U.S. Rolls Into Softball Gold-Medal Game
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ATHENS, Greece - Right now, the Americans aren't just a Dream Team - they're more like the Perfect Team. Lisa Fernandez pitched a three-hitter Sunday and Crystl Bustos drove in two runs as the Americans rolled to their eighth shutout in eight days, 5-0 over Australia, putting them into the gold-medal game against the Aussies...
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ATHENS -- The US women's soccer team, determined to reclaim the Olympic crown it lost to Norway in overtime in Sydney, begins the knockout stage tonight when it takes on vastly improved Japan in the quarterfinals.
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Jamie Southern pitched a one-hit complete game to lead the defending champion United States past Britain 7-0 Wednesday to remain unbeaten at the softball world championships.
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Fourteen months after giving birth to her first child, Jennie Finch threw a three-hitter yesterday in her longest outing of the year as the United States advanced to the championship game of the World Cup of Softball with a 7-0 victory against Canada in Oklahoma City.Finch (1-0) struck out eight in six innings and extended her scoreless streak to 19 1/3 innings.âI havenât felt this good in a long time,â said Finch, whose son, Ace, was born in May 2006. âItâs been a long year of hard work in the weight room and on the field trying to get back.âThe United States (5-0) was the only team to make it through round-robin play undefeated. Canada still retained some hope of reaching the championship game but would need help from Japan (3-1), which was to play a late game last night against China (2-2).
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ATHENS -- Yukiko Ueno pitched the first perfect game in Olympic softball history, leading Japan to a 2-0 win over China yesterday and a spot in the semifinals.
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The US softball team won its third straight gold medal with an unprecedented and almost unblemished romp through the Olympics, capped by a 5-1 title victory on Monday over an Australian team that never had a chance.
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ATHENS, Greece - They missed shots, threw the ball away and got beat on defense. In the end, though, Shannon Johnson and Tina Thompson helped the Americans pull out another gold-medal victory...
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ATHENS, Greece -- There were 17 seconds left, and it was finally time for the change. The US women&#39;s basketball team had clinched the Olympic gold medal Saturday for the third time in a row.
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ATHENS, Greece - At first glance, it would seem to be the perfect matchup - a dream draw, if you will. All the United States has to do to claim a third straight gold medal in women's basketball on Saturday is beat Australia, which is 0-12 against U.S...
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Monica Abbott pitched a complete game and Stacey Nuveman hit two home runs Thursday as the defending champion U.S. team crushed New Zealand 15-0 at the softball world championships.
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Cat Osterman pitches a two-hit complete game and strikes out nine, lifting the United States past China, 2-0, at the softball world championship in Beijing.
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The United States women set themselves up as the team to beat at the world championships â and maybe next year in Beijing, too â with a razor-sharp and nearly mistake-free romp in qualifying yesterday in Stuttgart, Germany. They scored 245.025 points to take a 3.85-point lead over China.
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Japan's Yukiko Ueno pitched the first  perfect game in Olympics history in a 2-0 softball win over  China Friday.
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Krissy Wendell had a hat trick in the United States' 6-3 victory over Sweden on Saturday that put the Americans into the gold medal game of the Four Nations Cup international women's hockey tournament.
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The red, white and blue U.S. softball  machine are one win away from their third straight gold medal  after rolling over Australia 5-0 in their semi-final on Sunday.
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U.S. women take two of the three medals in beach volleyball
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Tanya Harding jumped up, shrieked with delight and wrapped her arms tightly around Australian catcher Marissa Carpadios as the two kicked up dust with a dance in the infield dirt. The Aussies were guaranteed one more game at the Olympics &#151; and another shot at the United States. This time for a gold medal.