The University of North Carolina earned four points last weekend from women's lacrosse, men's and women's track and field and women's golf to clinch the 2008-09 Carlyle Cup competition against Duke.
The women's golf team edged Duke by a single stroke at the ACC Championships to finish in second place behind the team champion, Wake Forest. This marked the first time in the nine-year history of the Carlyle Cup the Tar Heels claimed the point in women's golf.
The Blue Devils added a point on Sunday in men's golf and a point on Monday in rowing, then won back a half point in the ACC women’s Lacrosse tournament by defeating the Tar Heels after losing to them during the regular season, and finish with 11 total points in the 2008-09 competition.
Carolina finished with 15.0 total points, two more than it needed to retain the Carlyle Cup, an annual event in which the two rivals compete in 23 sports for a total of 26 points. The winning team needs at least 13.5 points to win the Cup. If the schools wind up in a 13-13 tie, the Cup is retained by the last year’s winner.
This year marks UNC's second straight win in the Carlyle Cup and fourth in the past five years. The schools were tied in 2006-07. This is the ninth year of the competition - Carolina has won five times, Duke three with the one tie.
This year, the Tar Heels accumulated two points in both men's basketball and football, one point in women's basketball, field hockey, women's golf, men's soccer, women's soccer, men's swimming and diving, women's swimming and diving, men's track and field, women's track and field and wrestling, and a half-point in volleyball and women’s lacrosse.
Duke's 11 points this year were scored one point apiece by baseball, women's basketball, men's cross country, women's cross country, fencing, men's golf, men's lacrosse, men's tennis and women's tennis, rowing and a half point from volleyball and women’s lacrosse.
Several half-points could still be “won back” by either Duke or Carolina if their teams met in various NCAA Tournament championships. But that would not change the outcome of the overall Carlyle Cup competition.
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