AREA COLLEGE NOTEBOOK

By STEVE HENSON

Nov. 28, 2000 12 AM PT

Rasheeda Clark was chosen most valuable player of the Pepperdine Classic after leading the Waves to a 69-68 women’s basketball victory over Missouri in the final Sunday.

Pepperdine (4-2) overcame a 10-point, second-half deficit. Damaris Hinojosa, a sophomore from Moorpark High, made a free throw with 42 seconds to play for the winning point.

A Missouri shot with eight seconds to play was blocked by freshman center Shannon Mayberry.

Hinojosa, who scored 12 of her 18 points in the second half, was chosen to the all-tournament team along with Amanda Lassiter of Missouri, Chandi Jones of Houston and Latonya McDole of Kentucky.

Clark, a senior guard, scored 17 points against Missouri.

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Steve Henson

Steve Henson is a reporter with the Fast Break sports team at the Los Angeles Times. He previously served as an assistant editor and reporter in the Sports department. Henson was a leader in digital-only newsrooms from 2007-19 as a senior editor and columnist at Yahoo Sports and as senior editor at the USA Today Sports Media Group. This is his second stint at The Times, having covered the Dodgers and UCLA as well as doing enterprise, investigative and features writing from 1985-2007. Henson was awarded first place in sports features in 2021 by the L.A. Press Club and has been honored several times by the Associated Press Sports Editors (APSE) and also by the California News Publishers Assn., the Football Writers Assn. of America and U.S. Basketball Writers Assn.

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