line. The Tigers are 4-0 since Victor entered the star

You get back from the Euros in France exhausted, under-exercised and bloated. You have four days at home before a walking holiday in Austria and Switzerland. A team youve played against are short and ask if you can fill in for a T20. You agree, offering the pre-emptive excuse that you are essentially foie gras on legs.It has rained and the outfield is slick. In the first over, the ball is edged above and wide of you at backward point. You chase, fall readily into a slide for the first time since you damaged your shoulder at the end of May, gather the ball smoothly and, as you keep sliding, have the wherewithal to toss the ball to a team-mate. It feels vaguely professional. You are encouraged.By the final over you are stationed on the square-leg boundary. A ball is pulled to deep midwicket. Sprinting to your left, you think you will cut it off, but it skids on the damp grass. At full tilt, you throw yourself into the path of the ball. It skips up, is diverted a fraction squarer. At full length, you reach up your right hand and, just as the ball is bouncing over your torso, knock it down into your chest. Your shoulder sticks in the grass. Your body keeps going. You pivot up on your neck, like Jurgen Klinsmann in the 1990 World Cup final, spend an age with your legs off the ground, then flop to earth, the ball somehow wedged in your unusually paunchy midriff. You have been ungainly and spectacular, and have saved two.You bat too high at four. This is not a team youve ever played for before. You may not play for them again. There is a tremendous sense of freedom. You block your first ball. You flat-bat your second to cover, take a couple of paces, stop, and just as youre about to shout No!, realise to your horror that your partner is charging towards you. You dont even bother diving, but the bowler fumbles the throw and you survive.Youve netted against this bowler in the past. On this pitch, at his limited pace, anything short sits up. You pull to midwicket and run two. The next ball isnt quite as short but youre into position quickly and give it the full Ricky Ponting, wrists rolled, splice skyward. It finds the man on the boundary and you run one. It was the best shot youve hit this year.You are out for six, bowled playing too ambitious a drive to a decent delivery that moved away. But for the first time this year, you had fun playing cricket. You did a couple of good things. You won with an over and a half to spare. You go to Austria and Switzerland. You walk, a lot. You lose some of the tournament belly. You develop pains in your toes that marmot oil only partially relieves. Descending through a wood near Gasteig, you feel something bite the index finger on your right hand. You look down and see an insect, perhaps three-quarters of an inch long. It flies off, leaving a small spot of blood on the knuckle. By the following morning your finger is itchy, bright red and swollen like an overstuffed bratwurst. You wonder whether this may make it easier to turn the ball.If your first (batsmanless) net session after your return is anything to go by, the bite, still an angry yellow volcano, causes you to push it down the leg side even more than usual. The only consolation is that, for no reason you can discern, you are suddenly able to bowl at left-handers. Again and again, coming round the wicket, you are able to pitch the ball on or just outside off stump and see it jag away against the angle of delivery. It is, youre almost certain, because of a kink in the Astro, but youll take anything that makes you look good to the legions of dog-walkers.You tire quickly. Your rotator cuff aches. A month of writing 4000 words a day and eating media-centre baguettes, followed by a fortnight of walking 25km a day with a 30kg pack, it turns out, does not make you fit for cricket. Your run-up has lost any sense of spring, your arm is coming over too low.You are conscious of the danger of over-training; you suspect your early-season problems were at least partly caused by over-training. You stop after 120 deliveries. You are nagged by a sense of laziness. You are aware that this is the danger of your personality: your solution to any problem is to do it more, do it harder. You are not good at doing it wiser or doing it better.You have six days till your first game back after ten weeks. You decide the best preparation is one more gentle session.You jog home, weary but with a nagging sense that you could have done more. Scarpe Air Max 270 Nere . Jane Virtanen scored two, and Alex Roach and Elliott Peterson rounded out the offence for the Hitmen (40-15-6). Brady Brassart chipped in with three assists. Colton McCarthy scored twice, Brayden Point had a goal and two assists, and Jack Rodewald also scored for the Warriors (15-35-9), who were 2 for 5 on the power play. 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Vapormax 97 Scontate BATON ROUGE, La. -- Duop Reath matched his season-high with 23 points and LSU scored the last 10 points to defeat College of Charleston 75-65 on Monday night for its fourth-straight win.The Cougars, who trailed by 13 points five minutes into the second half, tied the score at 65-65 on a basket by Joe Chealey with 1:48 remaining. Charleston missed its last four shots while the Tigers scored on their final five possessions.Brandon Sampson made a pair of field goals and Craig Victor hit four consecutive foul shots in the final 90 seconds for LSU (8-2). The Tigers other points came on a field goal by Jalyn Patterson.We took our time running the offense and let things come to us, Sampson said. We stuck to our assignments and got the ball inside. Everything just came to us instead of us rushing everything.Sampson finished with 20 points, while Victor had a season-high 18 points and 10 rebounds. The Tigers shot 50 percent from the field for the fifth time this season.I just like the way our guys dont get distracted, LSU coach Johnny Jones said. Charleston made a great run at the end in tying the game up. We had to fight back and make some plays. Our guys were poised under pressure and made some big plays down the stretch.Chealey had 23 points for the Cougars (8-4), whose five-game winning streak ended. Jarrell Brantley added 11 points.We had a couple of breakdowns on defense at the end where we tried to be aggressive, Charleston coach Earl Grant said. We missed a couple of 3s. We clawed back and never gave up. That game could have gone in any direction. We just broke down at the end and ran out of gas.BIG PICTURECharleston: Once again, the Cougars were unable to deliver a victory against a big-name school. Charleston had lost gamees earlier this season to Wake Forest (78-61) and top-ranked Villanova (63-47).ddddddddddddSU: For the third straight game, the Tigers had to hold off a mid-major team down the stretch for a victory. LSU had beaten North Carolina Central 70-66 and Texas Southern 88-80 in its two previous contests.DOMINANT POST PLAYReath and Victor, LSUs starting post players, combined for 41 points and 18 rebounds. Reath, who blocked three shots, was 10 of 16 from the field and grabbed eight rebounds. Victor was 5 of 6 from the field and 8 of 10 at the foul line. The Tigers are 4-0 since Victor entered the starting lineup. He has averaged 13 points and 10 rebounds in those four games. Two of Reaths three 20-point scoring games have come since Victor became a starter.DEFENSIVE PROBLEMSCharleston had relied upon its defense in winning eight of its first 11 games. However, the Cougars struggled stopping LSU. The Tigers made 50 percent of their field goal attempts (29 of 58). Only Central Florida and Wake Forest had shot higher than 50 percent against Charleston this season. LSU was only the second team to score more than 70 points against the Cougars. Wake Forest scored 78 points.DIFFERENT ROLEAntonio Blakeney, who averaged 22 points in LSUs three previous games, took only eight shots against Charleston. Blakeney made three and scored just seven points. However, Blakeney tied his career-high in rebounds with 10 and handed out three assists.UP NEXTCharleston continues its five-game road trip Thursday at Western Carolina.LSU will play its first true road game of the season Thursday when the Tigers take on Wake Forest. ' ' '