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...Clutch hitting, superb defense, sharp pitching, a buccaneering spirit and more luck than any team deserves have lifted the Rockies from obscure awfulness to America's best-kept baseball secret. "It's a dream come true," first baseman Todd Helton wrote on his blog. "It's tough to put into words...
...planning their families. Like most other birds, egrets lay multiple eggs, but rather than brooding them all the same way so that the chicks emerge on more or less the same day, the mother begins incubating her first and second eggs before laying the remaining ones in her clutch. That causes the babies to appear on successive days, which gives the first-arriving chick the earliest crack at the food and a 24-hour head start on growth. The second-hatched may not have too difficult a time catching up, but the third may struggle. The fourth and beyond will...
...captain Chris Ludwick said. Riding high off of sophomore Egen Atkinson’s two penalty conversions and the team’s physical play, Harvard found itself up 8-4 at the half. The Crimson let up a bit after the break but maintained the lead with clutch goals at the end of the game. Stellar play on the defensive front, especially in goal, helped seal the victory. After recording 15 saves in the first game, Connolly remained on top of his game, blocking 14 shots in game two. “[The game] was good in the beginning...
...awarded a penalty kick, but co-captain and forward Matt Hoff missed, swinging it left past the far post. The penalty miss, however, rejuvenated the Crimson attack, as Harvard peppered the Brown goal mouth, causing Bears goalkeeper Paul Grandstand to live up to his last name by making several clutch saves.The score remained at 1-0 well into the second half until sophomore forward Andre’ Akpan skillfully redirected a cross by junior defender Marcel Perl into the upper 90 to tie the game at 1. The goal, which extended Akpan’s scoring streak to eight consecutive...
...lead early in the second quarter, only to have the Lancers tie the game by halftime. Ludwick and Livingston both recorded hat tricks and goalkeeper Connolly made 10 saves on Cal Baptist. Livingston, Harvard’s leading goal scorer on the season, stepped up with a clutch goal to tie the game at 11.“We played strong the entire game and were close the entire game,” Ludwick said. “It was definitely the big positive of the weekend—everyone played with more energy, we were sticking our shots...