Despite the tears welling in her eyes after her team’s 47-39 loss to Santa Cruz in the Central Coast Section Division IV semifinals, Mercy senior forward Kristy Lee still found the appropriate words to summarize the season for her gritty squad."We just keep fighting to the end," said Lee, the co-Player of the Year in the West Bay Athletic League. "No one expected us to get this far, but we just kept fighting, no matter what happened to us."
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Personal technology accessories are more and more transportable and mobile — such as the stamp-size iPod Shuffle or the Vaio G Series laptop that weighs less than two pounds. The benefits are instant access to information and immediate connectivity. The only detraction is that it’s now a whole lot easier to lose these pricey possessions.
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Trailing 24-12 midway through the second quarter of the Bay Counties League West semifinal playoff game against top-seeded Urban, it would have been easy to chalk up the University girls’ basketball season as over. At that point, the Red Devils had already experienced a tough enough season as it was — they finished sixth in the BCL West at 4-8, including seven losses by six points or less.
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Eight days ago, the University girls’ basketball team was faced with the prospects of win or go home. Four games later, the Red Devils are still playing.University continued the momentum of its surprise Bay Counties West tournament title with a 44-30 first-round upset of St. Vincent of Petaluma in the North Coast Section V playoffs at USF’s War Memorial Gymnasium.
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Aaron Hall scored 25 points, Kevin Robinson added 22 and both hit key shots down the stretch to help the Lincoln boys’ basketball win its final Academic Athletic Association regular-season game 74-64 over host Mission.The Mustangs (20-11, 13-3 AAA), who entered the game with the Lang Division title already wrapped up, got 15 points from Hall in the first half and led 38-30 after two quarters of play.
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Asdirector of communications for Palo Alto eatery Bon Appétit, Maisie Greenawalt is aware of the importance of attracting positive attention to her company.But the adulation Greenawalt has helped Bon Appétit collect spreads beyond the norm of average business fanfare.
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Although he will never rack up considerable tennis style points, Ivo Karlovic continued to make his mark at the SAP Open.One night after taking down world No. 4 James Blake, Karlovic upset another highly regarded American, this time Mardy Fish, with a 7-6 (2), 6-4 victory in the quarterfinal round.Karlovic will face Benjamin Becker, another quarterfinal upset winner, in today’s semifinals.
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Facing a 6-foot-10 giant with a serve to match his stature on a court recently renovated to increase its surface speed couldn’t have been the scenario that James Blake had hoped for in the second round of the SAP Open.Despite all the adverse conditions, Blake still had plenty of chances to advance, but in the end he fell in a heartbreaker to the hard-hitting Croatian Ivo Karlovic 6-7 (4), 7-6 (11), 6-4.
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As the Academic Athletic Association’s regular season is in its final days, talk has increased about players deserving of the making the annual all-league team.Most of the names commonly mentioned are household ones — Arthur Jones and Travis Hom of Lowell are returning all-leaguers, while Jahrail Taylor of Washington and Ronney Freeman of Wallenberg also grabbed spots on the All-AAA team last season.But one player who has generated plenty of buzz — Lincoln senior guard Kevin Robinson — isn’t quite as a familiar.
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It took Andy Roddick a little more than 20 minutes to ring in his SAP Open debut Wednesday, but when the top-ranked American broke free from his opening-round doldrums, he certainly made his presence felt in the tournament he’s favored to win.Unable to win a return point against for the match’s first five games, Roddick finally broke first-round opponent Frank Dancevic in the opening set’s 12th game, sending him on to a tougher-than-expected 7-5, 6-1 victory.
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The first marquee names made their appearances at the SAP Open in Tuesday’s morning session, when the tournament’s second- and fifth-seeded singles players, James Blake and Mardy Fish, teamed together for a doubles match against local favorites Paul Goldstein and Jim Thomas.In a departure from their normal success at singles, Fish and Blake suffered a first-round exit, losing to Goldstein and Thomas 6-3, 1-6, 10-4 (in the match tiebreaker.)
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Tennis has a storied history of marathon matches that take on epic proportions as games build — think Andre Agassi defeating James Blake in five sets at the 2005 U.S. Open or Bjorn Borg surviving John McEnroe in the 1981 Wimbledon final.The sport also has its breezier moments, as recently evidenced by Serena Williams’ 6-1, 6-2 waxing of Maria Sharapova in the Australian Open final that barely lasted an hour.
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The clouds broke long enough to let baseball be played on Sunday, and USF eagerly seized the opportunity to return to its winning ways.Playing for the first time in five days because of rain cancellations, the Dons (3-2) pushed back Sacramento State 8-4, picking up season highs in hits (12) and runs to help snap a two-game losing streak in non-conference play.
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The birth of a product is usually quite formulaic — the creative team of a company develops an idea, and the marketing branch figures out a way to sell that idea. But for Yves Behar and his San Francisco design company fuseproject, the creative and the marketing team are one in the same.
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With its three-deep bleacher seating and modest floor space, Gateway High School’s gymnasium will never be mistaken for Duke’s venerable Cameron Indoor Stadium.But for the 90 minutes that the Gators boys’ basketball team hosted Bay Counties League Central rival Leadership, the diminutive gym transformed into a blaring cacophony of screaming fans, fierce on-court competition and enough dramatic twists and turns to please any self-respecting basketball fan.
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