US softball team enjoys dominant Olympic run
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When Australia scored a token run in the fifth inning of the gold medal game Monday at the Olympic Softball Stadium, it was the first scored here against the US - in the ninth and final game
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ATHENS -- After Australia beat the United States softball team in a preliminary-round game four years ago on a walk-off homer, American ace Lisa Fernandez received a card from the Aussie team with the message, &quot;Lisa, we got your number.&quot;
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ATHENS, Greece - 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.    Australia set up the rematch by defeating Japan 3-0 later Sunday behind Tanya Harding, who has beaten the Americans twice during her Olympic career and is likely to face them again for the championship...
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The US Women&#39;s National Team did not string together a complete 90 minutes of soccer in beating Japan 2-1 in its Olympic quarterfinal on Friday, however, it was the side&#39;s finest performance of the tournament so far.
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Sheryl Swoopes produced a late run to  lead the United States to a 66-62 women's basketball victory  over Russia Friday and into their third consecutive Olympic  gold medal game.
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The United States retained the Olympic  women's 4x400 meters relay title Saturday with a commanding win  over its traditional rival Russia.
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The US swimming team was slow off the blocks but is heading for home at full speed propelled by Tuesday&#39;s dramatic relay victory, US women&#39;s head coach Mark Schubert said on Wednesday.
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Mike Candrea doesn&#39;t dream much these days, but a vision of sorts came to him Sunday night. Members fo the United States softball team celebrate their gold medal win over Australia.
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Yet Lisa Fernandez desperately longed to give up her gold-medal moment to US softball coach Mike Candrea. &quot;He truly deserved to be on that podium,&quot; said Fernandez, the winning pitcher for the United States
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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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They are America&#39;s newest golden girls -- powerful and just a shade from perfection. The US softball team won its third straight gold medal with an unprecedented and nearly unblemished
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U.S. softball sluggers Jessica Mendoza and Crystl Bustos on Tuesday slammed two homeruns at the world softball championships, clinching a 3-0 victory over Japan and giving the Americans the gold medal.
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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...
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ATHENS -- Ten hours after capping their round-robin play with a win, the Canadian softball team watched its medal hopes disappear on TV last night. Canada&#39;s 1-0 win over Italy was rendered inconsequential later in the day when Japan&#39;s Yukiko Ueno threw ...
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ATHENS -- The coach of the United States softball team had a dream the other night. As Mike Candrea explained yesterday, it has been hard enough sleeping for the last month, let alone dreaming. The dream had nothing to do with these Olympics -- and everything to do with these Olympics.
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ATHENS, Greece - The U.S. softball team won its third straight gold medal with an unprecedented and nearly unblemished romp through the Olympics, capped by a 5-1 victory Monday over an Australian team that, like the rest of softball's elite, never had a chance...
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Not sun. Not wind. Not Japan. Right now, nothing can stop the U.S. Olympic softball team. Helped by two errors, one on a ball lost in the unforgiving Mediterranean glare, the Americans scored three runs in the eighth Monday for a 3-0 win over Japan. The victory extends the U.S. team's winning streak to 73 games.