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Duke Faces Georgia In NCAA Second Round On Sunday
11/18/2007 12:00:00 AM | Women's Soccer
ATHENS, GA. ? The Duke women's soccer team will be playing in the second round of the NCAA College Cup on Sunday afternoon as the Blue Devils will go up against third-seeded and 13th-ranked Georgia at the Turner Soccer Complex at 1:30 p.m., in Athens, Ga.
Duke has advanced to the second round of the NCAA College Cup in each of its last eight appearances and did so on Friday with a 4-1 penalty kick victory over 21st-ranked South Carolina. The match was tied, 1-1, after 110 minutes of play before penalty kicks started. Elisabeth Redmond, Jane Alukonis, CJ Ludemann and Meaghan FitzGerald each nailed their kicks, while the Gamecocks hit the post on their first attempt and Blue Devil goalkeeper Allison Lipsher saved the next shot.
Georgia advanced to the second round with a 6-1 win over Alabama A&M. The six goals scored was an NCAA Tournament record for the Bulldogs.
The Blue Devils (8-5-7) and Bulldogs (18-3-2) will meet on Sunday with the winner advancing to the NCAA Sweet 16, which will be played on Nov. 23, 24 or 25 at a site to be determined. Duke and Georgia have met a total of three times in the overall series with the Bulldogs leading 2-1. The last time the two teams met was in 2004 as Duke cruised to a 3-0 win during the Duke adidas Classic. The victory was the year before Patrick Baker took over the reigns at Georgia as the head coach.
Coming off registering her fourth goal of the season against South Carolina on Friday, junior Lorraine Quinn is now one of five Blue Devils who have scored four or more goals this season. Quinn, a 2007 first team All-ACC selection, has been steady in the midfield all season for Duke. Other Blue Devils who have led Duke in scoring have been Redmond (6 goals, 11 assists), junior Kelly Hathorn (5 goals, 5 assists), sophomore CJ Ludemann (4 goals, 5 assists) and freshman Rebecca Allen (5 goals, 2 assists).
Redmond, a second team All-ACC selection, owns a team-best 11 assists and six goals for a total of 23 points. A native of Morristown, N.J., Redmond has registered three game-winning goals and notched eight assists on goals that have tied or been the game-winning goals of matches this season.
Senior goalkeeper Allison Lipsher led Duke to the second round of the NCAA College Cup for the fourth straight year. A product of Honolulu, Hawaii, Lipsher has allowed only one goal in the tournament over the last 330 minutes the last two years. She has totaled five shutouts and a 0.82 goals against average in 2007.
Duke is making its 14th appearance in the NCAA Tournament and has advanced to the NCAA Sweet 16 on four different occasions -- 1992, 1994, 1996 and 2004. The Blue Devils are making their fifth straight appearance in the NCAA College Cup and have won at least one contest in the tournament each of the last eight appearances.
The ACC led all conferences with eight tournament bids, while the SEC had six teams receive invitations. A total of 30 automatic bids along with 34 at-large invitations were given out this season. The Blue Devils and Bulldogs each received at-large bids.
Sunday's second-round game will be carried live on GXtra, Georgia's premium content website, free of charge to all fans of both schools. The broadcast will feature audio and video coverage, with play-by-play commentary provided by Kevin Copp and color analysis offered by Virginia Clary. Pregame coverage will begin at approximately 1:20 p.m.
Tickets for the game will be available at the UGA Soccer Stadium. The price is $7 for adults and $3 for children and students with a valid I.D. The NCAA Division I College Cup will be played Dec. 7 and 9 at the Aggie Soccer Complex in College Station, Texas.
Notebook:
? The Blue Devils have played nine overtime matches this season, including five out of the last seven contests. Duke is 1-1-7 in overtime matches this year.
? Duke has played three straight ties in the NCAA Tournament and have won two of the three. Overall the Blue Devils have advanced to penalty kicks on four occasions in the NCAA College Cup.
? With Duke scoring first on Friday against South Carolina, it broke a seven-match streak of a Blue Devil opponent scoring first and Duke having to come from behind.
