Word: aceing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...second straight outstanding performance on the mound from its ace wasn’t enough to prolong the Harvard softball team’s season.Albany (34-16, 14-9 America East) topped the Crimson, 1-0, in an elimination game in the NCAA Championships at the Hempstead Regional, sending Harvard (31-15, 16-6 Ivy) home despite a second complete game in as many days from junior hurler Shelly Madick.Madick, the Ivy League Pitcher of the Year, threw six innings and allowed just one run, a day after she had gone the distance in a tough nine-inning...
...game—it was exciting for fans.”Two innings earlier, Harvard seemed poised to grab the upset win after seizing the lead in dramatic fashion in the top half of the seventh. But Melissa Hodge blasted a two-out, full-count home run off junior ace Shelly Madick to send the contest into extra innings and reawaken the soggy crowd of 209 at the Hofstra Softball Stadium on Long Island. “Hodge’s home run was probably one of the clutchest home runs I have ever seen...
Then, with the Pride down to its own last strike in the bottom half of the inning, Melissa Hodge took Crimson ace Shelly Madick deep to force extra frames...
...trio of wind-aided longballs out of the Hofstra Softball Stadium in Hempstead, N.Y., ultimately resolved a classic pitcher's duel between Madick and Pride ace Kayleigh Lotti in the home team's favor...
...address 95% of the need with 10% of the effort that would be required to cover everything. For example, when designing Writeboard, for collaborative writing, the team wanted to let people track how much a document had changed over time. They pored over Ph.D. theses and complex algorithms. Instead, ace programmer David Hansson worked out a "cheat": software to track the number of characters in each document. The evolving total could be conveyed visually using dots of different sizes. With that clever solution, 37signals reduced what could have been a months-long programming project to a day's work...