Sentence examples for contested series from inspiring English sources

It was fitting that this tightly contested series came down to the last play, and also fitting that Carter took the final shot.

The two have been kept at a distance during the tightly contested series led by the Devils, three games to two, entering Sunday's game.

The table was neatly set for the Cardinals to have the first breakout inning of this tightly contested series and for the Dodgers to make their exit from it.

For instance, he said, the hotly contested series between the Golden State Warriors and the Dallas Mavericks has sold well, as has the final game from last year's championship series between the Miami Heat and the Mavericks.

"That's what we'll be doing in Dubai and it'll be another keenly contested series as it always is against Pakistan".

"It will be a keenly contested series, as they always are, and the focus will be on the cricket," he said.

As standards of grooming became contested, a series of federal cases arose out of rules that regulated the way high-school boys wore their hair.

The team won its first title in the 1956 57 season after defeating the St . LouisHawks in a closely contested final series, which included a double-overtime deciding seventh game.

The unheralded Joel Ward scored 2 minutes 57 seconds into overtime to give the Washington Capitals a 2-1 victory, a fitting end to the most closely contested playoff series in N.H.L. history.

There's a sevens world series contested by 19 countries in 10 cities.

The other two series contested Thursday also stand at 2-1, as Oklahoma City comfortably beat Dallas, and Toronto won at Indiana.