Word: benching
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...Crimson players, heads down and drenched in sweat and water, retreat to the bench. The sun glares down at them. It has been a long, hot day here at Byrd Stadium. Sixty-six minutes of grinding nails, teeth and sticks with not a cloud in the sky to protect the players from the tiring rays...
Junior defender Kelly Morrison wipes away the tears that have welled up in her eyes as they slide down her sunburnt skin. Junior Sarah Downing drags her stick along the grass. And there at the end of the bench, alone, eyes closed, in a crouch, is Co-Captain Liz Berkery...
...thrown her Gatorade bottle down. She has tossed her stick indignantly under the bench. And she sits alone, trying to come to grips with the fact that she has played in her last game ever for the Crimson...
When we sit on this park bench talking to each other," he says, "we don't put in little commas and colons and exclamation points. We don't need them, because we hear it." Merwin folds his sunglasses on his lap. "The closer words get to poetry, the more the spoken language is there. And that's not punctuated...
...bench was cleared with a whopping five minutes to play...