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Friday, October 13
Durham, N.C.
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Duke University
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Boston College
Duke Continues To Roll, Sweeps Boston College
10/13/2006 12:00:00 AM | Volleyball
DURHAM, N.C. ? With 14 players receiving action, the Duke volleyball team was able to sweep the Boston College Eagles, 3-0 (30-21, 30-28, 30-17), Friday night at Cameron Indoor Stadium. With the victory, Duke's ninth straight, the Blue Devils improve to 16-2 overall and 9-0 in the ACC while the Eagles fall to 6-11 and 4-4, respectively. The win also marks Duke's 26th straight at Cameron Indoor Stadium.
Duke jumped out to a 4-1 lead in the first game behind a pair of kills from sophomore Sue Carls and after the Eagles closed the gap, a service ace by freshman Rachael Moss gave Duke a 9-6 lead. The two teams played relatively even most of the rest of the first game and three straight kills by Moss closed out the game and gave Duke a 30-21 victory.
Junior Jenny Shull was brilliant defensively in the first game, coming up with an amazing 15 digs in that game alone. Moss finished the first game with seven kills while junior Ali Hausfeld had 16 assists. From her hot start, Carls had three kills and hit .429 in the first game.
Four kills from four different players gave Duke an early 5-1 lead in the second game but the Eagles fought back and tied the game at 7 apiece and eventually took a 12-9 lead. Some tough serving from Hausfeld, who served five straight points, put Duke up 17-13 and Duke held a 26-20 lead before the Eagles made it interesting by scoring eight of the next nine points to pull within one at 29-28. A Carls kill from Hausfeld ended the game at 30-28.
Carls had five kills in the second game and continued her impressive hitting with a .444 clip. Hausfeld added 15 more assists and also had nine serves in the game while Shull added six more digs and Moss had eight digs in the second game defensively for Duke.
Duke was all over the Eagles to start the third game, as Moss served Duke to a 5-0 lead, senior Polly Bendush pushed the lead to 8-2 and Hausfeld to 15-3 before the Eagles had time to realize what was happening. Duke went to the bench and the Eagles made a little run to pull within 10 at 26-16 before freshman Christina Falcone served four straight near the end of the match to get the win.
Senior Tealle Hunkus led the Blue Devils in game three with five kills while Shull added another 10 digs. Hausfeld hit a perfect 1.000 with three kills and seven more assists. In addition to her strong serving, Falcone added three assists on three attempts at the end of game three, as well.
Shull recorded 31 digs, a season high and the third match this season she's reached the 30-dig plateau. She also moved into fifth place on Duke's all-time career digs list and now has 1,293 career digs.
Moss led the offensive attack with 13 kills while Hunkus had 12 and DeMange 10. Hausfeld had 38 assists and a match-high two aces while adding 11 digs and a pair of blocks defensively. Moss had 15 digs and DeMange reached double-figures, as well, with 12 digs.
Duke finishes an impressive stretch in which they won five matches in eight days, with four of those five matches coming with sweeps.
“We're really excited to have finished this stretch of five matches in eight days like we did and as strong as we did,” said Duke head coach Jolene Nagel. “I really feel like our team is mentally doing a great job of playing with maturity and maintaining our composure throughout matches.”
The Blue Devils will now have a little time off to prepare for a rough road stretch the next two weeks with trips to Florida to face Miami Oct. 20 and Florida State Oct. 22 which will be followed by a swing south to face Georgia Tech Oct. 27 and Clemson Oct. 28. Duke will next play at home on Nov. 1 in a 7 p.m. match against N.C. State.
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