11.   Pratt was not surprised that Reed survived the threat and gave the Mets their first triumph over the Pirates in the last six games.

12.   She led wire-to-wire in her first major as a pro, becoming the first since Liselotte Neumann to make a major her first triumph.

13.   The haunted pensiveness is gone, blown away with the watershed victory at the Memorial Tournament in June, his first triumph in nine years.

14.   This victory pleased him more, he said, since he viewed it as confirmation of his talent and proof that the first triumph was not a fluke.

15.   A first ever title triumph Sunday will give the club a major confidence boost.

16.   First triumph, then disaster.

17.   For Hingis, it was the first triumph at the German Open, where she had failed to last beyond the quarterfinals in three tries.

18.   For now, however, Korda is happy to wallow in his first Grand Slam triumph.

19.   France won two golds Sunday as cyclist Jeannie Longo-Ciprelli, a five-time world champion, finally scored her first Olympic triumph.

20.   It was also the first English classic triumph for Jarnet.