{"id":7041,"date":"2014-04-22T19:18:51","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T23:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=7041"},"modified":"2014-04-22T20:24:15","modified_gmt":"2014-04-23T00:24:15","slug":"dukes-maurer-virden-earn-weekly-acc-lacrosse-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=7041","title":{"rendered":"Duke\u2019s Maurer, Virden earn weekly ACC lacrosse honors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_7042\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7042\" style=\"width: 259px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/maurervirden.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/maurervirden.jpg\" alt=\"Taylor Virden, Kerrin Maurer.\" width=\"259\" height=\"219\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7042\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7042\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taylor Virden, Kerrin Maurer.<\/figcaption><\/figure>Duke senior attacker Kerrin Maurer and senior defender Taylor Virden have been named the Atlantic Coast Conference Women\u2019s Lacrosse Offensive and Defensive Players of the Week, respectively, as announced Tuesday by the conference.<\/p>\n<p>Maurer netted the game-winning goal with 26 seconds remaining in overtime to send eighth-ranked Duke past No. 3 North Carolina in the first women\u2019s lacrosse game to be played at Kenan Stadium. Maurer tallied her eighth hat trick of the season, scoring the Blue Devils\u2019 first and last goals of the contest. In addition, her assist on a Sydney Peterson goal with 4:12 left in regulation helped knot the game at 6-6. Maurer continues to pace Duke in scoring on the season with a team-best 47 goals and 25 assists for 72 points.<\/p>\n<p>Virden helped the Duke defense hold the Tar Heels to their second-lowest scoring output of the season in Wednesday\u2019s upset victory. One of the team\u2019s key defensive personnel, Virden also helped the Blue Devils win the draw controls category by a 9-8 margin, contributing solid play from the wings.<\/p>\n<p>The ACC Women\u2019s Lacrosse Championship gets under way Thursday, April 24, with quarterfinal action beginning at 11 a.m.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Duke men&#8217;s senior attackman Jordan Wolf<\/strong> was name ACC Co-Offensive Player of the Week.<\/p>\n<p>Wolf matched a career high with six goals and eight points overall to lead Duke to a 17-8 win over Rutgers. Wolf extended his point streak to 55 games and his goal scoring streak to 16 as Duke finished the regular season with a perfect 9-0 record at home. Wolf has nine hat tricks this season and 29 in his career, while his six goals moved him to fifth on the ACC career goals chart with 166. This is Wolf\u2019s fourth Offensive Player of the Week honor of the season. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Duke senior attacker Kerrin Maurer and senior defender Taylor Virden have been named the Atlantic Coast Conference Women\u2019s Lacrosse Offensive and Defensive Players of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-duke-blue-devils","category-featured-stories","wpcat-82-id","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7041"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7045,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7041\/revisions\/7045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}