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...crowd roared for the fighters to smash each other again: more kicks, punches, stomps, knees and elbows. They obliged. When they got too tired to fight, they would grab each other and crash to the mat of the octagonal ring, grappling, twisting like strange action figures, pressing against the cage's netting. Then they would be back on their feet, catching a breath, calculating advantage, their faces streaked with sweat and gore. Both were bleeders. Weeks before, in a qualifying bout, Forrest Griffin, 26, had suffered a gash above an eye that required so many stitches that few expected...
...cage surrounding the ring was intended to keep the audiences from jumping in as much as to keep the fighters from falling out. "Violence for the sake of violence," says Phil Mushnick, a sports columnist for the New York Post. "I understand that not everything necessarily has to have a redeeming social value. It can have no value. But this kind of stuff has negative value...
...lone score of the game came from Maryland forward Jackie Ciconte at 10:50, when she commandeered a shot attempt from teammate Sarah Scholl and dove to beat Knoche to the back of the cage...
Senior midfielder Jane Sackovich scored what would end up being the winning goal with only 31 seconds left in the first half. She ripped the ball through a crowd in front of the cage and past Crusaders netminder Sony Kuhn, notching her first score of the season unassisted...
McDavitt gave the Crimson some insurance with her second goal of the season, an unassisted shot in front of the cage with 6:29 remaining in the game...