ARCATA — Happy to make another trip to the southern part of the state, the Humboldt State women's basketball team takes its next step in the postseason when it battles host Cal State San Bernardino in the California Collegiate Athletic Association Tournament semifinals. As the highest remaining seed, the Jacks face the originally No. 8 seeded Coyotes at 3 p.m. Friday in Coussoulis Arena.

Making its second appearance in the tournament in the event's two-year history, Humboldt State advanced to the semifinals with a 82-61 win over Cal State Stanislaus. The victory, Humboldt State's ninth in a row, improved HSU's overall record to 22-6, the best mark in program history.

Cal State San Bernardino pulled off a big first-round upset, defeating No. 1 seed and CCAA regular season champion UC San Diego, 62-57 in La Jolla. The Coyotes moved into the semifinals as the No. 4 seed with an 11-16 overall record.

Tournament Seedings
Tuesday's Scores
No. 8 Cal State San Bernardino 62, No. 1 UC San Diego 57
No. 2 Humboldt State 82, No. 7 Cal State Stanislaus 61
No. 3 Cal State Dominguez Hills 62, No. 6 San Francisco State 59
No. 5 Chico State 45, No. 4 Cal Poly Pomona 42

Friday's Semifinals
No. 2 Cal State Dominguez Hills vs. No. 3 Chico State, 12:30 p.m.
No. 1 Humboldt State vs. No. 4 Cal State San Bernardino, 3 p.m.

CCAA Tournament Web Site
To access up-to-date information on the tournament, including live stats and scores, a tournament web site has been set up at http://goccaa.org/Sports/championships/2009/09tourney.asp.

Jacks vs. Coyotes
Humboldt State's two wins during the 2008-09 CCAA season evened the all-time series record at 3-3. …On Jan. 17 the Jacks defeated the Coyotes, 61-51in Lumberjack Arena. They made it a clean sweep on Feb. 20 with a 69-51 victory at San Bernardino.

Live Stats
Live statistics during Tuesday's game will be available for viewing at  http://www.sidearmstats.com/csusb/wbball/xlive.htm

On-the-Air
Friday's game will be broadcast live on KATA, 1340 AM, the North Coast's ESPN radio affiliate. The webcast is also available for out-of-area listeners, accessed through the Humboldt State Athletics site at hsujacks.com. …Assistant Athletic Director Dan Pambianco will provide play-by-play from San Bernardino. Friday's broadcast begins at 2:45 p.m. with the pregame show from Coussoulis Arena. …CSU San Bernardino will provide live streaming video of Friday's game through their web site at the following link: http://acm.csusb.edu/videoproduction/livevideo.html.

Probable Starters
#21 Paige Peterson, 5-10, Jr., point guard
#32 Andrea Bobic, 5-8, Jr., shooting guard
#33 Taylor Kilgore, 5-10, Jr., wing
#20 Katie Franci, 5-9, Sr., forward
#34 Brittney Taylor, 6-0, Jr., post

The Gleason Era
In five years guiding the Jacks, head coach Joddie Gleason has achieved a 84-54 overall record. Her teams have posted winning records four straight seasons. In the 30 years before the Gleason era, the program posted winning records only six times. Prior to Gleason's arrival, Humboldt State had suffered through six consecutive losing seasons, including a 4-23 campaign the year before Gleason took over as head coach.

Lumberjack Notes
Humboldt State's Katie Franci and Brittney Taylor were honored earlier this week with selection to the all-CCAA first team, as chosen by a vote of the league's coaches. Taylor, a junior from  Playa del Rey, is HSU's leading scorer with an average of 14.9 points per game, and Franci, a senior from Sebastopol, averages 14.0 points and 9.5 rebounds per game. …Opening up the interior for Franci and Taylor are the Jacks' perimeter threats, including juniors Taylor Kilgore, Andrea Bobic, Jen Enos, Paige Peterson, and senior Trisha Alaba. Bobic currently leads the pack with 50 three-pointers and a 40 percent shooting mark from long range. As a team, HSU has made 207 three-pointers and has shot 37 percent from beyond the arc. …Franci has moved to the top of the all-time HSU list in single-season rebounding, where her current total of 265 has passed the previous best of 254 achieved by Dawn Miner in 1992-93 and Julie Mack in 1993-94. …Looking beyond the CCAA event, the Lumberjacks are a solid lock to advance into the NCAA Division II West Region Championships, which begin March 13 at a site to be determined. Humboldt State was ranked No. 4 in this week's regional poll, the final rankings released prior to Sunday's announcement of the field of eight that will make up the regional field, and the entire field of 64 nationwide. …Saturday's CCAA championship game advances the winner into the regional field as the league's automatic qualifier. Along with the Jacks, CCAA semifinalists CSU Dominguez Hills (7th) and Chico State (9th) are also listed in this week's poll.

Coyotes Notes
Cal State San Bernardino bounced back from two losses that ended its regular season to take the first-round win over favorite UC San Diego. The Coyotes were the only conference team to defeat UCSD this year, achieving the feat twice. …Junior guard Krystal Urzua paced CSUSB to Tuesday's win, scoring a game-high 26 points. She was particularly effective from three-point range, hitting 6-of-9 attempts. On the season, Urzua paces her squad with an average of 14.2 points per game. …Also averaging in double digits for CSUSB is Jaclyn Rainville, who scores 10.2 points and averages a team-high 7.8 rebounds per game.