Duke Softball 2025

[loran16]

This umpire has a ginormous strike zone, as Brooklinn Thomas takes two pitches low, one inside one outside and both are somehow strikes

Thomas then flies out on another low pitch that I guess she had to swing at

 

[loran16]

Jennings probably should’ve beaten out an infield hit but was slow getting out of the box and the FSU 2B made a great play.

 

[loran16]

Two out infield single by Malau’ulu comes to naught. Duke down 2-1 mid 5, 6 outs left to play with

 

[loran16]

Dani contains the top of the FSU order. 2-1 FSU after 5. The sixth inning was when Duke made its memorable moment last year, let’s see if they can do it again

 

[loran16]

Nothing doing. Duke with 3 outs left, and bottom of the lineup (Burgess, Baker, Thomas) to come up next inning

 

[loran16]

edenfield home run makes it 3-1

 

[loran16]

No more damage from FSU. Top 7 coming Duke needs two runs

 

[loran16]

Shuler pinch hitting for Burgess and almost hits a home run. Fascinating decision to use Shuler who has barely played there. Alas the wind blew the ball in

 

[loran16]

Baker strikes out on yet another hilariously bad call (way outside and low). Duke down to our final out

 

[loran16]

Omg. 3-2 now and here comes Vega with runners on second and third and two outs

 

[loran16]

Vega pops out and duke loses 3-2

 

[King of Defense]

Dang. That was exciting to follow here.

I know this isn't a program that accepts moral victories, but at the very least, if you're going to lose in the conference tournament, a narrow defeat to a team of that quality isn't bad.

 

[loran16]

Dang. That was exciting to follow here.

I know this isn't a program that accepts moral victories, but at the very least, if you're going to lose in the conference tournament, a narrow defeat to a team of that quality isn't bad.

All of the last five duke FSU acc tournament games have been close ones so I doubt they’ll take a moral victory but yeah it’s hopefully a sign for the ncaa tourney.

Selection show is at 7 on Sunday. Duke probably gets a hosting spot, and is likely to see Georgia and Liberty in our regional if we do. If we don’t get a hosting spot, I guess we’d wind up at South Carolina or Bama

 

[loran16]

Clemson came back from 9-2 down to beat VT 10-9 wow in the other semifinal. So once again we wind up with the acc being really a three team power struggle, Duke Clemson and FSU- no one else has made the acc final since COVID.

 

[loran16]

Wow, Cardiac Tigers do it again. Clemson was down 1-0 going into the 7th, hits a two run homer and beats FSU in the tourney for their first ever ACC Tourney Championship. Kelly Torres winning her second straight over FSU lol.

 

[Dopeshop]

what’s the latest on Curd ?

 

[loran16]

UNC makes the tournament as a 3 seed in number 7 Tennessee’s regional

 

[DukieInKansas]

We are the 14 seed - hosting.

 

[loran16]

Howard round 1, which is great as we’ve already destroyed them once.

Georgia 2, Coastal 3.

Georgia might be tough but that’s very winnable

 

[loran16]

Duke opens its NCAA Tournament at Noon on Friday. I'll have previews of all 3 opponents the next few days, but my first look make this look even more favorable than I thought and an even easier regional than last year's (when we had a higher seed and a better team). Geographical team placement really helped us I think.