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HISTORY DENIED (9:50 p.m. EST) — Duke had to go low on the last day of the NCAA Championship to win. That’s exactly what the Blue Devils did, shooting a round-best 7-under, but it wasn’t enough to capture an unprecedented fourth consecutive title. Amanda Blumenherst finished 4-under, carding three birdies and an eagle in her [...]
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Interesting sidenote to today’s action: Though Duke seems like a longshot to become four-time defending national champions now, junior Amanda Blumenherst’s candidacy as National Player of the Year is still very much on the line.
Blumenherst’s main competition for the honor is Arkansas’ Stacy Lewis. Lewis has won six tournaments this year to [...]
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — On a day when bad weather caused numerous breaks in play, Duke couldn’t seem to catch any breaks of its own.
Trailing USC by 15 strokes after round two, the Blue Devils put together a round of 11-over before play was finally stopped for good late Thursday night. It is currently the fifth-best [...]
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Two days into the final leg of its quest for an unprecedented fourth national championship, top-seeded Duke finished Wednesday in 12th place, 15 strokes behind co-leaders USC and UCLA at the University of New Mexico Golf Course in Albuquerque, N.M. The Blue Devils were in 18th place after Tuesday, also 15 strokes off the pace.
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Before his team embarked on the final leg of its quest for a fourth-straight national championship, Dan Brooks and I spoke on the phone Friday about both Amanda Blumenherst and his entire team. The resulting story will appear in Thursday’s print version of The Chronicle as a pseudo-preview for the last two days of the [...]
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Chasing an unprecedented fourth straight national title, top-ranked Duke sits in 18th place, 15 strokes behind Southern California at the NCAA Championships in Albuquerque, N.M.
All five Blue Devils in competition put in lackluster rounds Tuesday, the first of four days to determine the national championship. Two-time defending National Player of the Year and top-seeded golfer [...]
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