Murrieta Valley girls basketball team holds off late charge by Oxnard to reach Division 3 title game

Murrieta Valley girls basketball team holds off late charge by Oxnard to reach Division 3 title game

MURRIETA — If there is a team that embodies the term “Cardiac Kids” this season, it would be the Murrieta Valley girls basketball team. The Nighthawks reached Saturday’s CIF Southern Section Division 3 semifinal game with back-to-back, one-point wins against Lynwood and St. Monica. With 6:25 left in the fourth quarter Saturday night, Murrieta Valley led 51-30 and it was looking like such late-game heroics weren’t going to be necessary. However, …