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Blue Devils Record Third Shutout Of Year In 6-0 Victory Over Harvard
10/2/2005 12:00:00 AM | Field Hockey
CAMBRIDGE, MASS. ? The No. 4 Duke field hockey team scored six goals for the second straight game Sunday and refused to let Harvard take a single shot in the Blue Devil 6-0 victory at Harvard. Four different Duke players scored to improve the team's record to 9-2. Harvard is now 5-4 this season.
“We had a great team effort today,” said head coach Beth Bozman. “To keep a team like Harvard from taking any shots is really amazing. We talked about what we wanted to do, and we did a very good job of executing.”
Four of Duke's six goals were converted from penalty corners as the Blue Devils held a 12-2 corner advantage over the Crimson. Junior Amy Stopford, playing her second game since returning from the 2005 Junior World Cup in Chile, scored off a corner nine minutes into the game, recording Duke's first goal of the day and her second of the weekend.
Senior Katie Grant, who also returned from the World Cup for the Blue Devils' two games this weekend, netted a pair of goals in the first half -- one off a corner with an assist from freshman Julie Tromp and another off a pass from World Cup teammate Cara-Lynn Lopresti -- to give Duke a 3-0 halftime advantage.
Stopford converted another penalty corner five minutes into the second half with an assist from freshman Laura Suchoski, and from there the freshman and senior classes paired up to ice the win. Tromp, who knocked in Duke's game-winning goal against North Carolina last weekend, scored off a penalty corner with help from senior Nicole Dudek at the 50:19 mark. With only three and a half minutes to play, freshman Marian Dickinson scored her sixth career goal on a pass from Grant.
It was a lonely day in goal for sophomore Caitlin Williams with no shots coming her way, while on the offensive end, Duke found 26 shot opportunities.
Dudek and Grant, the top scoring tandem in the country in 2004, are currently tied for the leading position among the Blue Devils with nine goals, four assists and 22 points in 2005. Duke picked up its third shutout this year while topping its opponents for the weekend, 12-1.
After a four-game road schedule, Duke returns home to host No. 2 Maryland at Williams Field Saturday at 1 p.m.
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