Sentences with phrase «of championship tournaments»

When playing solo, you can: challenge a variety of championship tournaments, design your character, take on time trials and freestyle stunt events, play through custom races, or simply drive around aimlessly on your track of choice.

The past two weeks have seen the opening rounds of the championship tournament and it all comes to a head on Sunday night.

Not exact matches

Meanwhile, Thursday marks the beginning of one of golf's major championships as the 80th Masters Tournament gets underway in Augusta, Georgia.

With a championship layout that was voted to several «Best Public Course» lists and is known as one of the finest competitive venues in golf, it has been the host to SCGA Championships and qualifying events for USGA, SCGA, and PGA tournaments.

Both teams were part of a three - way split of the Big Ten regular season championship, and each comes into the matchup with perhaps a shot at a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament.

The final conference tournament championship of 2012 gets underway on Sunday as Michigan State and Ohio State battle for the Big Ten title.

The plan Dey and his companion, USGA President John D. Ames, crossed the seas to place before their British counterparts, the governors of Scotland's Royal and Ancient Golf Club at St. Andrews, was the establishment of a world championship amateur golf tournament, which would bring amateur teams from all the interested nations of the world together once every other year.

Dallas, a senior at Saint Mary's Catholic High, led the Knights to a 6 — 0 record at the MaxPreps Tournament of Champions, throwing a 12 - inning perfect game with 21 strikeouts in a 4 — 0 championship win.

New tennis rules similar to those of Ping - Pong (21 - point sets, single serves and change of service every five points) were used for the first time as Pancho Gonzales of Los Angeles won the annual professional championship tournament from Pancho Segura of Ecuador, 21 - 16, 19 - 21, 21 - 8, 20 - 22, 21 - 19...

The summer before his senior year, Thomas led Flight to the BCI championship in Phoenix, one of the most prestigious amateur tournaments in the country, and was named its MVP.

A 16 - seed defeating a 1 - seed for the first time ever is a nice start, but the tournament loses its luster if that type of unpredictability doesn't continue all the way through championship Monday.

The Orange were fortunate to hear their name called on Selection Sunday, but head coach Jim Boeheim should be commended for lifting a young, thin squad with a punchless offense to three tournament wins, the most recent of which came over popular preseason national championship pick Michigan State.

It tied for the championship of the West Coast Athletic Conference but lost the playoff to Santa Clara, thus missing out on the NCAA Tournament.

Winning a conference championship and locking up a bid to the NCAA tournament is the thrill of a lifetime for any college basketball player lucky enough to live the dream.

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.

ABC will telecast at least 12 tournaments nationally in 1971, but it loses money on golf, even though it televises three of the four major professional championships, and urges its sponsors to buy an advertising package that includes several tournaments, not just the three prestige events.

The Jayhawks won the Big 12 conference tournament for the third time in six seasons, earned a share of the Big 12 regular season title for the 14th straight year, and are now in the Final Four with the hope of reaching their second national championship game since 2012.

Mississippi State has won outright or shared (with Kentucky in 1962) the Southeastern Conference championship three years in a row, but its splendid qualifications and Coach Babe McCarthy's frequent pleas never got the team into the NCAA tournament because of a Mississippi policy prohibiting athletic competition against Negroes.

Dan Orlich, former Green Bay Packer end from Reno, Nev., set a world record in trap - shooting by dropping 399 of 400 targets to take all - round championship of the Sahara Gun Club's fall tournament at Las Vegas.

There are, by minimum count, four good teams that could beat the Blue Devils to the finals: West Virginia, Ohio State (if State can win the Big Ten championship and get into the tournament at all), Loyola of Chicago and Mississippi State.

Since then State has won two more championships, and last season at the NCAA tournament it firmly proved the new status of Southwest basketball by beating Seattle and USC before finally losing to Utah.

The Wildcats, who have the second - best odds (+700) of winning the national championship, are +3150 to enter the NCAA tournament with an undefeated record and +5500 to post the perfect season.

Watching his Del Oro team and the Sac - Joaquin Section's top young golfers develop through his four years on the high school scene, Smotherman enjoyed his CIF Boys Golf Tournament individual championship with plenty of company from near and far in Northern California.

Pitino told his U of L team after a five overtime loss to Notre Dame on Feb. 9 that he wanted them to win the last seven games of the regular season, then the Big East Tournament title and then the national championship.

Since then Duke has won the tournament twice and been to the Final Four twice; it had also won four of its last five meetings with the Tar Heels, including last year's championship game.

