Courtesy: Duke AthleticsDURHAM, N.C. – Kortney Dry blasted her first-career home run and Amelia Wiercioch struck out a career-high eight batters as the Duke Blue Devils (21-21) posted a 1-0 shutout against the Elon Phoenix (20-19) Wednesday afternoon at the Duke Softball Stadium.
Dry sent a 2-0 pitch packing over the wall in left center in the opening inning of play to give Duke all it needed on the scoreboard. With the 1-0 lead in hand, Wiercioch kept the Phoenix in check to secure her second complete game shutout of the year. The freshman righty set the tone early, recording seven of her eight strikeouts in the first three innings and held Elon to one hit over the first five frames, with…