Word: backcourts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Second seed Maria Pe used a consistent backcourt game to easily dispose of Joanna Sleeper, 6-2, 6-1. She and Kaufman took it to Bridget Hiller and Tara Dunne, 6-3, 6-1, at the number-two doubles position...
...surely stronger. It may be massive or petite, but it is always graceful. The face, stripped of its old layers of makeup, looks more natural. The frame, deprived of some adipose tissue, looks more sinuous. It is a body made for motion: for long, purposeful strides across the backcourt, through the mall, into the boardroom. It is a body that speaks assurance, in itself and in the woman who, through will power and muscle power, has created it. It is not yet, and may never be, for everybody, but for many men this feminine physical assurance can be galvanizing; there...
...Crimson continued its second-half barrage supported by offensive penetration from Hall and Martin, rebounding by Scannell and Lins Leithauser, and continued backcourt pressure. But the Big Red refused to play dead, matching the inhospitable hosts point for point. Two Cornell foul shots broke a 64-64 tie, but Leithauser--who led the scoring with 17 points--then sunk one of two free throws to cut the lead to one at 66-65 with 50 seconds to play...
After a Cornell traveling violation. Hall missed jump shot, giving Cornell the ball with 18 seconds left and the visitors still hanging on to their precarious one-point lead. After a Cornell time-out. Martin fouled Cornell's center in the backcourt, but luckily for the Crimson, she missed the crucial free throw, and Hall came down with the rebound...
...overtime period, Carrabino stepped to the line after a backcourt foul, and with 4:18 remaining he calmly sand both shots to give Harvard a lead they would never relinquish...