? Freshman Maeghan FitzGerald nailed the clinching penalty kick on Friday against the Gamecocks. It was the first time FitzGerald has scored a goal all season as she had not taken a shot all year.
? With Duke registering so many ties this season, Head Coach Robbie Church had the team start practicing penalty kicks much earlier in the season than normal. The practice helped on Friday against South Carolina.
? The Duke goal against South Carolina by Lorraine Quinn broke a scoreless streak in NCAA Tournament action that spanned 3:22.15. Prior to Quinn's tally, the last time Duke had put the ball in the net was against Yale in the 2005 NCAA Tournament off the foot by Darby Kroyer.
? On the way to the South Carolina match on Friday, the Duke bus got lost and the team did not arrive at the field until there was only 35 minutes prior to the match starting. Due to the Georgia football game this weekend, the Blue Devils are having to stay almost an hour away from Athens, Ga. The trip to the field on Friday took them two hours.
? The Blue Devils have posted a 1-2-3 overall record in true road matches this season.
? Duke has registered seven ties this season which matches the single season record set in 2002.
? Senior Allison Lipsher has registered 31 career shutouts and is three away from tying the Duke career mark held by Melissa Carr, who played from 1992-95. Lipsher is also four shutouts shy of matching the ACC career mark held by Aly Winget (35) of UNC.
? Sophomore Elisabeth Redmond has totaled 11 assists on the season, which is tied for second on the all-time single season chart at Duke. Redmond has also notched a team-best three game-winning goals, while also posting eight assists on goals that have tied the match or goals that were game-winning.
? The Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) office released the 2007 All-ACC squads on Nov. 6 with three Blue Devils earning accolades. Junior Lorraine Quinn and sophomore Elisabeth Redmond were named to the All-ACC first and second teams, respectively, while Rebecca Allen was selected to the All-Freshman team by a vote of the league head coaches.
? Sophomore KayAnne Gummersall continues to be hobbled with an ankle injury that occurred earlier this season. Duke's leading goal scorer from a year ago with seven goals has yet to score this season and has totaled one assist. She missed three matches in October but has played the last five contests. She is still not 100 percent healthy and will not be until after the season is over.
? A total of 10 Blue Devils have scored at least one goal this season, while 15 Blue Devils have posted one or more assists.
? In the NCAA stats prior to the tournament starting, Duke ranks 56th in goals-against average (0.827) and 60th in save percentage (0.83). In the individual categories, Elisabeth Redmond ranks 10th in assists per game (0.58), while Allison Lipsher is 70th in goals-against average (0.821) and 64th in save percentage (0.832).
? Duke has only lost five matches this season and all five came against ranked opponents-- second-ranked Texas A&M (2-0), fourth-ranked Virginia (2-0), 12th-ranked North Carolina (2-1), 25th-ranked Clemson (1-0), 11th-ranked Wake Forest (1-0).
? The Blue Devil defense has not allowed more than two goals in any matches this season.
? Senior goalkeeper Allison Lipsher has totaled three career shutouts in NCAA Tournament action -- Louisville and Tennessee in 2006 and Virginia in 2004. She did not allow a goal in the 2006 NCAA College Cup in 220 minutes.
? Junior's Christie McDonald and Lorraine Quinn are the only current Blue Devils who has scored a goal in the NCAA College Cup. McDonald totaled the fourth and final goal against Fairfield in the 2005 NCAA Tournament and Quinn scored on Friday evening vs. USC.
? Duke has graduated 17 seniors over the last two years and has only one senior that plays significant action.
? Head Coach Robbie Church will be taking his sixth Duke team to the NCAA Tournament and seventh overall team to the postseason (Charlotte in 1998). In 1998, Charlotte advanced past the first round by defeating South Carolina, 2-0, but lost to North Carolina, 6-0, in the next round.
? Kelly Hathorn and Christie McDonald were named ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District III recently. Hathorn earned second team honors, while McDonald was named to the third team.
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