Sentence examples for team risen from inspiring English sources

There came a time when Duncan Fletcher's team, risen from mediocrity, no longer needed the back-to-basics leadership of Nasser Hussain, the most exasperated of all England captains.

Not only has the women's team risen to a new level, grabbing a No. 5 seed in the N.C.A.A. tournament after a 29-3 sevenn, even after losing the conference tournament final to Dayton, but the men's team made a surprising run through the Atlantic 10 tournament and grabbed an automatic bid when it toppled Xavier in the final on Sunday.

The team rose to first place the next day, and has been there ever since.

But the team rose to the occasion and won 95 games in a very tough American League East.

If the team rose to prominence next season, the thinking went, it would surely be following his bullish lead.

The team rose to second place in 2006 but generally did not hit well enough to support its strong pitching staff.

According to Forbes, from 2002 to 2011, annual revenue for the Red Sox jumped to $272 million, from $152 million, and the value of the team rose to $912 million, from $426 million.

Looking back, it would seem that 2004 had more to do with a tough, rambunctious Red Sox team rising up than it did with the Yankees suddenly playing poorly.

He has been managing a team atop a program built logically on organization, defense and counterattacking, yet a team rising unimaginably for Icelanders.

Since then, Selig has watched his team rise to play in the World Series in 1982 behind players like the Hall of Famers Paul Molitor and Robin Yount, then sputter.

ABOUT a month ago, as the Rutgers football team rose to 10th place in the national polls, I thought about a student who recently transferred to another college.