Twenty minutes after No. 5 Hidden Valley’s 65-63 overtime win at fourth-seeded Bassett in the first round of the Region IV, Division 4 playoffs, guards DeAndre Kellam, Daniel Martin and the rest of the Bengals' locker room remained in quiet disbelief.

Quiet in that they were disappointed their season had ended.

In disbelief at the way Hidden Valley did it.

Titan guard Daniel Rowe made a spinning, contested and off-balance 3-pointer with two seconds to play in regulation to send the game to overtime, and, in case that wasn’t enough, he made the game-winning free throws with 19 seconds to go in the extra period.

As Christiansburg’s Nikki Burks took another Bassett turnover the length of the floor for what would be an uncontested layup, BHS guard Ariana Covington was already dreading what else could go wrong for the Bengals in the fourth quarter.

But as Burks approached the basket for what would have cut third-seeded Bassett’s formerly comfortable lead down to only three points with 1:31 remaining, the Bengals finally caught a break.

Burks came up short on her layup attempt, and Bassett’s girls basketball team managed to hold on the rest of the way for a 48-42 victory in the first round of the Region IV, Division 4 playoffs on Tuesday at Bassett.

The Martinsville Mustangs announced Tuesday that first baseman Derrick Hopkins and third baseman John Faircloth will return for the 2012 season.

Hopkins, a redshirt junior infielder at Southern University, isn’t new to the area. Raised in Woolwine, he provides power from the plate and stands at 6-foot-3 and weighs 230 pounds.

A look at upcoming events in the area.