No. 12 Blue Devils Shine in 7-1 Win Over Longwood

Friday, August 19

Durham, N.C.

7 P.M.

Duke University

1-0-0, 0-0-0

Longwood (EXH)

0-1-0, 0-0-0

Longwood

Duke

Photo by: Duke Athletics

No. 12 Blue Devils Shine in 7-1 Win Over Longwood

8/19/2022 11:38:00 PM | Men's Soccer

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DURHAM – No. 12 Duke men's soccer used a barrage of goals to power past Longwood, 7-1, in the final exhibition of the season on Friday night at Koskinen Stadium.

The Blue Devils outshot the Lancers 22-4 on the evening and were led on offense by four points from freshman Kenan Hot.

How It Happened

Sophomore Shakur Mohammed opened the scoring just 53 seconds into the game off a great pass from Hot and the Blue Devils never looked back.
Senior Scotty Taylor scored his team leading third goal of the preseason just under six minutes later, following a strong cross into the box from junior Nick Pariano.
Pariano added his own goal in the 26th minute before freshman Wayne Frederick scored his first goal to give a Duke a 4-0 halftime lead.
Hot finished the day with a goal and two assists, picking up the first points of his career. The midfielder has started all three preseason games since arriving in Durham.
Duke continued to pour on goals in the second half, as Hot scored his first and Miguel Ramirez chipped one over an out of position Longwood goalkeeper to make it 6-0.
Junior Luke Thomas polished off a victory by scoring the goal of the match, blasting a one-time volley from outside the box past the outstretched goalkeeper for a 7-0 lead.
Longwood got a late goal off a corner kick from Matt Fitzer to cut the lead to 7-1, but Duke remained in control for the remainder of the match.

Notes

The Blue Devils complete an undefeated preseason for the first time since 2014.
The seven goals by Duke are the most in any preseason or regular season game since 2014, when the Blue Devils defeated Stetson, 8-2, on Aug. 31.
Graduate students Eliot Hamill and Peter Wentzel combined to hold Longwood in check in net with Hamill going 57 scoreless minutes to open the game.
Duke outscored their opponents 11-2 over the preseason.

The Blue Devils will be back in action to open the regular season, hosting San Diego on Friday, Aug. 26 at 7:30 p.m. The game will be streamed on ACC Network Extra.

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