SOUTHERN SECTION GIRLS' BASKETBALL: NEWBURY PARK HALTS SANTA MARGARITA.

Santa Margarita found a way to contain Newbury Park's high-scoring senior guard, Brynn Cameron, Wednesday night. But it didn't stop Newbury Park from pulling off a 56-43 upset of the second-seeded Eagles in a Southern Section Div. III-AA quarterfinal game at Santa Margarita.

Newbury Park (16-7) rallied from a 10-point first-half deficit and held Santa Margarita (23-7) scoreless for the final 3:04 to advance to the semifinals on Friday.

The USC-bound Cameron, who averaged 31.5 points in her four previous games and scored 40 points in Newbury Park's second-round victory over Monrovia, finished with 15 points.

Cameron was limited to six points in the first half and was scoreless in the second with Santa Margarita playing a box-and-one defense. Sophomore Kavita Goss and junior Christina Bobik helped pick up the slack, scoring 14 and 12 points, and senior Chelsea Fleher had nine points.

``There was basically no way I could get open without anyone setting up screens,'' Cameron said. ``It made everybody else open and they weremaking their shots. I wasn't worried. The other girls picked it up and were playing hard.''

Newbury Park, which outscored Santa Margarita 28-10 in the second half, scored the game's final nine points after holding a 47-43 lead.

- Kirby Lee

DIV. I-AA

--Palmdale 47, Valencia 45: Perennial powers find ways to pull of improbable wins in improbable fashion, and such was the case for Palmdale, which upset visiting Valencia despite not hitting a field goal in the fourth quarter.

The host Falcons (21-8), who last season reached the Div. I-AA semifinals and are ranked No. 9 by the Daily News, play Long Beach Wilson on Saturday at a site to be determined.

Valencia (21-6) is ranked No. 2.

``I can't believe it, I thought we were done,'' Palmdale point guard Sandy Perry said. ``How can you survive without a field goal (in the last quarter)?

``It was our defense, basically. We finally stopped their 12-0 run and that's what we had to do. We got them to take quick shots really fast and came back and just held them.''

Brittany Blankenship led Palmdale with 14 points and was 4 for 4 from the free-throw line in the fourth quarter. Perry had Jennifer Lee each had 10 points.

Kelly Tarver scored 13 points for Valencia.

- Gideon Rubin

DIV. I-A

--Hart 50, Simi Valley 34: Ashlee Trebilcock, Taylor Lilley and the Hart of Nehwall defense made Sim Valley's final game of the season a frustrating one in a second-round game at Simi Valley.

Trebilcock had 21 points and Lilley 14 for Hart.

Simi Valley (20-9) briefly stayed with Hart (26-1), even working a short-lived 10-5 lead midway through the first quarter.

But from that point on, baskets became much harder to come by as the Hart defense denied Simi Valley shooters the inside lanes and outside 3-point shots that make their team go.

The Hart defense allowed Simi Valley just three 3-point shots in the game, two of them by reserve players Serena Campbell and Chelsey Di Panni in the final minute of the game.

Trebilcock carried the Hart offense in the first half, scoring 14 points as Hart took a 27-17 lead into the halftime break.

- Bill Schlotter

DIV. II-AA

--Santa Barbara 38, Westlake 32: Westlake (19-9) fell behind 11-9 early in the first quarter and never recovered, losing the second-round game at home.

Westlake nearly got back into the game in the third quarter when it cut the lead to 25-22 after a 3-point basket by Kathryn Scardino. Santa Barbara, however, outscored Westlake 8-6 in the fourth quarter.

- Tim Tanner 

DIV. III-A

--Rosary 59, Chaminade 36: Kelly Cochran scored a team-high 15 points and collected seven rebounds but host Chaminade of West Hills (18-10) could not handle top-seeded Rosary of Fullerton (25-4) in a quarterfinal game.

Cochran scored eight of her points in the first quarter as Chaminade jumped out to a 12-9 lead. However, Rosary started the second half with a 6-0 run sparked by Karina Figueroa's only basket of the game to give her team the lead that it never let go.

Nikki Alburn had 10 points and five rebounds as the rest of the Chaminade players could not score more than three points.

Rosary's Cara Enright scored a game-high 23 points before sitting out the final two minutes. Teammate Erin Noonan added 13 points for Rosary.

- Julio Cortez

DIV. IV-A

--Brentwood 56, Montclair Prep 47: Indira Kaljo and Jessie Mira combined for 32 points for host Montclair Prep of Panorama city, but the Mounties could not stop Brentwood's Tanya Tsikanesky, who scored 25 points, including four 3-pointers.

Kaljo scored 18 points and Mira added 14 along with four assists and two steals for Montclair Prep (16-10), which trailed by two at the end of the first quarter, but was outscored by five points in each of the next two quarters.

- Frank Carulli

--Bell-Jeff 65, Cantwell 52: Andrea Morgan scored 21 points for visiting Bell-Jeff of Burbank (22-4) in a come-from-behind quarterfinal victory.

Bell-Jeff outscored Cantwell 21-3 in the fourth quarter to erase a 49-44 Cantwell lead. Kelly Hobbes scored 8 of her 18 points during Bell-Jeff's run.

- Steve Goldstein

DIV. V-AA

--Saint Mary's 58, Oaks Christian 50: Guard Kayla Rutherford scored 20 points, including 14 in the second half, for Oaks Christian of Westlake Village (15-11) in a quarterfinal loss at St. Bernard High in Playa Del Rey.

Oaks Christian, which moved up to Div. IV-AA after winning the Div. IV-A championship, never led but used a 9-0 run to pull to within 45-43 on a basket by Nicole Vollert with 4 minutes, 19 seconds left in the game.

- Mitch Polin

--Rolling Hills Prep 52, AGBU 16: Though it stayed close early on, AGBU of Canoga Park managed six points in the last three quarters an lost on the road.

AGBU trailed 13-10 at the end of the first quarter but failed to score a field goal for more than 18 minutes before Annie Kahwajian scored a basket with 5:40 remaining in the game.

- Jon Lee