No. 9 Duke Blanks Old Dominion, 1-0

Sunday, September 17

Durham, N.C.

1 p.m.

Duke University

(6-1)

Old Dominion

(2-5)

Old Dominion

Duke University

Brynn Crouse and Mary Harkins celebrate a goal

Photo by: Duke Athletics

No. 9 Duke Blanks Old Dominion, 1-0

9/17/2023 3:55:00 PM | Field Hockey

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DURHAM – Duke senior goalkeeper Piper Hampsch made four saves and sophomore Brynn Crouse scored in the third quarter to lift the ninth-ranked Blue Devils to a 1-0 victory over Old Dominion in field hockey action Sunday afternoon on Williams Field at Jack Katz Stadium.

The Blue Devils extended their win streak to four games, improving to 6-1 overall on the year. Old Dominion falls to 2-5 overall with three of the five setbacks coming by one goal.

How it Happened

Old Dominion did well to stifle the Duke offense throughout much of the first half, holding the Blue Devils to only three shots with only one on goal.
The Monarchs fired three shots in the opening quarter with Hampsch coming away with two saves.
Scoreless at the break, the Blue Devils continued to stay patient as the Monarchs were able to keep them out of the circle.
Duke earned a penalty corner late in the third quarter with Hannah Miller pushing it directly into Macy Szukics. The sophomore midfielder fired a shot on cage as ODU keeper Suus Broers made the save. Crouse was there, framing the goal and knocked in the rebound for the game winner.
The Blue Devils stayed steady on defense in the final 15 minutes, holding the Monarchs to one shot and no penalty corners.
Broers finished with two saves for Old Dominion as Duke outshot the Monarchs, 7-5. Both teams had two penalty corners apiece.

Notes

Duke extends its shutout streak to 129:12 with back-to-back shutouts for the first time since the fall of 2020.
The Blue Devils' four-game win streak is the best since starting the 2019 season 7-0.
Hampsch recorded back-to-back shutouts for the second time in her career. This is her eighth career solo shutout. She now has 226 career saves. She is 12 away from tying for eighth in Duke history.
Head coach Pam Bustin recorded her 312th career win and 150th at Duke. She is 13 victories away from becoming Duke's winningest coach in program history.

Up Next

Duke travels to Boston next weekend for games against ACC foe Boston College and Ivy League opponent Harvard. The Blue Devils face the Eagles, Sept. 22 at 5 p.m., and Harvard Sept. 24 at 12 p.m.

Quotes

Piper Hampsch on the game
"I think Friday we were really hyped up obviously. An ACC opponent and we wanted to come out strong and we've kind of been blanked by Syracuse in the past so going into that game we really wanted to be on our A game and from there we just tried to ride that high. We didn't come out as fiery or with as much energy as we should have today so we were all a bit disappointed in that, but it's good to know that even on a type of day like this we can still grind out a win. It was much more finesse on Friday when we were trying to slice and dice around that team and today was a bit more of a grunt game and trying to rely on our basics, rely on the strength and conditioning that we've done to get us through 60 minutes."

Hampsch on the defensive effort
"I was really happy with our individual defensive effort, especially inside the circle – marking up on our girls, being able to step in front of some passes across the cage. Obviously, I had a couple of touches on the ball, which is never the goal, but it means the defense around you is doing their job to give you shots that you can see so I was happy with that. I think if we would have expanded that out to outside of our circle and stepped up our individual defense – it wasn't for lack of effort, but again I think just sharpening up those basics. Everyone's effort was there. We just need to fine tune the last bit to win the balls."

Hampsch on looking ahead to Boston College and Harvard
"We're all excited to go to Boston. Obviously, we love playing at home these past two weekends and getting four wins out of it, but I think we're excited to take it on the road and again grind out a couple more wins. We're playing a tough Boston College team who is also coming off a lot of great wins and a great Harvard team as well. We're looking forward to refining our own game. I think we've done a lot to match our opponents, but at the end of the day we want to be Duke and we want to play Duke field hockey and I think we have two great matches to be able to do that."

Pam Bustin on the pace of the game compared to the Syracuse game
"It was a different opponent for sure and I think coming out on Sunday's sometimes you expect a level that you competed at on Friday would automatically be there. I'm not saying that's the case, but you forget what you had to do to bring that, and I think it took a half to get into it, to realize we had to pick up our pace. But I have to give tons of credit to Old Dominion. I thought defensively they played a very tough annoying game for our attack. I'm really proud of our team for sticking with it, executing the moments that we had. It gives us something to look at and get better from."

Bustin on creating shots against Old Dominion
"It's hard when they defended with their entire team so getting shots off is quite difficult. So, it was more [about being] in a position to get a rebound and try to earn some corners because numbers in our favor attack wise. So that was kind of our goal there. I thought Brynn on the corner did a great job preparing for that rebound and putting it back in the goal cage.

Bustin on the win streak
"Every game we come out we're playing to win and it's nothing guaranteed so we really appreciate when we can earn the win the way we did today, the way we did Friday. Tuesday is a new day. It's a new week so now it's on to preparing for Boston College."

Bustin on preparing for the next game
"I think it's more finding out what there is in our game that we want to accentuate to take advantage of maybe situations in Boston College's style of play, but you just never know because they're probably making changes too. We'll just focus on what we need to do and get better at it."

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