1.   And why not, when the afternoon had gone so well?

2.   And so my afternoon went.

3.   In other words, the afternoon went as scripted, entertaining but fairly routine.

4.   The afternoon did not go quite so smoothly.

5.   The track seemed to tighten up as the afternoon went on and displayed no obvious bias.

6.   This is how the afternoon goes, a frenzy of yelling, sliding, slipping, and serious sweeping.