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Duke Blanks Notre Dame In Second Half for 16-4 Victory In Women's Lacrosse
4/13/2001 1:00:00 AM | Women's Lacrosse
New Haven, Conn.---The fourth-ranked Duke women's lacrosse took away all the luck of the Irish in the second half on Friday afternoon at Johnson Field in New Haven, Conn., shutting out the Fighting Irish in the second half to earn a 16-4 victory. Neither Friday the 13th, Good Friday, nor Notre Dame (7-3) could stop Duke (10-2) from tying a school record for consecutive wins with its eighth consecutive victory.
Duke opened up the scoring just 37 seconds in when senior attacker Claire Finn (Newton, Ma.) fired a bouncing shot past Notre Dame goalie Jen White. Kate Kaiser (Cockeysville, Md.) doubled the Blue Devil lead at the 23:28 mark with her first of a game-high four goals on the day. Kaiser has scored 17 goals in her last four games. She also added two assists on the day to give her six points.
Notre Dame midfielder Danielle Shearer scored two of the next four goals to keep the Blue Devil lead at 4-2, before Lauren Gallagher (West Chester, Pa.) tallied her first of three goals to push the Duke lead back to three goals. Notre Dame then scored twice in the last minute of the half to bring the score to 5-4.
That was the last time a Notre Dame shot would get past Duke goalie Kristen Foster (Ellicott City, Md.). Foster made nine saves on the day, four of which came in the second half, sparking an 11 goal barrage in the second half. A plethora of Blue Devils contributed in the scoring column, including freshmen Meghan Miller (Severna Park, Md.) with one goal, Lauren Kickham (Ellicott City, Md.) with one goal and one assist, and Cheryl Lynn Horton (Walnut Creek, Ca.) with two goals. Duke returns to action on Saturday when it faces Yale at Johnson Field at 1:00 PM.
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Score by Half 1 2 F Notre Dame Fighting Irish 4 0 4 #4 Duke Blue Devils 5 11 16 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tm Time Goal (Assist) NOTRE DAME DUKE FIRST HALF Duke 29:23 Finn 0 1 Duke 23:28 Kaiser 0 2 ND 20:22 Shearer (FPS) 1 2 Duke 16:37 Kaiser (FPS) 1 3 Duke 15:16 Rodgers (Kaiser) 1 4 ND 12:35 Shearer (Loftus) 2 4 Duke 7:50 Gallagher 2 5 ND :56 Moser (O’Shaughnessy) 3 5 ND :31 Kinnick 4 5First Half Stats-- Shots: Duke 11, ND 10 Saves: Duke 5, ND 4 Caused Turnovers: Duke 8, ND 5 FPS: Duke 1-2, ND 1-5 Turnovers: Duke 8, ND 10 Fouls: Duke 14, ND 7 Draw Controls: Duke 4, ND 6 Ground Balls: Duke 8, ND 15
SECOND HALF Duke 27:09 Dirks (Gallagher) 4 6 Duke 25:37 Kaiser (Sullivan) 4 7 Duke 24:44 Rodgers (Dirks) 4 8 Duke 10:03 Kaiser 4 9 Duke 18:54 Gallagher 4 10 Duke 17:50 Miller (Soulier) 4 11 Duke 16:30 Gallagher (FPS) 4 12 Duke 16:18 Kickham (Kaiser) 4 13 Duke 17:40 Horton (Soulier) 4 14 Duke 7:45 Horton (Kickham) 4 15 Duke 1:17 Gordon 4 16
FINAL: Duke 16 , Notre Dame 4 RECORDS: Duke (10-2), Notre Dame (7-3)
Notre Dame Scoring Goals: Shearer (2), Moser (2) Assists: Loftus, O'Shaughnessy
Duke Scoring Goals: Kaiser (4), Rodgers (2), Gallagher (3), Horton (2), Dirks, Finn, Miller, Kickham, Gordon Assists: Kaiser (2), Soulier (2), Gallagher, Sullivan, Dirks, Kickham
NOTRE DAME STARTERS Shearer, McCardell, Henwood, Loftus, O’Shaughnessy, Knight, Fedarcyk, Lam, Riley, Delano, Moser, White
DUKE STARTERS Gallagher, Noble, Finn, Dirks, Rodgers, Kaiser, Sullivan, Miller, Soulier, Walters, Wick, Foster
SHOTS Duke - 35 Notre Dame - 13
SAVES Duke - Foster (60:00, 9, 4) ND - White (52:15, 7, 15), Durkin (7:45, 0, 1)
GROUND BALLS Duke - 31 ND - 27
CAUSED TURNOVERS Duke - 17 ND - 8
FREE POSITION SHOTS Duke - 2-5 ND - 1-5
DRAW CONTROLS Duke - 10 ND - 12
FOULS Duke - 20 ND - 9
TURNOVERS Duke - 14
ND -22 ATTENDANCE: 112
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