Word: upwind
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...smackdown took place at an ordinary watering hole where a small herd of cape buffalo were drinking and idling, wandering dangerously close to a pack of concealed lions that either did not smell very lion-like or, more probably, were crouching deliberately upwind. On the other side of the hole, six tourists and a guide watched in a parked range vehicle. The lions waited until the buffalo got close enough and then pounced, seizing the baby and scattering the adults. That's usually a game-ender for a baby buffalo, but things got even worse for this...
...really well, but also some things not so well.” Baker and freshman crew Lauren Brants earned the B division a sixth-place finish, and freshman crew Megan Watson and senior skipper Mallory Greimann took seventh for the Crimson’s A division. Harvard excelled sailing upwind, and most of the team’s starts were relatively clean. Still, with the other women elsewhere, even a strong performance wasn’t good enough to get into the top five. “There were a lot of really good teams there...
...field and really the whole field in general was just in terrible condition,” captain Will Craig said. “It was a difficult day to try to play on the ground and play pretty soccer.”Brown also struggled making its offense click upwind as most of its balls were blown array by the wind. In fact, a couple of goal kicks and punts from freshman goalie Jarret Leech simply were blown out of bounds before they even reached the midline. Despite the Crimson’s obvious advantage that helped...
...good boatspeed, some good starts, and we were able to get our heads out of the boat enough to look upwind for puffs and shifts so that we were able to put together some solid races,” Everett said...
...concentrated on our starts and really watching the wind on the upwind legs,” Rodin said...