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...Trailing 2-1 at the first intermission, Harvard took control of the game in the middle frame.Rogers tied the game just 57 seconds into the period. Picking up the puck in the left corner of the Princeton zone, the pivot skated behind the goal and somehow slipped a shallow backhand shot past Tigers goaltender Zane Kalemba at the right post.“I just tried to wrap it in and flip it through the goalie’s legs,” Rogers said. “I didn’t really see the end of it, either...
...Tigers led 2-1 at the first intermission after converting on both of their power play opportunities. But Rogers tied the game at 2 with a wrap-around backhand shot that found its way past Princeton netminder Zane Kalemba just 0:57 into the second period...
...while his team was shorthanded, giving the Eagles a 2-1 lead 6:22 into the second. “I overplayed the guy with the puck a little bit,” Reese said. “He made a pass over…and obviously got a backhand shot, and that’s a tough shot to save because backhand shots are hard to read.” Struggling to tie it up for Harvard, sophomore Jimmy Fraser pounded a shot from the right and followed up his own rebound, but Schneider stayed...
...Brisbane scorcher. Any fears for the legend's health evaporate after 10 minutes' rallying, when the younger man is drenched in perspiration while Cooper might have been playing checkers in the shade. "You hit a nice ball," he flatters. "You play the modern way-topspin forehand and double-handed backhand." Cooper's style is an echo of a game no longer seen on the courts of elite tennis, a gentleman's game of long, elegant strokes, a game in which the ball is caressed rather than pulverized, a game best controlled at the net. In half an hour he barely...
...final. Chu’s goal came on a precision pass up the ice from senior forward Liza Solley. After getting the puck, she simply faked left, got the Bobcats’ goalie Janelle Wolitski to go low, and then flicked it up backhand into the back of the net. “I was able to sneak behind the defense and Liza made a great saucer pass on my tape,” Chu said. “I was trying to get [Wolitski] moving side to side, and then I knew I had to put it over...