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...overpowered and outmaneuvered their opponents to an easy 8-3 victory, keeping the Jaspers on their heels with sizzling serves and a well-executed two-man net game. In the final game, Denenberg showed the extent of his comfort by redirecting an attempted passing shot into a feeble drop-volley and crushing an overhead on match-point straight to the back wall of his opponents...
...motivation he could end up as the greatest player of all time . . . he hasn't got a weakness." With only two majors, Pat Rafter doesn't qualify as a great, but Cooper marvels at how, as a pint-sized 13-year-old, the Queenslander tried to play a serve-volley style that was beyond him. "But all that lunging he did as a little bloke set him up," Cooper says. "He grew into a great athlete who could reach everything...
...began committing penalties (four for eight minutes). Two penalties committed less than a minute apart by Harvard (at 13:01 and 13:53 into the third period) provided the Friars almost three minutes of uninterrupted powerplay, including almost a minute of two-man advantage, during with they unleashed a volley of shots that sophomore goalie Brittany Martin masterfully turned back. She blocked all 28 shots by Providence, including their 13 in the final period, atoning for the three goals she allowed in the loss at Connecticut last Tuesday.“Martin was playing great in front...
...fires fill a thin haze that floats through the neighborhood, where posters of Sadr hang on many buildings. When U.S. patrols rumble into the area in armored vehicles, pigeons soar as lookouts signal their comrades as to the Americans' whereabouts. Gunfire often follows. Typically militia fighters will fire a volley of shots at a checkpoint manned by Iraqi security forces near a U.S. patrol. They may linger to fire a few more shots at U.S. troops arriving in the big green Stryker vehicles, but then they usually vanish. Like the killers who brought down the U.S. informant, the gunmen...
...goals—one a game winner—and an assist, Hoff earned the Ivy League Player of the Week nod a week after sophomore Mike Fucito was given the same title. The biggest strike Hoff had was his goal against the Crusaders off a volley in the 53rd minute to make it 3-0 Harvard. That spread proved all that the Crimson would need in the 5-2 victory, making Hoff the eighth Harvard player to have a game-winning goal this season. Hoff’s other highlights last Tuesday include being inches away from another goal...