A diving save in the first minute and a goal before halftime gave Dixon some momentum Monday against Oregon .

But at the break, the Dukes weren’t content.

“Let’s break the 1-0 curse!” one of the players said as the team huddled up.

Dixon did just that, adding three more goals in the final 13 minutes to make sure the lead never slipped away in a 4-1 victory over the Hawks at A.C. Bowers Field in their Big Northern Conference finale.

“It was really nice to finish this one,” said senior Jack Redell, who recorded a hat trick. “We’ve come out in first halves and played good soccer, then we’ll come out in the second and it’s like we just die out there. We’ll be up and then we’ll lose all our intensity. It was better today; we came out in the second half, we kept the same intensity and we

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