Word: basket
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...powerful athlete while throwing, his basketball playing ability betrayed this impression. He cavorted up and down the court trying to follow the plays, dribbling (he was all right, no left) and shooting. Throughout the game, he was a study in motion, his bulky frame constantly cutting under the basket, twisting and turning as he does on the pitcher's mound, where his job is to confuse enemy batsmen...
Mitchell's two buckets started a 17-6 spree which he finished off with a basket with three seconds remaining in the half, giving UMass a 35-25 lead...
Todd Hooks then stole the ball from Mitchell and fed Kallaugher on the fly who passed it to Healey underneath for the basket. Kallaugher followed this up by stealing the ensuing inbound pass and laying it in to cut the UMass lead to four...
Then, as Dartmouth struggled to get the ball inbounds, he dashed to the baseline to pick off the pass, and fed Jeff Hill underneath for the tying basket...
After the two squads traded the ball back and forth through a minute of sloppy play, a beautiful pass from Joe Leondis to Bill Carey gave Harvard another easy basket and a tied ball game...