Possible Clues:

• "Tale of the tape" statistic
• Get to part of river
• Grasping distance
• Communicate with power
• Come to an open stretch of water
• Get to a church, after religious education
• Part of a boxer's "tale of the tape"
• "___ for the sky!" (cry in a western)
• Stick 'em up!
• Part of every river, to begin with?