1.   They had taken the initiative, with their offense moving almost at will and defense providing its finest performance of the season.

2.   Also, what may have been their very finest performances, captured on record, become the measure for what happens on any particular night at the Met.

3.   Battier saved one of his finest performances for his final college game.

4.   Benoit Benjamin was upstaging the finest performance of the season for himself with a costly turnover.

5.   -- Like goaltender Stephane Fiset, who overcame two major injuries this season to give perhaps his finest performance against the Ducks.

6.   Also, in contrast to the ebullient Kern, Ioudenitch rarely smiled onstage, even when a thunderous audience celebrated his finest performances.

7.   But whatever happens in Prague, Martin may already have turned in the finest performance of the week.

8.   For all the understandable clamor for positive roles and representations, the finest performances were all bad girl-loser roles.

9.   Its finest performances will be viewed as a minimum standard.

10.   This year, playing a recovering stroke victim, he gave the finest performance anywhere.