 in Tallahassee, Fla. -- L, 3-0
2004 in Durham, N.C. -- W, 2-0
2005 in Tallahassee, Fla. -- L, 2-1 (2OT)
2006 in Durham, N.C. -- W, 3-1
Fab Freshmen...
The freshman class that was ranked third-best in the nation has produced well so far this season scoring 10 goals and posting 11 assists, while all five have started at least one contest.
KayAnne Gummersall leads Duke with seven goals scored and 16 points as she has started six contests, while playing in all 18. Elisabeth Redmond has started 16 of 18 contests in both the midfield and forward positions. She has scored three goals and assisted on seven others.
Gummersall needs three more goals to tie a Duke freshman record for goals in a season (10). Redmond needs four assists to tie the Blue Devil freshman record for assists in a season (11).
Sara Murphy has started 15 of 17 matches on the defensive end, Jane Alukonis has started 13-of-18 games and CJ Ludemann has seen action in all 18 contests with one start.
Gummersall and Redmond lead Duke with three game-winning goals each.
Four Blue Devils Earn All-ACC Honors...
The Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) office released the 2006 All-ACC squads on Tuesday with four Blue Devils earning accolades. Senior's Rebecca Moros and Darby Kroyer were named to the All-ACC first and second teams, respectively, while KayAnne Gummersall and Elisabeth Redmond each were selected to the All-Freshman team by a vote of the league head coaches.
Tough In The Net...
Junior Allison Lipsher is once again proving she is one of the top goalkeepers in the nation. On the year, she has posted seven shutouts, a 0.95 goals against average and 56 saves in 18 matches. Over her career, Lipsher has collected 24 shutouts, which ranks second on Duke's all-time record charts.
Lipsher is coming off a netting a career-high eight saves against 13th-ranked Wake Forest on Sunday in a 1-0 loss.
Blue Devil Defense...
The Duke defense has gone through some change in 2006 after the loss of senior center back Carolyn Ford and senior Heidi Hollenbeck. The Blue Devils have started a number of different defenders this year. After moving from the forward position as a freshman, Christie McDonald has moved to the center back and has played very well. This is a position she played growing up.
Other members of the Duke defense as of late have been senior Rachel-Rose Cohen, sophomore Kelly Hathorn and senior Rebekah Fergusson. Freshman Sara Murphy has also started 15 of 17 matches in the back. The defense has registered seven shutouts on the season.
Duke Scoring...
The Blue Devils have outscored their opponents, 13-6, in the first half so far this season, but Duke has allowed 13 goals in the second half. Overall, eight different Duke players have scored goals and the Blue Devils have outscored opponents, 29-19. In four of Duke's seven losses this season, it has been shutout.
Prior to the 1-0 loss at Wake Forest on Sunday, Duke had outscored its opponents, 8-4 over the last three contests.
The Record Book...
With 18 games in the books for 2006, senior Sarah McCabe continues to move up the Duke scoring charts. She owns 24 goals, which ranks tied for sixth on the list. She has registered 56 points to rank 10th in the record books.
Senior Rebecca Moros is collected 20 assists to rank tied for fifth and senior Lauren Tippets has 21 assists to rank fourth. Junior Allison Lipsher continues to move up the shutout list with 24 in three years and needs 10 more to tie the Duke record.
Home/Road Contests...
So far this season, Duke owns a 5-3-1 overall record in home matches, 4-2-1in road contests and is 0-2 in neutral games.
Overbeck Inducted Into Hall of Fame...
National Team and professional league stars Alexi Lalas and Carla Overbeck, Veteran Al Trost, and Builder Philip Anschutz joined the soccer legends on August 28 at Induction 2006. The four members of the Class of 2006 join the 260 previous inducted soccer players and builders who have been elected to the Hall of Fame.
Lalas, presented for induction by U.S. Soccer President Sunil Gulati, is the 5th member of the 1994 U.S. World Cup team to be elected to the Hall.
Overbeck, a two-time World Champions and an Olympic Gold and Silver Medalist, joins four teammates form the 1991 U. S. Women's Team that won FIFA's first Women's World Cup. She was presented by the coach of the 1999 Championship side, Tony DICicco. Overbeck is currently an assistant coach for the nationally ranked Duke Women's Soccer Team.
