Word: clutching
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After two halves and an overtime of scoreless soccer filled with physical defense, clutch goalkeeping and near-misses, Sedgwick made the perfect header off a corner kick to ruin the record of the last remaining perfect team in Division I women’s soccer...
...Ripken too had been a star, a clutch player, as asset at shortstop. Then the years turned his hair and his skills gray. His batting average drooped, his power numbers were anemic, he was no longer a shining asset to his team. And still the Orioles managers (one of them was his father) were afraid to sit him for a day or two, if only to give a chance to a younger, hungrier, maybe better player. They let Ripken stay out there for the same reason he insisted on staying out there: because of the streak. That's not teamwork...
...hovering presence. Last year, police found in Burrell's house in Cheshire a trove of Dianiana - more than 300 items in all - stuffed into the attic and wardrobe and a bench and arrayed on the stairs: framed photos of her and Prince Charles and their boys, a clutch of CDs and old LPs with her signature, handbags from Versace and Chanel and Prada, her monogrammed pajamas (these were in Burrell's bedroom), crockery bearing Charles' crest, more than 3,000 photo negatives stored in a carrier bag, including some of the young princes William and Harry in the bath...
With my beloved Yankees shown an early exit from the playoffs by the clutch play of the upstart Angels, I sat down to write a eulogy...
While Harvard has given up its share of yards this season, the defense has usually come through in the clutch. The Crimson is a perfect five-for-five in defending two-point conversions. And up only two in the fourth quarter against Brown, Harvard made the necessary plays to shut down the Bears’ potent attack...