Sentences with phrase «at eventual champion»
During that final round, Woods made a strong run at eventual champion Rory McIlroy and shot a 62.
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Merrins also remembers May's hitting his second shot into the water on the par - 5 17th at Cherry Hills in the quarterfinals of the 1990 U.S. Amateur, handing the match to eventual champion Phil Mickelson.
The year before that, Kitty tried her paw at predicting the MLB season, and while there were some misses, she did a better job of guessing where the eventual champion Red Sox would finish than basically every human who attempted it, and that wasn't the only thing she nailed that the pros missed.
The eventual 5 - 1 loss at the Allianz Arena did more than cost Arsenal another three points in the Champions League, it put them on the brink of elimination in the group stage.
Led by 6» 4» senior All - America center Jayne Appel, Stanford's front line, which goes 6» 4» and 6» 2» at the starting forward spots, and 6» 3», 6» 3» and 6» 5» off the bench, is bigger, deeper and potentially better than it was last year, when the Cardinal made its second straight Final Four before being ousted by eventual champion Connecticut.
We drew at United, contenders sure, lost to Chelsea, eventual champions, but we also lost to Stoke, Southampton, Swansea home and away and Tottenham drawing to Everton and Liverpool.
Venus's last - minute withdrawal from her much - anticipated match against Serena at Indian Wells in March — amid charges of gross disregard for the ticket - buying fan and speculation that their father, Richard, had ordered Serena to lose to eventual champion Venus in their semifinal match at last year's Wimbledon — sparked a public - relations firestorm that hadn't yet been doused.
From that wonderfully melancholy 2 - 1 defeat of Eusebio's eventual European champions Benfica in 1962; edging Spurs out of Europe at the semi-final stage on aggregate, to Jermaine Defoe's five - goal special against Wigan, to Gareth Bale's San Siro encore, the Lane has seen some wonderful moments.
As for the Rockets, they were one of the best teams in the MAC this year, but a three - point loss to eventual West Division champions Northern Illinois kept them from a chance at the conference title.
Yes, an Auburn line led by Nick Fairley came through at key times (a safety and a goal line stand), but even against the eventual national champions, Oregon indeed began to ask the right questions.
(Miami can have no complaints because, unlike the other teams in this paragraph, they did get a shot at the eventual national champion.
She actually retired in her quarterfinal match against eventual champion Caroline Wozniacki, who was No. 1 at the time.
The Lions rolled through the Metro League with a perfect 14 - 0 mark and suffered only one nonleague loss in 2015 (a 78 - 55 setback against Pinewood - Los Altos Hills at the MLK Showcase in Stockton) before entering the section playoffs with aspirations of unseating state No. 1 and eventual Open Division state champion, St. Mary's - Stockton.
Back in February of 2016, I highlighted six teams that were offering value including the eventual champion, Villanova, at +1350.
Towards the end of last season, when Manchester City played in the aforementioned system — Silva was irrepressible — while playing at No. 10 for the eventual champions.
They lost only at a decent Kansas and to eventual national champion Miami at home.
Looking at the net points that we dropped and the points deficit that we have against the eventual champions, we can see that with just 8 more points, we would have been alright.
Five - time winners Brazil were thrashed 7 - 1 in the 2014 semi-finals by eventual champions Germany at the Maracana, but Pele, considered one of the best players of all time, insisted that new coach Tite has formed a team ready to put his country's painful memories to rest.
The immediate aftermath of the Maine Road meltdown wasn't that bad, with back - to - back victories recorded over Bournemouth and Leicester but as proceedings wore on, the poor results continued to pile up — the club conceded 4 goals on three more occasions — at Swindon, Hull and eventual Champions Millwall, the earlier victory over the Lions one of those oddities that any given season will throw up.
After further success with BATE in 2013, including a 3 - 1 group stage Champions League win at home over Bayern Munich, the eventual winners of that season's Champions League, Goncharenko took over at Kuban Krasnodar, his first job in Russia.
Drawn in a horror group at the Asian Cup, Oman were hammered 4 - 0 by eventual champions Australia and lost 1 - 0 to beaten finalists South Korea.
Sane scored a brilliant winning goal in an incredible 4 - 3 victory on the night and, while it wasn't quite enough to knock out the eventual winners on aggregate, Sane had written his name in lights at the home of the then - ten - time champions.