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...Striker Kelly Landry stole the ball from Springfield fullback Wendy Marble and she broke down the soggy field. She faked a pass to her left and chipped the ball to striker Alicia Carillo, who alertly sent it to Laura Mayer who knocked it in from in front of the goal...
Neither team looked particularly impressive in the first half, as both squads seemed to have difficulty settling down, but Harvard started the second stanza by applying all sorts of pressure on the Polar Bear net. About 15 minutes into the period, Crimson striker Kelly Landry, open in front of the goal slammed a bullet over Leitch's head. The Bowdoin netminder jumped up, fumbled with the ball and just as it seemed that the Crimson had scored, she recovered the rebound...
...troubling scoring against MIT, and the Crimson attack was not slow to untrack yesterday. Lets than three minutes into the match, Junior Jay Hooper caught his Engineer marker with his slide rule out and used some very fancy footwork to free himself on the left wing. His cross found striker Richard Berkman streaking into the penalty box, and the Long Island native cracked a left-footed half volley into the MIT twines...
Italy 3, West Germany 1. It was the single most significant soccer score in 44 years for the Italians, whose team had just won its first World Cup since 1938. But the victory was surely sweetest of all for the club's champion striker, Paolo Rossi, 25. He had returned to the sport just two months earlier, after a two-year suspension when he was implicated in a betting scandal. Scoring six goals, Rossi displayed an almost mystical artistry with foot and ball that belied earlier fears. "I'd been morally depressed for so long," he said...
...Maris is in an unusual position because it is a Roman Catholic school located in a Protestant area, and it holds a special place in modern Belfast history because Bobby Sands is an alumnus. Yet the Stella Maris students make no big thing of their connection to the hunger striker. A couple of boys were once caught playing a game called Bobby Sands, but that's about the extent of it. Ask Stephen and Malachy, both 15, what they think of Sands' decision, and they answer simultaneously, "Brave." "Foolish...