Duke Completes Sweep Over No. 10 Notre Dame

Saturday, April 16

Durham, N.C.

12:00 P.M.

Duke University

16-20, 0

Notre Dame

21-8, 0

Notre Dame

Duke

Duke Completes Sweep Over No. 10 Notre Dame

4/16/2022 5:22:00 PM | Baseball

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DURHAM – Duke topped No. 10 Notre Dame, 6-2, on Saturday afternoon at Jack Coombs Field to complete the series sweep.

Duke improves to 16-20 on the season and 6-12 in ACC play while the 10th-ranked Fighting Irish fall to 21-8 (8-7 ACC). The Blue Devils recorded their first ACC sweep of the season.

"I'm really proud of our team," head coach Chris Pollard said. "We've had a tough stretch and tough two weeks of conference play, had our backs against the wall a little bit. We had a top-10 team coming into Coombs, and a team that is veteran and very good on the road the last two years. We played really good baseball. I'm proud of our team getting greedy today and want the sweep."

Senior RJ Schreck led the Blue Devils at the plate. Schreck finished 2-for-3 with a walk and a run scored.

Senior Aaron Beasley started the staff day for the Blue Devils, allowing just two hits in three scoreless innings of work. Beasley tallied three strikeouts in the outing.

The Blue Devils wasted no time to get on the board, scoring in the bottom of the first inning. Freshman Alex Mooney took the first pitch of the inning through the left side for a single, before advancing to third on a stolen base and an error. Pauley scored him on a groundout.

Notre Dame threatened to score in the top of the third, putting a runner in scoring position with one out. A heady defensive play by Beasley recorded an out at home before freshman Devin Obee made a spectacular catch while crashing into the wall in left center to end the inning.

Duke used four hits and an error to tack on three more in the bottom of the third inning and extend the lead, 4-0. Rookie Andrew Yu recorded an RBI single up the middle before senior Damon Lux connected for a two-run blast to center field. It was Lux's fifth home run of the season.

The Blue Devils scored lone runs in the bottom of the fifth and sixth innings to move to 6-0. Duke's run in the fifth scored on an error. In the sixth, sophomore Luke Storm hit a sacrifice fly to left field to plate Obee.

Notre Dame fought hard in the ninth, scoring two runs on two hits and a pair of fielding mistakes by the Blue Devils, but it wasn't enough.

Sophomore Luke Fox was strong as the second arm of a planned staff day, earning the win. Fox was tagged with two runs on three hits and a walk while striking out an impressive nine batters in 5.1 innings of work.

Duke returns to action on Tuesday, as it starts a four-game road stretch. The Blue Devils travel to Liberty before taking the trip to Atlanta, Ga., to face Georgia Tech for a three-game ACC series over the weekend.

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