No. 1 Duke Men's Soccer Falls to No. 2 UConn

STORRS, CONN. - The No. 1 ranked Duke University men's soccer team fell 4-1 on Saturday, September 2 to No. 2 UConn in the Bob's Stores UConn Classic. It marks the second-consecutive loss the Blue Devils to begin the 2000 season.

UConn was led by senior Darin Lewis who netted his first career hat trick in front of a crowd of 4,485 fans. Senior Stephen Pate scored Duke's lone goal at the 69:45 mark (assisted by Danny Wymer). Jeff Haywood and Scott Maslin shared time in goal for the Blue Devils.

Duke will host the annual Duke/adidas Soccer Classic next weekend as Long Island, Butler, and N.C. State will come to town. The Blue Devils will host Long Island on Friday at 7:00 PM and then will host Butler on Saturday at 7:00 PM.

**All rankings are from the Soccer America poll.

Connecticut 4, Duke 1

Connecticut (1-1)   2   2   --4
Duke (0-2)          0   1   --1

SCORING- UC- Cesar Cuellar (Roberto Vargas) 29:14; 
UC Darin Lewis (Chris Gbandi, Donny Mark) 43:23; 
UC Lewis (Brent Rahim) 47:19; UC Lewis (Donny Mark) 
57:20; DUKE Stephen Pate (Wymer) 69:45 

SHOTS- UC-11; DUKE- 11 
SAVES- UC- 5 (Bryheem Hancock); 
       DUKE- 4 (Jeff Haywood 1,Scott Maslin 3)
CORNERKICKS- UC- 5; DUKE-1 
FOULS- UC- 16; DUKE- 11

No. 1 Duke Men's Soccer Falls to No. 2 UConn

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