Duke Softball Preview
b'#237:\\xa0Marissa Young, Head Coach\\xa0Duke Softball, visits The Coach\\xa0Roges\\xa0Show to\\xa0preview the upcoming inaugural season for Duke Softball.\\xa0 The Blue Devils will open the 2018 season on\\xa0Feb. 8th in Boca Raton, Florida.\\xa0 The team will face host Florida Atlantic twice as well as Ohio State, Michigan State and Boston University.\\xa0 They will then head home to host the Big Ten/ACC Challenge Feb. 16-18 playing both Penn\\xa0 State and Purdue twice.\\xa0 ACC play will open for the Blue Devils Mar. 9-11 in Chapel Hill.\\xa0 During ACC play, Duke will host Boston College, Louisville, Georgia Tech and Virginia and travel to Pitt, Notre Dame, and Virginia Tech.\\xa0 Prior to coming to Duke, Young spent two years as an assistant coach at the University of North Carolina.\\xa0 In the spring of 2015, Young helped the Tar Heels to a 37-16 overall record and a berth in the NCAA Tournament after the squad won 24 contests the prior season. Young\\u2019s pitchers posted a 3.30 earned run average with 234 strikeouts in 335.1 innings pitched.\\xa0\\xa0Blue Devils Facebook, Blue Devils Twitter,\\xa0Coach Young Twitter,\\xa0TCRS Twitter,\\xa0TCRS Facebook'