It was close for a while

I put up a decent match today.
It was a cold rainy Sunday.
Coffee and Scrabble were the words.
I jumped out to a huge lead.
The tiles were falling for me.
Big points and long words.
But she fought like a tiger.
Buffy never got discouraged, never gave up.
In the end she passed me.
Like a jockey spurring a horse.
She sprang over the line with Xu.
She never looked back.