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Canyon Springs' Chariaha Scott is fouled by Fullerton Troy's Rebecca Lazuka during the first half in a Division I girls basketball regional semifinal in Moreno Valley on Tuesday.
Canyon Springs’ Chariaha Scott is fouled by Fullerton Troy’s Rebecca Lazuka during the first half in a Division I girls basketball regional semifinal in Moreno Valley on Tuesday.
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MORENO VALLEY — Barbara Sitanggan was dynamic, but that wasn’t quite enough for the Troy girls basketball team.

Sitanggan, a sophomore guard, scored 29 points, but that performance was trumped by a trio of players from Canyon Springs of Moreno Vaalley, which beat Troy, 53-43, on Tuesday in  the semifinals of the CIF Southern California Regional tournament.

Troy, which also lost to Canyon Springs in the first round of the Southern Section Open Division playoffs, finishes 24-8.

Canyon Springs (23-6) will play Alemany of Mission Hills in the 2 p.m. regional championship game at Citizens Business Bank Arena in Ontario.

Charnea Johnson-Chapman had 18 points and 12 rebounds for Canyon Springs. Cheyenne Greenhouse had 15 points and six rebounds, and Kimari Hollis had 10 points — including a crucial late 3-pointer — and six rebounds.

Canyon Springs finished with a 39-30 edge in rebounding, including a 24-16 advantage in the second half — a crucial difference, according to Troy coach Roger Anderson.

“We have to control the boards, and we didn’t,” he said. “That’s a given.”

Through three quarters, Sitanggan had 23 of Troy’s 29 points.

“We’ve thrown the weight of the world on her,” Anderson said, “and she’s responded like an unbelievable trouper. … We just didn’t help her.”

Anderson felt the game may have been lost in the first quarter, when Canyon Springs jumped to a 19-11 lead.

“Last time we lost here, we gave up 22 in the fourth,” he said. “It’s those big quarters that we knew we had to avoid, and we didn’t avoid it.”

Johnson-Chapman became the third different scoring leader in the Cougars’ three regional games. Greenhouse led with 28 against Bakersfield Centennial, and Hollis had 22 in Saturday’s win over San Marcos Mission Hills.

Canyon Springs never trailed, and had a 13-point lead in the third quarter, but Troy pulled within four before Hollis hit a 3-pointer with 4:03 remaining, pushing the lead to 43-36. Troy was never as close again.