BREAKING NEWS!!! Terrapin lacrosse teams lost the same number of games at Duke today as our waitress at the Durham Waffle House had teeth: 2.
No, it was not a very good day to be a Terp lacrosse player or a Diamondback staffer in Durham.
The first bad thing that happened affected photographer Yuchen Nie. He slipped down the muddy hill outside our hotel room leaving his rear end wet and mud-streaked.
Then the women’s team felt Yuchen’s pain. They lost a back-and-forth contest to the Blue Devils this afternoon, surrenduring the game-winning goal with three seconds left.
Next came the Waffle House incident. The All-American Breakfasts were good enough, but the meal got low ratings for presentation. Add in the trip to a strip mall to search for a jacket for me since my own mysteriously disappeared somewhere between my room in Elkton Hall and Yuchen’s car, and we jumped back into the lead for worst day.
However, this evening the men may have evened the score by getting dominated by the Blue Devils from the start in a 15-7 loss. Junior Dan Groot said he was “shell-shocked” by the outcome.
As I walked to the locker rooms after the game to do interviews, a small boy wearing a Duke jersey looked up at his dad and said, “Dad, I knew they were going to win, but I didn’t know they would manhandle them like that.”
Similarly, I knew this trip might not be great, but I had no idea what I was really in for.
Tags: Dan Groot, Duke lacrosse, Waffle House, Yuchen Nie