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...moment, though, that Harvard would break through in the match itself. Down 1-3 overall, three Crimson players—co-captain Dan Nguyen at No. 4, freshman Aba Omodele-Lucien at No. 5, and senior Ashwin Kumar at No.1—appeared to have the momentum they would need to earn match-winning singles victories.But when co-captain Dan Nguyen, playing at No. 4, got broken in the third set, Harvard abruptly found its back against the wall. Though Nguyen managed to save the first match point at 3-5 with a down-the line laser followed...
...moment.”In the remaining few seconds, Harvard missed on another jumper and failed to sink two free throws. In the meantime, Yale made three free throws after a pair of Crimson fouls, bringing the final score to 64-58. Game over.“They got momentum in the second half and they got it at the right time,” Hallion said. “We didn’t get it back. We made some tough fouls and we didn’t connect well. We had everything we wanted for the whole season...
...Ambrose a solid lead. Harvard was unable to bounce back and gave up the first frame, 30-24.With junior captain Brady Weissbourd serving, the Crimson opened up the second game on a much better note. Harvard captured the first five points of the frame and seemed to have recovered its momentum. But the Fighting Bees fought back and quickly overtook the Crimson’s lead. St. Ambrose limited Harvard to a .061 hitting percentage, and though the Fighting Bees only posted an attacking percentage of .176 themselves, the difference was enough to overpower the Crimson. Harvard played from behind...
...community over personal gain. Unsurprisingly, the film is at its best when it focuses on the specific. In the last thirty minutes Dunn abandons her focus on the battle over Barton Springs to examine the issue of urban sprawl more generally. The end of the film loses its momentum as Dunn neglects her human subjects in favor of familiar generalizations about environmental conservation. The soundtrack switches from the bluesy sounds of Patty Griffin and Jeff Beck to generically-epic instrumentals.A more serious flaw is Dunn’s failure to fully explore the larger implications of Barton Springs?...
That sort of gets to my next point. You said it's the natural cycle of these things, do you think you've lost the momentum at this point? Are you still the frontrunner? I never thought I was the frontrunner. We're running against the most dominant and entrenched, Democratic, established candidate in recent history. It's hard to beat...