Sentence examples for a preliminary game from inspiring English sources
The Americans are careful not to boast about their chances and have little to say about the Cubans, whom they will play in a preliminary game Saturday.
One of his favorite moments involved a spectacular dunk over the 7-foot-2 Frenchman Frederic Weis in a preliminary game.
Eight days ago, it came within 9 points of the United States before losing, 85-76, in a preliminary game, the closest any team had come to United States professionals since they were first allowed to compete at the Barcelona Olympics in 1992.
Bill Guerin, Brian Rolston, Doug Weight and Mike Modano, who have a combined 57 years of N.H.L. experience and 11 Olympic appearances, led the United States to a 4-1 victory against Kazakhstan in a preliminary game Thursday at the Torino Esposizioni.
Playing backup to Al Montoya, he was given the start for a preliminary game against Belarus.
He added an assist in the tournament for two points in five games as Germany failed to win a preliminary game, missing out on the playoff rounds.
For the next two weeks, beginning with a Sunday preliminary game against Puerto Rico, Brown will try to squeeze gold out of his team of 20-somethings, a group that has encouraged and discouraged him in the run-up to the Games.
Filatov was named best player of the game for a preliminary round game against Finland and for the bronze medal game against Slovakia, and he was named to the Tournament All-Star Team.
When Malone anchored some very good Louisiana Tech men's teams in the early to mid-1980's, fans had a habit of packing the 8,200-seat 8,200-seatembly CenThomasr whAssembly Center to be a women's preliminary game, then suddenly forling hungry what the men trotted out.
With Bure injured as a result of a bruised kidney suffered in the preliminary game against the United States in Detroit, he would not play in the main tournament.
Cameroon face a marathon month in June, with 2014 World Cup qualifiers against DR Congo and Libya, follwed by a 2013 Nations Cup second-leg preliminary game against Guinea-Bissau.
