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Duke Earns A No. 3 Seed In NCAA College Cup; Will Host Friday
11/10/2008 12:00:00 AM | Women's Soccer
DURHAM, N.C. ? For the 15th time in school history and the sixth straight year, the Duke women's soccer team received an at-large invitation to play in the NCAA Women's College Cup on Monday and will host a subregional on Friday, Nov. 14 with Radford, South Carolina and William & Mary.
“I am very excited,” said Duke Head Coach Robbie Church. “It is a just reward for our season. We have struggled a little bit in the end, but we have had a great season from day one all the way through. Our RPI was extremely high and we were fourth in the South. To be a seeded team is a real special privilege. A total of 320 teams start the season off and we finish the regular season as one of the top 16 teams in the country is a real privilege.”
Duke received a No. 3 seed and will face Radford (14-1-6) in the first round at 5:00 p.m., on Friday, while South Carolina (11-6-4) and William & Mary (14-6-1) will battle at 7:30 p.m. The second round match will take place on Sunday, Nov. 16 at 1:30 p.m. All three matches will be played at Koskinen Stadium. Ticket prices will be $7.00 for adults, $3.00 for students/seniors and $1.00 for kids under five.
“I am very excited and very humble with it,” commented Church on hosting a subregional. “We have been in this position twice before and we have been shipped out on both of those seasons in recent years. I am just so happy. I really think a lot about our former players -- Casey McCluskey, Carolyn Ford, Carmen Bognanno, Shelly Marshall and others -- players who came into this program and worked extremely hard but didn't get a chance to play at home in the NCAA Tournament.”
With Duke chosen as a host site, it marks the first time since the 2000 campaign that the Blue Devils will host a NCAA College Cup contest in Durham. In 2000, Duke downed Furman, 3-1, in the first round before traveling to Clemson and falling, 2-1 in overtime, in the second round. Overall, the Blue Devils own a 3-0 record in NCAA College Cup contests played in Durham.
The Blue Devils own an 12-5-3 overall record and totaled a 4-3-3 mark in the very challenging Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). Duke is coming off falling in the quarterfinals of the ACC Tournament, 1-0, to 10th-ranked Boston College. On the season, the Blue Devils have been led on the scoring end by KayAnne Gummersall (11 goals, 3 assists), Elisabeth Redmond (10 goals, 4 assists), Lorraine Quinn (5 goals, 5 assists) and Cody Newman (4 goals, 3 assists).
“It is going to be awesome,” commented Quinn on hosting. “I am really excited. I have been here for five years and we have yet to host. For the NCAA committee to have confidence in us and give us that position is awesome.”
Duke's defense has been stellar allowing only 18 goals in 20 matches, including 11 shutouts. Senior goalkeeper Cassidy Powers has posted seven shutouts and a 0.87 goals-against average in 20 starts.
Radford owns a 14-1-6 overall record and is coming off notching a 2-1 victory over top-seeded Coastal Carolina on Sunday in the Big South Championship. Under the direction of 13-year Head Coach Ben Sohrabi, Radford will enter its fourth NCAA Tournament. The Highlanders have put together a pair of 10-game undefeated streaks and registered the third-most wins and the fewest regular season losses in school history.
The last time Radford won the Big South Championship and advanced to the NCAA Tournament was in 2002 when the Highlanders went 15-5-1 and faced off against No. 1 North Carolina in the first round.
Duke and Radford have met a total of two times in school history with the Blue Devils winning both contests. The Blue Devils are coming off making a run to the NCAA Elite Eight in 2007 with victories over 21st-ranked South Carolina, 13th-ranked Georgia and Indiana before falling to 12th-ranked Notre Dame.
“We have to score goals and not give up any,” commented Church on what Duke needs to do to make successful run in the NCAA College Cup. “For the most part of the year, we have done a good job with scoring goals and we have to get back to that. It is just being confident and we started some preparation for that with some work yesterday. We have been real stingy on giving up goals and we have to continue to do that as well. That is going to be a key. We have to come back, have an aggressive mentality and play hungry.”
The NCAA Division I College Cup will be played Dec. 5, 7 at the WakeMed Soccer Park in Cary, N.C. The four No. 1 seeds include University of Notre Dame, an automatic qualifier from the Big East Conference, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, an automatic qualifier from the Atlantic Coast Conference, and University of California, Los Angeles and Stanford University from the Pacific-10 Conference.
The Atlantic Coast led all conferences with eight teams in the tournament. Six teams will represent the Big 12 Conference, the Southeastern Conference and the Pacific-10. Four teams enter the tournament from the Big Ten Conference and the Big East with three teams from the Colonial Athletic Association. Thirty conferences were granted automatic bids for the 2008 championship. The remaining 34 teams were selected at-large.
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Nov. 14
Radford/Duke at 5:00 pm
South Carolina/William & Mary at 7:30 PM
Nov.16
Second round match at 1:30 PM
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