Word: back-and-forth
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After more back-and-forth play, the Hawks took three straight points of their own to draw within one at 12-11, but Harvard exactly matched the Roger Williams run, forcing the Hawks to take a timeout...
...back-and-forth from there, as Harvard crawled back to a 47-42 lead on a Peljto three-pointer from the top of the key with 10:33 to go. Cornell took a 51-49 lead with 7:44 left after Tubridy and Sarah Johnson committed fouls. Two-and-a-half minutes later, the game was tied for the fourth time...
...back-and-forth struggle finally ended when Prasse-Freeman missed a three-pointer from the left side of the court that would have won the game. Twenty seconds earlier, Yale forward Ime Archibong hit an uncontested lay-up that put the Bulldogs up for good...
...mortify the no-cameras-in-the-court purists; CNN's choice to show the courtroom "won-loss" record of lawyers, for instance, was the sort of knee-jerk ballgame mentality that confirms 24-hour news's worst tendencies. But the visuals were beside the point: The verbal back-and-forth itself was not only riveting but a salutary thing for the whole polarized country to hear, even if most of us could understand one out of every three terms...
...After a back-and-forth first half that left the men's basketball team up 37-36, the Crimson offense exploded for 51 points in the second frame and pulled away against the Northeastern Huskies (0-3, 0-0 America East), winning...