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...racetrack used to be Carlyon's beat, but a visit to Gallipoli in 1998 left him "completely besotted with the place. I wanted to know more and more." For a writer, war offers an incomparable canvas, he says: "It's life and death. Everything's there." The titanic scale of the First World War and its domination by machines?artillery, bombs, tanks, planes, machine guns?only underscored the humanity of the combatants. For Carlyon the war was "the biggest tragedy in our history." But those who took part did "astonishing things," he writes?like the capture of the heavily defended...
...spunk,” he added. Indeed, in her first collegiate tournament, Pensler had the chance to encounter All-American competition and avenge a searing loss to that competition in quick succession. Pensler lost her round-robin bout against second-team All-American Samantha Nemecek of Northwestern, but beat her soundly by a score of 15-6 in the second round of direct-elimination. “I was nervous before,” said Pensler, one of three freshman foilists on a very young foil squad, “but our team was very good about cheering everyone...
...level. They bring a lot of intensity and hard work and things like that to the team and are really good examples to the underclassmen.”Without the three Olympic players, the Crimson still managed to snag an ECAC title, coming back from an underdog position to beat Brown in the finals. Sifers played a key role in this success story as she scored the game- and series-winning goal in double overtime against Clarkson in the quarterfinals of the ECAC tournament. She sank the puck in the back of the net with a pinpoint slap shot that...
...learn how to win, you’ve got to learn how to come back from that.” St. Lawrence added one more tally just before the period ended, when Drew Bagnall scooped up a puck sent precariously into the Crimson zone by a powerful check and beat Tobe for the 5-2 lead. “In my mind, the fourth and fifth goals were very much avoidable,” Donato said. “Goals are too hard to come by to be able to give them up in bunches in that short a period...
...just great to win with all these guys, guys that I care about.” After seizing an early 1-0 lead, Harvard had trouble putting the Lions away for good. That all changed when, with 15 minutes remaining in the second half, sophomore forward Mike Fucito beat his man down the wing and crossed a ball that found Altchek unguarded directly in front of the net. “Fucito just did his thing,” Altchek said. “If I had missed that, I would have never been able to forgive myself...