They won the first eight matches in succession including a 5 – 0 whitewash in 1920 – 1921 at the hands of Warwick Armstrong's team.

Largely assisted by the return of Boycott, Brearley's men won the 1977 series 3 – 0 and then completed an overwhelming 5 – 1 series win against an Australian side missing its WSC players in 1978 – 79.

With several England players having retired or been injured after the 2005 series, Australia regained The Ashes in the 2006 – 07 series with a convincing 5 – 0 victory, the second time an Ashes series has been won by that margin.

In Berkshire, a successful skirmish at the Battle of Englefield on 31 December 870 was followed by a severe defeat at the siege and Battle of Reading by Ivar's brother Halfdan Ragnarsson on 5 January 871 ; then, four days later, Alfred won a brilliant victory at the Battle of Ashdown on the Berkshire Downs, possibly near Compton or Aldworth.

ASU has won 23 national collegiate team championships in the following sports: baseball ( 5 ), men's golf ( 2 ), women's golf ( 7 ), men's gymnastics ( 1 ), softball ( 2 ), men's indoor track ( 1 ), women's indoor track ( 2 ), men's outdoor track ( 1 ), women's outdoor track ( 1 ), and wrestling ( 1 ).

Although the Falcons won 3 of their last 4 games after the return of Michael Vick, they ended up with a dismal 5 – 11 record that year.

After the ceremony, the Diamondbacks won the game against the San Diego Padres 6 – 5 after a walk-off home run by Chris Young, who also led the game off with a home run in the Bottom of the First Inning.

That victory meant Ajax had won every tournament ( 5 in total ) they entered that year, a feat Celtic achieved in 1967 ( with 6 trophies ) and Barcelona ( also 6 trophies ) repeated in 2009.

Chile won its formal independence when San Martín defeated the last large Spanish force on Chilean soil at the Battle of Maipú on April 5, 1818.

Former Indians 1B and later manager Mike Hargrove, who won 5 American League Central Division | A. L.

In Game 5 the Cubs took a 3 – 0 lead into the 6th inning, and a 3 – 2 lead into the seventh with Sutcliffe ( who won the Cy Young Award that year ) still on the mound.

Chicago halted St. Louis ' run to the playoffs by taking 4 of 5 games from the Cardinals at Wrigley Field in early September, after which the hapless Cubs finally won their first division title in 14 years.

They led the Wild Card by 1. 5 games over San Francisco and Houston on September 25, and both of those teams lost that day, giving the Cubs a chance at increasing the lead to a commanding 2. 5 games with only eight games remaining in the season, but reliever LaTroy Hawkins blew a save to the Mets, and the Cubs lost the game in extra innings, a defeat that seemingly deflated the team, as they proceeded to drop 6 of their last 8 games as the Astros won the Wild Card.

The Rockies also won the second game in Philadelphia, 10 – 5, with the help of Kazuo Matsui's 4th inning grand slam.

On August 25, the Rockies won 5 – 4 on another walk-off thanks to Troy Tulowitzki's bases loaded, one out single in the bottom of the 10th.

But as in the previous series, San Francisco won the first two games behind Tim Lincecum and Barry Zito, cutting the Rockies Wild Card lead to 2. 5.

The game was won by Tufts 1-0 and a report of the outcome of this game appeared in the Boston Daily Globe of June 5, 1875.

In his rookie season, Earnhardt won one race at Bristol, captured four poles, had 11 Top 5 finishes, 17 Top 10 finishes, and finished 7th in the points standings, in spite of missing four races because of a broken collarbone, winning Rookie of the Year honors.

He won five races and had ten Top 5 and sixteen Top 10 finishes.

However, the Oilers won 4 of the next 5 games to take the series.

" Exile II: Crystal Souls won the 1995 Eddy Award Honorable Mention for Best Shareware Game of the Year, and received a 5 out of 5 star rating from ZiffNet.

At the 2009 Local elections held on 5 June 2009, Fine Gael won 556 seats, surpassing Fianna Fáil which won 407 seats, and making Fine Gael the largest party of local government nationally.

This has added excitement to several pennant races over the years, most recently in, and ; the first two times the division title was won by the Cubs, the third by the Cardinals, who went on to win the National League pennant as the Cubs faltered in the second half of the 2004 season.

Considered one of the best NASCAR drivers of all time, Earnhardt won a total of 76 races over the course of his career, including one Daytona 500 victory in 1998.

Although he won at Darlington, he failed to finish 15 races, and completed the season 12th in points, the worst of his career.

In 1983, Earnhardt rebounded and won his first of 12 Twin 125 Daytona 500 qualifying races.

In the process, Earnhardt set a NASCAR modern era record of four consecutive wins and won five of the first seven races.

Earnhardt went on to win nine races this season and won his fourth Winston Cup title, beating Mark Martin by 26 points.

Earnhardt Jr. won the first of those two races, which was the season-opening event at Daytona.

Brazil's Ayrton Senna won the race more times than any other driver, with six victories, winning five races consecutively between 1989 and 1993.

It was built to win long-distance sports car races against Ferrari ( who won at Le Mans six times in a row from 1960 to 1965 ).

IV ran in only two races, the 1967 12 Hours of Sebring and the 1967 24 Hours of Le Mans and won both events.

In 1980, Taylor and his passenger Benga Johansson won 4 races, and finished on the podium in all seven events.

Brabham won ten of the year's 16 European Formula Two races in his Brabham-Honda.

There was no European Formula Two championship that year, but Brabham won the Trophées de France, a championship consisting of six of the French Formula Two races.

Between them, they have won many sportscar and single-seater races and championships.

He raced in Australian Superbikes in the late 1980s, and also won both races as Superbike World Championship visited Oran Park in.

In 1997, his most successful year, Doohan won 12 out of 15 races, finished second in another two, and crashed out of the final race of the season at his home GP while leading by more than six seconds.

He holds many of the formula's driver records, including most championships, race victories, fastest laps, pole positions, points scored and most races won in a single season – 13 in 2004.

In the 1990 World Sportscar Championship season, Schumacher won the season finale at the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez in a Sauber – Mercedes C11, and finished fifth in the drivers ' championship despite only driving in 3 of the 9 races.

The team is the second oldest active team ( after Ferrari ) and one of the most successful teams in Formula One, having won 180 races, 12 drivers ' championships and 8 constructors ' championships.

Bruce won the Race of Champions at the Brands Hatch circuit and Hulme won the International Trophy at Silverstone, both non-championship races, before Bruce took the team's first championship win at the Belgian Grand Prix.

Alemán's PLC won a majority of the overall mayoral races, but the FSLN fared considerably better in larger urban areas, winning a significant number of departmental capitals, including Managua.