Sentences with phrase «championship victory for»

The dark - horse contender fighting in the ring, eager to claim championship victory for himself, is the «Crush Your Mortgage» contender.

Although last season's Spartak victory started the run that confirmed their first championship victory for 16 years, such a massive game after each teams» own... [Read more...]

Niamey Harris threw down the dunk and provided an exclamation point to a history - making state championship victory for the Mission High boys basketball team.

But in the race Barrichello dropped back and eventually got a puncture, whilst Button fought his way up to fifth in a fine display of overtaking and took a remarkable championship victory for the Brawn team.

Not exact matches

Yes, Pittsburgh is known for its offense, a unit that, if it performs at a high level, starting in the divisional round, should be a force great enough to carry the entire team to three - straight victories and a championship all by itself.

The incident cost Kenseth a victory that would've qualified him for the four - driver championship.

Offensively, Doug Kistler pressured the desperate Deacons with his outside shooting (for 22 points), and John Frye calmly dropped in four foul shots in the final minute to give the hustling Blue Devils a 63 - 59 victory and 32 - year - old Vic Bubas a championship in his first year as a head coach.

VENTURA KEYS TO VICTORY: Coach Ann Larson likes to play defense, and if she can find a way to slow down Osborne, keep the score low, and seniors Svannah Paige and Aubrey Knight play well, the Cougars could be playing for a first ever state championship.

After the restart Shwartzman cruised off to an easy victory, but for Fenestraz second place was enough to secure him the championship as title rival Will Palmer (yup, Jolyon's brother) could only manage sixth.

Coming off their second Super Bowl victory in three years and fifth overall in the Brady / Belichick era, the New England Patriots loaded up for another championship run.

«First team to win a section championship for boys volleyball at our school, and then we come out and win NorCals for our section,» Roseville outside hitter / libero Jason Cole said after the victory at Dublin High.

With three races for the 1957 world championship for manufacturers now run, Ferrari has gone ahead of its keenest rival, Maserati, two victories to one.

The Hopkins game closed out the regular season amid reports that Maryland needed a victory to be selected for the NCAA championships.

Patrick Reed is 5 - under and in the mix for his first major championship while Jordan Spieth lurks at 3 - under in pursuit of his third major victory.

After St. John's won the championship game rather routinely 85 - 77, with Mullin, a 6» 6» sophomore, and Goodwin, a 6» 5» senior, mixing and matching for 43 points, the Redmen owned 27 victories — a school record — and Carnesecca finally ditched the con.

Asashoryu, the current yokozuna who is going for a record seven straight tournament championships — a streak unaffected by his exhibition victory last weekend — is Mongolian, as are many of the rikishi, and attendance is down.

The field at the PGA Championship is competing for the Wanamaker Trophy and the final major championship of the year, but whoever comes away with the victory will also be rewarded handsomely.

2014 and 2015 champion Petter Solberg finished 2nd, but 5th place for Mattias Ekstrom was enough to secure him the title with a round to spare, adding Rallycross honours to his two DTM championships and three Race of Champions victories.

Only 39 EF7s will be made - one for every championship and victory he has in F1 and IndyCar - and while there's no indication of price yet, you can bet it'll be somewhere in the region of # loads.

And when it came time to dole out rings for Chicago's championship victory over the Jazz, Jerry Reinsdorf saved one for Steigenga.

Murphy, who believed the 2012 team let down after its emotional NCS championship victory the week before, isn't concerned about a similar scenario with this team now that it's charted new ground for the program.

The battle for victory went right down to the final corner of the final lap but the best thing of all is that it was between the two championship challengers Andrea Dovizioso and Marc Marquez.

While it may take a few races for Montoya to get re-acclimated to open - wheel racing, Penske has stacked the deck in his efforts to both return to Victory Lane at Indianapolis and pick up the team's first championship since 2006 (Sam Hornish Jr..)

The Rumble kicked off WWE's build to WrestleMania, and the publicly owned company listened to its fan base when Shinsuke Nakamura claimed victory in the men's Rumble and challenged AJ Styles for the WWE championship at WrestleMania 34 in New Orleans.

Jack Beckner swung gracefully to victory in side horse, tied for first in parallel bars, scored 106.65 points for all - round title and led Los Angeles Turners to AAU gymnastics championship at Amherst, Mass..

BOBSLEDDING — Italy's Eugenio Monti confounded experts at world bobsled championships at Cortina, Italy, by steering Italy's four - man team to.2 - second victory over favored German and U.S. teams with aggregate time of 5:04.75 for four heats.

I can only hope that this attempt is taken more seriously than the largely muted and clearly unsuccessful protests of late last season... although the plane writing escapade brought some much - needed attention to the matter, it failed to resonate with fence - sitters and those who had just recently fell off the Wenger truck... without a big enough showing of support the whole endeavor appeared relatively weak and poorly organized, especially to the major media outlets, whose involvement could have significantly changed what was to follow... but I get it, few wanted to turn on their club, let alone make a public display of their discord... problem is, they are preying on that vulnerability, in fact, their counting on you to keep your thoughts to yourself... who are you to tell these fat cats how to steal your money... they have worked long and hard to pull the wool over your eyes... they even went so far as to pay enormous sums of cash to your once beloved professor to be their corporate spokesmodel so that the whole thing would be more palatable... eventually the club made it appear as if this was simply a relatively small fringe group of highly radicalized supporters, which allowed the pro-Wenger element inside the club hierarchy to claim victory following the FA Cup win... unfortunately what has happened to this club can't be solved by FA Cups or a few players coming in, the very culture of this club needs to be changed and that starts at the top... in order to change the unhealthy and dysfunctional narrative that has absorbed this club we need to remove everyone who presently occupies a position of power... only then can we get back to the business of playing championship caliber football, which should always be the number one priority of this organization... on an important side note, one of the most devastating mistakes made in the final days of this hectic and poorly planned transfer window didn't have to do with the big name players like Sanchez or Lemar, but the fact that they failed to secure Jadon Sancho, who might even start for Dortmund this season... I think they might seriously regret this oversight... instead of spending so much time, energy and manpower pretending that they were desperately trying to make big moves, they once again lost the plot due to their all too familiar tunnel vision

