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...course the contest has only just begun - something the campaign was quick to emphasize. "It's been a hard-fought race here in Iowa for the last year and all eyes now turn to New Hampshire," campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle said in a statement issued shortly before Clinton took the stage. "This race begins tonight and ends when Democrats throughout America have their say. Our campaign was built for a marathon and we have the resources to run a national race in the weeks ahead...
...luck? If you can call it that, luck came into the picture in a hard-fought battle just two weekends ago. Facing off against a solid Penn State squad—a squad co-captain Samantha Parker said she can’t remember having defeated—the Nittany Lions’ coach made a questionable call...
...dominant post presence, a solid performance from the free-throw line, and tight defense gave the Harvard women’s basketball team (5-4) enough to edge New Hampshire (3-5), 59-53, Saturday in Durham, N.H. “I think it was a hard-fought game,” co-captain Lindsay Hallion said. “I think we did some things really well—for instance, when we weren’t shooting well, we stepped up our defense.” In the first start of her collegiate career, senior Adrian Budischak dominated...
...captain Mike Taylor slammed in a shorthanded goal late in a hard-fought game and delivered a physical Dartmouth team (4-4-1, 2-4-1 ECAC) a 1-0 loss at the Bright Hockey Center on Saturday night. Sophomore goalie Kyle Richter closed the door with his third shutout of the season to secure a win for the Harvard men’s hockey team (6-2-1, 5-2-1). “[Richter] has been our best player, I think, in all but one game,” said head coach Ted Donato...
...surges all night,” Hallion said. “It was a really hard-fought game—it was hard to feel like we were dominating any aspect...