Simi Valley Advances

Mindy Gondrez lost only three games in three sets and Simi Valley High defeated Marmonte League rival Camarillo, 13-5, in the second round of the Southern Section Division I girls’ tennis playoffs Monday.

The Pioneers (20-1) and Scorpions (18-3) split in the regular season and tied for the Marmonte League title. Simi Valley plays at Woodbridge in the quarterfinals today.

In other second-round playoff matches:

West Torrance defeated Hart, 12-6, in Division II; in Division III, top-seeded Harvard-Westlake defeated Burbank, 17-1, and Calabasas defeated San Dimas, 15-3, in Division IV.

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Senior Kelly Harrington of Louisville High, who finished eighth in the state Division IV cross-country championships last year, will miss the rest of the season with mononucleosis.

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Former Chatsworth High and Ventura College basketball star Eddie Miller has signed a letter of intent with Washington State.

The 6-foot-8, 220-pound Miller was most valuable player of the Western State Conference last season at Ventura. He has decided not to play this season while finishing classes at Ventura.

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Pepperdine received letters of intent Monday from high school basketball players Craig Lewis, a 6-3 guard from Benson Tech in Portland, Ore., and Brandon Armstrong, a 6-5 guard from Vallejo, Ca. The Waves are committed to an NCAA-limit 13 scholarships for the 1998-99 season.