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Workload gives Nelson a Game 1 edge over Lawrie
Graham HaysOKLAHOMA CITY -- Stacey Nelson and Danielle Lawrie proved throughout the season that they are the two best pitchers in the country. It's not revisioni...
Blog Entry | Conversation | June 01, 2009North Dakota State brings allure to tourney
Graham Hays...Dakotas involved in the sporting scene (other than ice hockey, of course). It's like watching the Olympic skier from Azerbaijan or the Faroe Islands' World Cup qualifying entry -- only with the added bonus that...
Blog Entry | Conversation | May 16, 2009Welcome back, Lawrie
Graham Hays...from the Washington dugout. Lawrie is back in uniform for the Huskies after a year away on Olympic duty, and while the unfailingly polite and polished British Columbia native is about as menacing off the...
Blog Entry | Conversation | February 17, 2009Softball preseason No. 4: Washington
Graham Hays...last season. Unlike most teams, those faces come with Women's College World Series experience. Back from Olympic duty, junior pitcher Danielle Lawrie should challenge for national player of the year honors. Back from injury...
Blog Entry | Conversation | February 02, 2009Softball preseason No. 5: Northwestern
Graham Hays...20, like the number of rings in the Olympic symbol (spoiler alert: foreshadowing). 5. Northwestern Last season...little wiggle room, she was a good enough sport to go the e-mail route. Q: How...
Blog Entry | Conversation | January 30, 2009Softball preseason No. 6: Arizona State
Graham Hays...Kaitlin Cochran, the best hitter in the world who wasn't in Beijing last summer for the Olympics, and Krista Donnenwirth, who emerged as the Gehrig to Cochran's Ruth. (Sorry, for a Ted Williams...
Blog Entry | Conversation | January 29, 2009Softball preseason No. 8: Stanford
Graham Hays...Ashley Hansen -- the only high school invitee to the selection camp for last year's United States Olympic team -- joins Alissa Haber, Rosey Neill and Maddy Coon, as well as one of the best pitchers...
Blog Entry | Conversation | January 27, 2009Softball preseason No. 9: Arizona
Graham HaysThe softball preseason top 20 moves on Monday to No. 9, which also serves as both the countdown on days remaining without softball and the number of n...
Blog Entry | Conversation | January 26, 2009Softball preseason No. 10: Louisiana-Lafayette
Graham Hays...hot corner. Melissa Verde tore her ACL last March in an exhibition game against the United States Olympic team. Instead of submitting to surgery and losing the remainder of the season, she consulted with doctors...
Blog Entry | Conversation | January 23, 2009Softball preseason No. 17: UMass
Graham Hays...big hit when Jennifer Salling elected not to return to Eugene after playing for Canada in the Olympics and they don't factor into our preseason top 20, but they at least have some options...
Blog Entry | Conversation | January 14, 2009With top four seeds, College Cup a tough ticket
Graham Hays...for late buyers but good news for the game. "We're going to make it as a sport when you can't get a ticket," North Carolina coach Anson Dorrance said during Thursday's news...
Blog Entry | Conversation | December 04, 2008Putting the team in All-America team
Graham Hays...she plays the entire game with the look of someone making the turn for home in an Olympic 400-meter race. Sharing the court with the likes of Renee Montgomery and Tina Charles at Connecticut...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 07, 2008
UCLA's Lang expands her game
Graham Hays...by the likes of Joy Fawcett. Since that time she's played in another World Cup, the Olympics, two College Cups and come back from a torn ACL. So if anyone has earned a weekend...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 18, 2008Brown's Hogue enjoys impressive weekend
Graham Hays...a prearranged weekend off for rest and relaxation after a summer spent training with the U.S. Olympic team (a quarter-system school, UCLA isn't currently in session). The Bruins still showed off more...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 16, 2008Making a case for new No. 1
Graham Hays...Rodriguez came off the bench in both games for her first action since returning from a standout Olympic run, but she wasn't among the seven USC players to score goals in the wins. Coming...
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