Duke Opens ACC Postseason Action at Wake Forest Tuesday

The First Hit

Duke opens ACC Championship action Tuesday afternoon at 3:30 p.m., taking on host Wake Forest. The Blue Devils are the No. 2 seed with a 6-2 mark in ACC play, while the Demon Deacons are the No. 7 seed with a 2-6 record versus ACC foes.
Duke is 7-1 in its last eight games with all seven victories being shutouts. The Blue Devils are 22-42 all-time in ACC Championship action and 7-5 as the No. 2 seed. This will be the 19th ACC Championship meeting between Duke and Wake Forest with the Blue Devils leading 11-7.
Wake Forest enters postseason action with a 7-10 record and is averaging 1.71 goals per game on offense and giving up 1.76 goals per game. Lauren Storey is the top scorer with seven goals and 17 points. Faye Janse has six goals while Ellie Todd anchors the defensive effort with 3.88 saves per game. She faces 10.4 shots per game.

By the Numbers
61- Career points for junior Alaina McVeigh, becoming the 30th Blue Devils to reach 60 career goals. The 61 points are tied for 29th in Duke history.
28 - Career goals by McVeigh, 21st in Duke history
0.53- Goals against average for Duke goalie Frederique Wollaert, still the lowest in Duke single-season history and tied for 22nd in NCAA history
0.70 - Duke's single-season record for goals against average set by Lori Stark in 1986
11 - Shutouts for the Blue Devils this season, tied for the most in the nation with Northwestern
1 - More shutout needed to break the Duke single-season history
15-6 - Goals scored versus goals allowed in ACC play this season
91.4 - Duke's success rate on defensive penalty corners, allowing just four goals on 55 opponent penalty corners
450:27 - Duke's shutout streak spanning from Sept. 29 until 44 seconds into the game Nov. 1 against UNC
58 - Penalty corners allowed by the Blue Devils in 16 games this season
2-6 - Duke 's ACC Championship record in Winston-Salem

A Glance at the Blue Devils

The Blue Devils are 11-5 overall with a 6-2 mark in ACC play. Duke sits at sixth in the national rankings and No. 5 in the RPI. All five setbacks are against top 20 foes and five versus top 10 teams. Duke has allowed just 10 goals in live action and has 11 shutouts. Alaina McVeigh is the top threat offensively with 11 markers this season. Ten different Blue Devils have scored a goal.
Defensively, Duke is allowing just 6.8 shots per game and 3.6 penalty corners per game. Duke is tied for the lead nationally with 11 shutouts this season. In goal, Frederique Wollaert leads the nation with 0.53 goals against average. The Blue Devils own a commanding 55-13 edge in shots, an 21-4 advantage in penalty corners and 8-0 lead in goals in the third quarter.

Series Histories

Duke and Wake Forest meet for the 86th time in the program's histories and for the 19th time in ACC Championship. The Blue Devils are 47-38 against the Demon Deacons and 11-7 in ACC postseason contests.
Duke has won three straight against Wake Forest, including last season's 2-0 victory in the ACC quarterfinal.

A Win Tuesday Would

Be Pam Bustin's 174th at Duke
Put Duke into the ACC Championship semifinals for the 26th time and second consecutive season
Be Duke's 23rd ACC Championship win
Give Duke 12 wins in a season for the 23rd time overall and 10th time under Bustin

Let's Go DPC

Duke's defensive penalty corner unit has been outstanding this season. Of the 58 penalty corners given up, the Blue Devils have given up just five goals - two of which came at Northwestern. The DPC has blocked 31 shots and allowed just 16 on goal with 12 being stopped by Frederique Wollaert. On eight penalty corners, Duke's opponent was unable to even get a shot off.

Mighty McVeigh

Junior Alaina McVeigh is back for her second full season on the turf for the Blue Devils. After missing her freshman season to injury, McVeigh had a breakout season in 2023 to earn the ACC Co-Offensive Player of the Year award and First Team All-America honors.
McVeigh hasn't missed a beat in season two on the turf with the Blue Devils. She has 11 goals this season and has at least a point in five of the past six games. McVeigh has three two-goal games this season and has scored in all but three games in which Duke has scored a goal. She has scored at least 20 points in both of her seasons and is one of 30 players in history to reach the 60-point marker.

Bravo Charlie

Graduate student Charlie van Oirschot is on a hot streak with at least one point in five of the past six games, including registering a goal in four of those. Each of her four tallies were game winners and two were unassisted scores.
van Oirschot has scored double-digit points in each of her three seasons as a Blue Devil and is two points away from tying her career high of 14 last season.

Next Game

The winner of Tuesday's game takes on the winner between Boston College and Stanford, Nov. 6 at 3:30 p.m. The title game is Nov. 8 at 12 p.m. 12 p.m.

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