in the other semifinal. The winners will meet on Saturday at 5:30p.m. to decide the national championship.

Even with its wins over Cal earlier in the season, USC might be the most unlikely team to reach the Final Four with its young contingent.

Fonoimoana is the most visible of the youngsters. She earned Dayton Regional MVP honors after her season-best 25-kill performance in a five-game win over Stanford that sent the Trojans to Kansas City.

Middle blocker Alexis Olgard and libero Natalie Hagglund are the other key freshmen and sophomore Katie Fuller holds down the fort opposite Bateman in the rotation.

The mix of youth has learned to settle in perfectly for the Trojans.

"We don't really look at them as freshmen now," Bateman said. "They've grown up so much since the momentIn its response to a scathing report documenting allegations of sex assault at the hands of police in British Columbia's indigenous communities, the RCMP says it's "impossible" to deal with the accusations unless the victims are identified.

Human Rights Watch released on Wednesday its investigation into the "Highway of Tears" – the name used to describe an infamous 800-kilometre stretch of highway in central British Columbia on which a series of unsolved murders and disappearances of women have occurred.

The investigation, called Those Who Take Us Away, found that while the RCMP have not been able to effectively deal with the problem of missing and murdered indigenous women and girls, there have also been a number of disturbing allegations of rape and sexual assault at the hands of its officers.

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