1.   The obdurate refusal of the crotchety old man to let the neighborhood kids retrieve their stray ball from his backyard.

2.   And when a woman chases a stray ball onto the stage, her expression is not one of spirited competition.

3.   But it is only recently that stray balls have started regularly jamming the gears of french fry production.

4.   Like Jamila Ward, Oliver had been hitting stray balls until Tiger came by to watch him.

5.   Strength-and-conditioning coach Brian Grapes sported a black and blue right eye Tuesday one day after getting hit by a stray ball during batting practice.

6.   The other players pretended to ignore him, until a stray ball rolled his way and Boyd pounced on it quickly.

7.   Timu just beat Tian Strauss to one stray ball kicked through by Van Rensburg.