He waited until after the championship was clinched to go for x-rays that night, then flew to Cleveland to enjoy the victory parade on crutches.

ROWING — The NEW ZEALAND heavyweight crew, winners in the North American championships two weeks ago, rowed to a fast 5:43.9 victory over the 2,000 - meter Olympic course in Philadelphia, defeating Harvard by three - quarters of a length for the U.S. championship.

DIED: Austrian Grand Prix Formula I driver JOCHEN RINDT, 28, whose five victories on the European circuit had all but assured him of this year's world championship and left him one short of the alltime record; after his Lotus Ford crashed on Monza's dangerous Parabolic Curve during trials for the Grand Prix of Italy.

Now, we get to see him have to fight back from what, for Cena, is basically rock bottom, possibly en route to his record 17th world championship victory a year from now or whenever WWE gets around to pulling on that thread.

The race is remembered for this championship defining collision, but it also marked Nigel Mansell's 31st and final victory in F1.

In the 14 - 0 Open Division championship victory over Bellarmine, he ran for both scores and had 11 tackles as the Gators pulled off the impossible.

The day after the Sugar Bowl, when Stallings was asked why he didn't seem more overjoyed at having won the national championship, he explained that for him the joys of coaching do not lie primarily in victories.

Grillo followed up his Web.com Tour championship victory of two weeks ago with an overtime win over Kevin Na on Sunday, for his first W in his first start as a card - carrying member in the big leagues.

Clinching their third straight Bundesliga crown this weekend courtesy of a 1 - 0 home victory over a surprisingly resilient Hertha Berlin and second - placed Wolfsburg's identical scoreline defeat at Gladbach, Bayern Munich now have no fewer than 25 domestic championships in the strong room and looking at the season's tale of the tape — just two defeats, 24 wins out of 30, 77 goals scored and only 13 conceded — the competitive deficit in today's top - flight is there for all to see.

The victory ended a run of disappointing championship performances for the Briton.

The Three Lionesses qualified for the semi-final stage of the European championship after they clinched a 1 - 0 victory over France which was watched by more than 3.3 million people — the biggest TV audience ever for women's football.

Currently ranked 3rd in the BCS standings, if LSU had not lost to Tennessee it would be in the national championship hunt, but a victory in the SEC Championship game will secure a BCS berth for the Tigers.

«I'd like to congratulate Grand Slam Little League on their victory as well as Paulino's All - Stars for their participation in the tournament,» said Bronx Borough President Ruben Díaz Jr. «This year's championship game was a tremendous contest between two teams of great kids.

Conor was stripped of his lightweight championship title this week, Dana White earlier announced that this weekend's headline bout between Khabib Nurmagomedov and Max Holloway at UFC 223 will be for McGregor's lightweight championship, with the Dubliner absent from mixed martial arts since his victory over Eddie Alvarez in November 2016.

Although the AI in the game is quite responsive and will attempt to guess your next move, online players prove far more superior to fight, especially when a win means the difference between victory or defeat when they are gunning for that online championship belt.

The Riverside Robotigers are celebrating a victory that qualified them for the FIRST Robotics championships and are scrambling to finance their trip.

The team recently took home the Southern Nevada Lacrosse Association championship for the second year in a row with an 11 - 3 victory over powerhouse Bishop Gorman.

It become famous for its exploits in the World Rally Championship, grabbing six victories and taking the constructor's championship in the inaugural 1973 season.

Keen to emphasise the credentials of the Pista, Ferrari points out that the GTE has taken 29 class victories in the past 50 WEC races and five championships, and that it has also now been running its one - make Challenge series for 25 years.

Early season disappointment at Silverstone, where the winning Audi was disqualified for a too - thin skid plate, has been replaced by tentative optimism following a hard - won victory at Spa - Francorchamps in the second round of the WEC championship in May.

Lone stop north of the U.S. border is one of team's most successful venues Eleven class victories at CTMP in 16 appearances Heading to Canada with GTLM Driver's, Manufacturer's and Team championship leads Both Corvette C7.Rs with GTLM victories in 2017 Combined 12 victories for Corvette Racing drivers at CTMP DETROIT (July 5, 2017)-- Winning sports car races around the world is nothing new for Corvette Racing.

The GTLM championship - leading team is looking for a fourth straight victory...

Gavin and Beretta lost the war for the GT1 drivers championship to their Corvette Racing teammates Johnny O'Connell and Jan Magnussen by 23 points, but they scored a victory in the final battle of the season Gavin and Beretta completed 139 laps in the winning No. 4 Compuware Corvette C6.R, finishing 12 seconds ahead of the runner - up No. 3 Compuware Corvette C6.R of O'Connell and Magnussen.