Word: blockers
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Harvard struggled mightily early in the second frame, allowing Brown to open up a 21-16 lead. The Crimson staged a remarkable rally, capped off by freshman middle blocker Suzie Trimble’s kill that tied the game at 25. On the ensuing point, an apparent ace by Ogbechie was ruled a redo for interference, because the mishandled serve ricocheted backwards and struck the basketball backboard behind the court...
Ogbechie had a solid all-around effort, recording 11 kills and a team-high 15 digs. Freshman middle blocker Suzie Trimble led all hitters with 14 kills...
...began to chip away. The Big Green cut the Crimson lead to 25-20, forcing Harvard to call its only timeout of the match. The Crimson picked up three points directly out of the timeout on a Dartmouth attack error and a block and a kill by freshman middle blocker Suzie Trimble, en route to a 30-24 match-clinching...
Boosting IGF-1 levels is only half the story. Sweeney is also trying to tip the balance by shutting down myostatin, a compound that inhibits IGF-1 activity in the muscle. The pharmaceutical maker Wyeth Ayerst is testing a myostatin blocker in early trials of healthy humans, and hopes that it may become a new treatment option for those with muscular dystrophy or for the elderly who have become frail from the normal muscle wasting that occurs with aging...
Among other changes to the rules, defenders attempting to block extra points will no longer be allowed to run headlong towards the line of scrimmage before leaping and landing on an opposing blocker without first bumping into a member of their own team. Maconaghy equated the 15-yard penalty to roughing the passer, arguing that an unsuspecting and unprotected player should never be left exposed to such force and vulnerable to unnecessary injury...