Duke cruises in the regular season finale, 17-5, over Marquette.
I was really happy with Danny's performance in cage. With his mother having flown in earlier in the day from New York, he stopped 10 of the 14 shots he faced...As he approaches the finish line of his collegiate career, this is precisely how zoned in I want to see him be in the ACC and NCAA Tournaments.
Guterding raises his season total to 85 points behind a six goal, two assist effort. He needs just one more goal to reach the 50 plateau for the third time in his career....His 323 career points puts him just 30 behind Duke Legend/current staff member, Matt Danowski.....Should his 6+ ppg hold up, with a deep run in the postseason, the Garden City native should pass his mentor for the all-time school record....In addition, per Duke's game summary, Guterding sits at 195 career goals and should easily become just the second person in NCAA DI history (former Dukie/Bryant student-athlete, Zack Greer, being the first) to reach 200 career tallies...With Greer owning the record at 206, it remains feasible that good old #14 could put himself atop that mountain as well before the end of May.
Brad Smith (2 goals, 3 assists) and fab frosh, Joe Robertson (4 +1) both had five point games to conclude the regular season with 46 (23/23) and 41 (32/8) points respectively.
Leading just 5-3 at the break, Duke completely dominated the final 30 minutes of play, our-scoring the Golden Eagles, 12-2....Shining a lot on some guys who do not get a lot of press, the 17th and final strike of the game came courtesy of sophomore Ryan Hastings on a feed from senior David Gill....The goal was the first of the season for Hastings and just his third overall during his two years in Durham....Gill's assist was his second point of the season and his fourth career point.
Now the real season begins!!!!