VOLLEYBALL NOTEBOOK: A FINAL WITHOUT SYNERGY.Byline: Erik Boal Special to the Daily News They don't face each other more than a couple of times a year, but Santa Clarita Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country, Synergy and Outrigger outrigger, canoe-type vessel with a wood or bamboo float attached to the side of the craft and extending out over the water. The term outrigger also refers to the float itself. Canoe Club are developing quite a boys' volleyball rivalry. After beating Outrigger 25-23, 25-19 in last year's championship match of the 16-Open division, Synergy squared off again with the Honolulu- based club team in Wednesday's Gold Bracket semifinals in the 17-Open division at the 26th annual Junior Olympic Championships. Unfortunately for second-seeded Synergy, its bid for back-to-back titles ended where it began last season, as third-seeded Outrigger snapped the team's 12-match winning streak Noun 1. winning streak - a streak of wins streak, run - an unbroken series of events; "had a streak of bad luck"; "Nicklaus had a run of birdies" in Junior Olympic competition with a 32-30, 17-25, 17-15 victory at the Kentucky Fair and Exposition Center in Louisville. Outrigger completed its undefeated 11-match run in the 36-team tournament against Balboa Balboa, town (1990 pop. 2,751), Colón prov., in the former Panama Canal Zone, on the Gulf of Panama. The port for Panama City, Balboa was the administrative headquarters of the Panama Canal Zone. It was also the site of a U.S. navy base (closed 1999). Bay Club's 17 Quicksilver quicksilver: see mercury. (1) (QuickSilver Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA, www.qstech.com) A mobile communications company that specializes in a reconfigurable logic chip for cellphones and PDAs. See adaptive computing. team - the division's top seed - with a 21-25, 25-23, 15-12 victory in Wednesday's final. Synergy, which features several players from the Valencia High team that made its fifth consecutive appearance in a Southern Section final in May, extended its winning streak in this year's event to 11 games in a row with a 25-21, 25-21 victory over Mizuno Sports Performance Volleyball Club of Aurora, Ill. in Wednesday morning's quarterfinals. Synergy, which had lost only one game to North Shore Milwaukee in Monday's pool-play prior to the setback to Outrigger, finished the four- day event with a 9-1 match record and 19-3 games. Over the past two years, Synergy is 18-3 in Junior Olympic competition, winning 37 of 47 games. After losing a thrilling three-game match to the Costa Mesa-based Balboa Bay in the final tuneup tournament before departing for Kentucky, Synergy was looking forward to a possible rematch REMATCH Cardiology Clinical trials–Randomized Evaluation of Mechanical Assistance Therapy as an alternative in Congestive Heart failure–related to use of a portable, electric left ventricular-assist system–LVAS–eg, HeartMate® in the finals. The teams appeared to be on a collision course collision course n. A course, as of moving objects or opposing philosophies, that will end in a collision or conflict if left unchanged: two planes on a collision course; dissidents on a collision course with the regime. , as they held the top two seeds all throughout pool play, putting them on opposite sides of the bracket for Wednesday's eight-team single-elimination playoffs. Balboa Bay, Synergy, Outrigger and Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, Volleyball Club's Kaepa Blue team - the top four seeds - all advanced to the semifinals with victories Wednesday morning. Balboa Bay then reached the final with a 25-17, 25-23 victory over the Redondo-based SCVC Kaepa Blue and extended its winning streak to 21 games before Outrigger rallied to win the final two and the championship. Erik Boal, (818) 713-3607 erik.boal(at)dailynews.com |
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