Trost, a two-time winner of the Hermann Trophy as the top player in collegiate soccer, went on to become a North American Soccer League All-Star and captain of the U.S. National Team in the 70s. Trost was introduced by noted soccer broadcaster and Saint Louis University teammate Bill McDermott.
Anschutz, one of the most creative visionaries in soccer today, received the National Soccer Medal of Honor at the President's Dinner on Sunday evening in addition to being inducted into the Hall of Fame. Chris Henderson of the New York Red Bulls made the Anschutz introduction.
Close Games...
With exception to Duke's 3-0 loss to North Carolina, Duke has lost six matches by a total of six goals.
Earlier This Year Versus Florida State...
For nine Blue Devil seniors, the women's soccer match at Koskinen Stadium on Oct. 22 could have not gone much better as 23rd-ranked Duke upset third-ranked Florida State, 3-1, on senior day. Prior to the contest, nine Duke seniors were honored along with their families as the group had led the Blue Devils to 51 wins and three NCAA Tournament appearances.
The group of seniors hoped the win on Sunday will boost the Blue Devils to a fourth straight NCAA Tournament appearance as Duke knocked off a top-five ranked team for the fourth consecutive year.
All nine Blue Devil seniors-- Jenny Alleva, Rachel-Rose Cohen, Rebekah Fergusson, Erin Hathorn, Darby Kroyer, Sarah McCabe, Rebecca Moros, Katie Roark and Lauren Tippets-- started the match on Sunday and held Duke tight with the Seminoles.
Florida State controlled most of the first half and went at the Blue Devils early as Selin Kuralay hit the crossbar in the 10th minute, marking the first shot of the contest. At the 34:22 mark, Moros headed a shot at the Seminole goal that keeper Ali Mims saved for Florida State. Mims got the Seminoles back on the attack quickly and then India Trotter served in a ball from the right side of the field to Kuralay, who headed the ball at Blue Devil goalkeeper Allison Lipsher, who got her hands on it but could not hold on as Kuralay registered her 10th goal of the season at the 35:02 mark.
Duke went on to outshoot Florida State, 5-4, in the first half, but the Blue Devils didn't have an excellent scoring opportunity.
After a rousing halftime speech by Church, Duke came out in the second half and played some of its best soccer of the season. This showed on the scoreboard as the Blue Devils evened the match just one minute and eight seconds into the second stanza. Both McCabe and sophomore Lorraine Quinn found Moros on the right side of the box, who was able to fire a shot from 10 yards out into the left corner of the goal for her fourth tally of the year.
Duke took eight out of the first nine shots of the second half and kept the ball on the Seminole side of the field. The Blue Devils kept putting the pressure on Florida State and in the 74th minute Tippets had a corner kick that went out of bounds. Tippets got another chance less than two minutes later and capitalized as she sent a perfect corner kick to freshman Elisabeth Redmond, who headed the ball towards the goal. Kroyer was able to get a heel on it and pushed in her third goal of the year to give Duke its first lead of the contest. Kroyer, who is from San Ramon, Calif., posted her 20th career goal, while Tippets registered the 20th assist of her career to move her into a tie for sixth on Duke's charts.
The Blue Devils held on with tight defense and then put the match away in the 86th minute as Lorraine Quinn posted her first goal of the season. Florida State decided to remove its goalkeeper and Kelly Rowland took over in the net in the 84th minute. Rowland played a sweeper style position playing farther up than normal and Quinn made the Seminoles pay as she sent a shot over Rowland's head from 40 yards out that went in the middle of the goal to give Duke a 3-1 lead.
Out of Duke's 11 points from three goals and five assists, Blue Devil seniors had six of those points. Duke outshot Florida State, 12-3, in the second half and 17-7 for the contest. In goal for the Blue Devils, Lipsher allowed one goal in 90 minutes, while posting zero saves. Mims added two saves in net for FSU.
Senior Tri-Captains...
Duke boasts senior tri-captains in 2006 as Darby Kroyer, Rebecca Moros and Rebekah Fergusson were selected by the team.
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