Word: marathoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...game at Yale when Harvard scored three times in the last five minutes for a 4-2 win. There was the overtime with Dartmouth at Bright, when, on a textbook play, Firkins Reed screened the goalie and Sue Newell scored on a soft backhander. There was the marathon five-overtime struggle with heavily-favored Northeastern in the first round of the Beanpot, ended after four hours and 15 minutes by Sue Yunick's breakaway goal. And there was the scoreless overtime, followed by a game-deciding shootout, in Harvard's 4-3 win over Cornell in the League tourney semis...
Before graduating from Horace Mann in 1976. Shelton founded an annual softball marathon that still raises several thousand dollars a year for cancer research. He also did volunteer work for the World Hunger Organization...
...Crimson ace saved face by coming right back to topple McConnell's teammate Karen Kelso, in the consolation final for third place. Kelso came within a point of making it an all-UPenn final, but lost to a hard-charging Porter in the other semi-final match, a a marathon five-game classic...
...exercise ethic. But as a true-blue '60s radical and one of those impassioned individualists who refuses to comply with the limits society sets on its fads and trends, Shapiro didn't restrict his jaunts to the conventional distances of ten or fifteen miles or even the marathon. Rather, Shapiro joined up with that elite--some say insane--class that has aptly labeled itself "ultrarunners...
...serve regiments of "skinny-ski" addicts. Yellowstone, Crater Lake, Sequoia and other national parks are offering winter ski touring. In 1973 the 34-mile Birkebeiner race and an accompanying 17-mile contest drew only 75 contestants. This year's outing will be the sport's Boston Marathon, attracting more than 7,000 participants...