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Several balls flew around at waist level. More than one body fell to the turf. Two players received green cards for "unecessary roughness," specifically a slash and a cleat in the stomach. Loren Ambinder broke her nose in a head-on collision...
Harvard added another run on Marcel Durand's double in the second. But Del Vecchio, trying to score from second on a single, caught his cleat rounding third, fell and was thrown out trying to return to base...
Shoe designers finely tune each category of shoe to its particular activity by studying human motion and physiology. Reebok's baseball shoes, for example, have a specially designed cleat pattern called SpeedSlot for fast starts and stops. Crafty Nike marketeers have also invented in-between products, most notably the cross-trainer shoe, designed for an all-around athlete. Cross- trainers offer enough lateral support for the sideways motions of aerobics and basketball but are light and flexible enough for jogging...
Whitley (with eight saves on the afternoon) and Panther netminder Liz Sobczak (with 12) saw their share of flashing spikes. In fact, the game was halted late in the second half when Sobczak received a cleat in the face...
...Crimson made that fact very cleat Saturday, toppling a University of Pennsylvania team that, on paper, was supposed to be much better...