Sentence examples for incoming ball from inspiring English sources

Liverpool's goal came about as a result of his reluctance to head an incoming ball under pressure from Michael Owen.

Time and again, Hawkins played the marking duel like a ruck contest, working the incoming ball to a team-mate's advantage.

Gordon also suggested that I could better use my other arm by extending it along the baseline, rather than pointing toward the incoming ball, as players have long done, to help hold my upper torso and shoulder back until my hips had first engaged and cleared.

Djokovic, though, hits with a two-handed backhand, and it has become the best of any in men's tennis: he takes the incoming ball "on the rise" (before it kicks up high) and sends it back across the net quickly and hard.

Being a soccer goalie is a tough job, requiring split-second assessments of an incoming ball's speed, direction, and altitude, along with an instantaneous response to intercept the shot.

In the 75th minute, Trautmann, diving at an incoming ball, was knocked out in a collision with Birmingham's Peter Murphy in which he was hit in the neck by Murphy's right knee.

Microsoft has demonstrated games like dodge ball where people can jump, hurl balls at opponents and dart out of the way of incoming balls using natural motions.

If the mega striker is successful in completing the move, you then act as the goalie to block the incoming balls.

For the benefit of beer girls and fans alike, shrill whistles warned of every incoming foul ball, after which officials rushed to the impact site to check for injuries.

In the third, being manhandled, he still punched an incoming long ball to Jordan Murdoch in the goalsquare; then controlled one on the half-volley at a sprint, ignored the tackle being applied, and flipped a handball out to the passing Andrew Mackie.

If a baseball player performs differential equations in his head to calculate the trajectory and velocity of an incoming fly ball, he'd never catch it.