Word: stretch
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...Crimson has struggled to score all season, but this past week the bats have caught on fire. A major reason for this offensive resurgence is that players who leadoff innings are getting on base. Harvard has scored at least six runs in the last four games and during that stretch, leadoff hitters have an on-base percentage...
With less than four months to go before the start of the Olympics, Beijing is nearing the home stretch in its efforts to clean up its air. On Monday environmental authorities announced the latest set of measures to ensure that athletes and spectators won't be subjected to the city's notorious pollution...
...stopper at the end of the game,” Allard says. “She really took on that role and really excelled.” Excelled is no understatement. Since the loss to Princeton, Madick has pitched 25.2 innings of scoreless softball, a stretch that has coincided with Harvard’s 11-game winning streak. Her new role began in an April 3 win over Cornell, the Crimson’s first Ivy victory after an 0-3 start, when Madick bailed sophomore Margaux Black out of a bases-loaded jam in the sixth and pitched...
...certain ways it was our best effort of the year, we just couldn’t pull it out down the stretch,” Tillman said. “I think we probably played too much defense. We failed to clear a couple of times, and had shorter possessions, which put a lot of pressure on them...we probably got fatigued, made a couple of mistakes in terms of the game plan,” he added...
...having a big lead late and not being able to maintain it,” Tillman said. “I thought our guys played very hard, and, in certain ways, I thought it was our best effort of the year. We just made too many mistakes down the stretch.” “It could have gone either way,” said Scholl. “I’m really proud of our guys…Everyone played their butt off for 60 minutes, and that’s all I can ask from them...