1.   Bubka needed only five vaults to take the win, but it was by no means an easy one.

2.   But Braves starter Kevin Millwood, who took the win, had grown stronger with each inning.

3.   But desperate for any post-season good, the Astros gladly took the win and headed for San Diego.

4.   But Francis seemed to sense what could happen long before the Rockets took the win.

5.   But the Raiders took the win as an encouraging sign of progress, a glimmer of hope and a welcome respite from the pain of losing.

6.   Dressed in head-to-toe black with newly cropped hair, he took the win in the same laid-back California stride that seems to permeate his designs.

7.   He was more concerned about his team taking the win and perhaps changing the momentum of the series.

8.   Hey, you take a win wherever you can get it around the Palouse these days.

9.   In the last days of the campaign he tired to rally his troops, saying that no one should take a win for granted.

10.   Last Sunday at Martinsville, Va., Burton wound up second to John Andretti, who passed him four laps from the end to take the win.