Word: deke
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...space program after his return to Earth, helping to design its later fleet of ships, including the elegant Mir space station. Like only a handful of other cosmonauts and astronauts, he lived to see a crater on the moon bear his name. And like too many of them--the Deke Slaytons and Gus Grissoms and Wally Schirras and others--he now passes into celestial memory...
Vaillancourt tracked down the puck in her own zone and sprinted down the length of the ice, carving through the Colgate defense before positioning herself in front of the net. After executing a knee-buckling deke on Raiders goalie Lisa Plenderleith, Vaillancourt slipped the puck in the net and gave Harvard the victory...
...were logged against Harvard. For a moment, it looked like Colgate might derail the Crimson’s unblemished conference campaign.Then Sarah Vaillancourt took the puck.The junior forward tracked down a clear from the Harvard zone at center ice and advanced into Colgate territory on a breakaway. After a deke to the right, she netted the game-winning shorthanded goal past Raiders netminder Lisa Plenderleith with 2:28 remaining to make it 3-2.That was close.“It was awesome, it was a great effort,” Crimson coach Katey Stone said. “Our backs were...
...first two periods, the Harvard offense proved to be too much for Labonte. After a goal off of a deflection by Ryabkina in the first period, Vaillancourt struck twice in the second.She displayed some flair on her final goal, sending a McGill defender to the ice with a deke and then slipping the puck past Labonte.—Staff writer Loren Amor can be reached at lamor@fas.harvard.edu...
...first-year. This time it was forward Pier-Olivier Michaud who showed off his moves, getting Davis to bite at a nifty fake at the left post before finding a wide-open right corner. “Michaud showed a lot of poise with the puck there on his deke,” Donato said. It was not, however, good news across the board for the Crimson freshmen. First-year defender Chris Huxley had a pass intercepted at his own blue line at the end of the second period. The errant pass led to a breakaway and shorthanded score...