He also helped his country to win the under 21 European championships back in 2002, being voted the Golden Player of the tournament to boot, and it is that sort of experience that the Czech's need from the Arsenal number one tonight, as they are precariously placed in third position, with Spain and Croatia above them in group D.

Sergi, an 18 - year - old senior at College Park High, breezed into the 138 - pound championship match at the California Interscholastic Federation championship tournament without too much difficulty, in a tough weight class, in one of the 4 - 5 toughest state wrestling tournaments in the country.

At the recent High School Rugby National Invitational Tournament in Elkhart, Indiana, Jesuit got an unexpected motivation en route to the Marauders» seventh national championship in 17 years of existence.

Sharon, 16, shot a tournament - record seven - under - par 291 to win her 10th straight golf tournament, the girls» 15 - 17 division of the junior world championships in La Jolla, Calif..

He was unable to play in the rest of the ACC tournament, missing UNC's win in the semifinals over North Carolina State and loss in the championship game against Florida State.

39 Test of the Nation's Best Basketball's NCAA tournament pairs 25 colleges who compete for the national championship

Helen won more national titles than I did, and at the time of her virtual retirement from tournament competition she had won more major open championships than any other players except Howard Schenken and John Crawford.

Montana State won the All - College tournament in Oklahoma City last season, tied for the league championship and, along with a couple of other Big Sky teams, beat some of the good Western independents.

St. Francis won the CCS title that season and beat Los Angeles champion Crenshaw on the way to the title game of the Tournament of Champions (the precursor to the state championships) before losing to Castlemont of Oakland at the Oakland Coliseum Arena.

Sure, teams like UMBC (23 - 23) and Texas Southern (20 - 32) own disastrous records that would otherwise leave them out of the tournament, but automatic bids earned through conference tournament championships are still a fact of reality.

Chambers hardly featured for Arsenal towards the end of last season and then was a mere spectator for the under 21 Euro championships which saw Gareth Southgate's England side blow it and crash out of a tournament early once again.

Ted Moehlmann from St. Louis won three titles in the senior division (over 40) of the national badminton tournament 23 years after winning three titles in the first national junior championship ever held.

Over that time US Lacrosse — which makes rules and policies for most levels of the game, helps develop the game at its grassroots and sanctions youth tournaments, the high school national championships and the college club championships — has increased what it spends to promote the sport from $ 1.1 million to $ 9 million.

Goals allowed by Swedish keeper Viktor Fasth to Finland in the third period of the hockey world championship final on Sunday, the same period during which it was announced that Fasth had been named tournament MVP.

Heritage has been firing on all cylinders for quite some time now, riding an 11 - game winning streak since losing to Serra - San Mateo in the championship game of the Don Bambauer Tournament at Marin Catholic - Kentfield on Dec. 30.

SAN ANTONIO — Before Michigan became the hottest team in college basketball and rode a 14 - game winning streak to a Big Ten tournament title and the national championship game against Villanova, the team's captains gathered at the end of a grueling summer looking for a bonding exercise.

Brad Stevens knows how to use Hayward on both ends of the floor: he did it at Butler when Hayward led the Bulldogs to their first - ever NCAA tournament championship game in 2010.

Declan's prowess in water polo has taken him across the world — playing against Romania in the European championships is one of his career highlights, as is winning a Men's invitational tournament in Malta.

Since those early years, the Cowboys have won a total of eighteen EBAL dual meet titles, as well as the team tournament championships.

This was a major upset since Coastal Carolina's odds of winning the championship were 55/1 before the season and 25/1 entering the tournament.

The championship game of the tournament presented a tough line - up of Cambridge, with a 0.5 - point handicap, against the London team.

Chamberlain had been on good progress to return and make the Euro championships with England, however he suffered a setback that has ruled him out of the tournament.

This series is a lot of fun, and tournaments are hosted almost every weekend throughout the region, culminating in championships hosted in Dixon on July 30.

The 1963 NCAA title game between Loyola of Chicago and Cincinnati was surely one of the most memorable in tournament history: It was the last title game to be decided in overtime; the last one before UCLA began its intimidating reign of 10 championships, including seven in a row, over the next 12 years; the first one to be played under a lucrative new six - year television contract that launched college basketball into the big - money era; and, most significantly, the first in which the majority of players on both sides were black — or, as most of the nation was still saying back in March of 1963, Negro.

If, for obvious monetary reasons, the various postseason conference tournaments continue to be held, the regular - season conference - championship teams should have the opportunity to play the winner of the postseason tournament, should they be upset in the tournament.