Soccer is rare among college sports in that preseason games are often treated as seriously as regular-season or postseason games.
A crowd of 1,772 showed up at UNCG Soccer Stadium on Wednesday night to watch No. 15 Duke beat the No. 12 UNC Greensboro, 3-0.
Mike Grella, who spent the summer with the New York Red Bulls’ U-20 team, scored one goal and set up Vanderbilt transfer Joe Germanese and Zach Pope for the other goals. Both teams did substitute freely. They used 47 players.