VIEWPOINT ONE WIN FROM FINAL.Byline: Gerry Gittelson Daily News Staff Writer After several years of regular-season success followed by playoff play·off also play-off n. Sports 1. A final game or series of games played to break a tie. 2. A series of games played to determine a championship. Noun 1. failure, Viewpoint High School's baseball team is just two wins from its first-ever appearance in the Southern Section Division VI final. Viewpoint travels to Christian Center Academy (14-8) in San Bernardino San Bernardino, city, United States San Bernardino (săn bûr'nədē`nō), city (1990 pop. 164,164), seat of San Bernardino co., S Calif., at the foot of the San Bernardino Mts.; inc. 1854. for a quarterfinal matchup this afternoon. Christian Center, a preseason No. 1 team that lost all its games against larger schools early in the year, has won 47 straight Metro League games despite a listed enrollment of just 65. Both teams have momentum. Viewpoint is coming off a dramatic 6-5 win over arch-rival L.A. Lutheran. Christian Center blew out Southwestern Academy Southwestern Academy is a college preparatory school for grades 6-12 in San Marino, California, USA. It is unique among schools of its kind in that it also has a campus in northern Arizona, located on a ranch on Beaver Creek in the Coconino National Forest near Sedona, Arizona. 22-0 in its only playoff game Noun 1. playoff game - one game in the series of games constituting a playoff game - a single play of a sport or other contest; "the game lasted two hours" playoff - any final competition to determine a championship after receiving a first-round bye. ``We're coming together real well,'' said Chaney Sheffield, Viewpoint's star player whose key three-run home run and stellar pitching sparked the Patriots over L.A. Lutheran. Sheffield (7-2, 1.41, nine complete games) will be available to pitch three innings INNINGS, estates. Lands gained from the sea by draining. Cunn. L. Dict. h. t.; Law of Sewers, 31. against Christian Center. Sophomore John Kogel (5-2, 4.00) will start against the Warriors' Jason Fuerte (9-5, 2.09), a dominating junior right-hander who has struck out 97 in 67 innings. Viewpoint overcame a 5-1 deficit against L.A. Lutheran. Sheffield's fifth-inning homer to center field - his fifth - cut the lead to 5-4. Kareem Shaarwy won it with his run-scoring double in the bottom of the seventh. ``It was great,'' Sheffield said. ``We were all jumping around and hugging each other.'' Until this year, no Viewpoint team in any sport had won a CIF (1) (Common Intermediate Format) A standard video format used in videoconferencing. CIF formats are defined by their resolution, and standards both above and below the original resolution have been established. The original CIF is also known as Full CIF (FCIF). playoff game. ``Winning that game was like a shot in the arm,'' Viewpoint coach Frank Pontello said. |
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