COLLEGE BASKETBALL ROUNDUP: VALLEY WOMEN ADVANCE TO STATE JC TOURNAMENT.

Byline: Nevin Barich Nevin Barich (born August 6, 1979) is a former American sports journalist now working as the Senior Editor of The National Notary, a trade magazine based in Los Angeles with a circulation of more than 300,000 nationwide. Staff Writer

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Hollywood High is a creative writing game released in 1996 by Theatrix Ineractive. star Markia Derby's layup with four seconds remaining gave the Valley College women's basketball Women's basketball is one of the few games which developed in tandem with men's. It became popular, spreading from the east coast of the United States to the west coast, in large part via women's colleges. team a 69-68 victory over Orange Coast of Costa Mesa Costa Mesa (kŏs`tə mā`sə), city (1990 pop. 96,357), Orange co., S Calif., on the Pacific south of Santa Ana; inc. 1953. It is a transportation, residential, and light industrial center. on Friday night in a 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, regional final at Valley.

With the win, the third-seeded Monarchs (30-5) earned a berth in the state tournament for the first time since 1999. The tournament begins Thursday in Stockton.

Derby led Valley with 24 points, including 16 after halftime, to help her team rally from an eight-point second-half deficit.

``We've depended on Markia all season long,'' Valley coach Mike Muro said. ``She always scored the points for us. But tonight she took it up another notch. She was getting offensive rebounds and keeping us in the game.''

Liliana Ramirez and Itricia Wells each added 14 points for Valley.

The Monarchs managed to pull out the victory despite poor free-throw shooting. The team went just 10 of 21 from the line in the second half after going 7 of 8 in the first half.

Nancy Hatsushi led the sixth-seeded Pirates (25-9) with 20 points, including six of the team's 12 3-pointers.

In other women's games:

--Indiana Wesleyan 75, The Master's 63: Becky Neal scored 18 points to lead Indiana Wesleyan to the victory over the Mustangs in a National Christian College Athletic Association The National Christian College Athletic Association ( NCCAA ) is an association of approximately 100 Christian universities, colleges, and Bible colleges in the United States which see collegiate sports primarily as an opportunity for Christian fellowship and ministry rather tournament semifinal.

The Master's (19-13) was led by freshman Amy Van Doesburg, who scored 15 points. Lesley DuBois added 14 and Elisabeth DeWaalMalefyt 10. The Mustangs will play in a consolation game today at 2 p.m.

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