High school game played at Turner Field
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Posted 6:03PM on Wednesday 14th May 2003 ( 21 years ago )
ATLANTA - Parkview and Lassiter players are used to big games, but nothing prepared them for stepping onto sun-dappled Turner Field Tuesday. <br>
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As he emerged from the Braves' dugout and gazed at the stadium, Lassiter's Luis Cribeiro said, ``It's unreal, like a dream come true.'' <br>
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The senior's day only got better. In the top of the seventh inning, Cribeiro crushed a fastball five rows deep into the left-field seats, giving Lassiter a 6-5 win. <br>
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Cribeiro says he was so excited while rounding the bases thathe could hardly think straight. <br>
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He said, ``That's the most amazing thing I've ever had happen in my life, to hit a bomb here.'' <br>
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It was the first high school game ever played at Turner Field. Lassiter (22-4) got an ounce of revenge for last year's loss to Parkview (24-2) in the state Class AAAAA championship series. Both teams are expected to go deep in this year's state playoffs, which start Friday. <br>
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Georgia played Georgia Tech in the nightcap of Tuesday's doubleheader benefitting Children's Healthcare of Atlanta.
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