Leslie Cook scored eight of her game-high 19 points in the final six minutes to lead No. 2 seed High Point to a 65-61 win over No. 3 seed Coastal Carolina in game six of the 2006 Advance Auto Parts Women's Basketball Championship Friday night at the Vines Center in Lynchburg, Va.  The Panthers will face No. 1 seed Liberty in the title game Saturday at 2:00pm ET on FSN South and CSN Mid-Atlantic.  High Point improves 20-9, while Coastal finishes at 18-10.

Tonight's victory gives High Point their first 20-win season since becoming a Division I program in 1999. The last time that the Panthers recorded the 20 win mark was in 1997-1998. This is the first 20 win season of head coach Tooey Loy's career.

The Lady Chanticleers jumped out to an 11-3 lead five minutes into the game, but High Point rallied to make it 11-10 two minutes later.  CCU held onto a 16-14 lead at 11:59, only to see the Panthers tie it on Ayonna Thompson's lay-up at 11:45.  High Point then moved ahead by four at 20-16, but Coastal came back to tie it at 20-20 at 8:29 on Amber Rose's jumper and moved ahead 22-20 at the 7:33 mark.  However, High Point regained the lead on Candyce Sellars' trey and used a 13-2 run to over a 4:52 span to take a nine-point lead at 33-24, as well as the eventual 35-28 halftime lead.

The second half started with High Point holding onto its nine-point lead through the first three minutes.  Coastal trimmed the deficit and regained the lead at 42-41 with 13:04 remaining when Alisha Dill hit a three-pointer.  The game went back-and-forth for another four minutes before the Panthers moved ahead by five with 3:36 to go.  But CCU would not go down so easily and kept pace behind Rose and Kim Turner.  Turner brought Coastal to within two at 63-61 at 1:20, but Big South Player of the Year Katie O'Dell countered with a lay-up for the final margin.

"This was a tough game tonight. At this time in the season both teams really know each other well," said Loy. "You have to take your hat off to Coastal, they played a great game both offensively and defensively. The nature of our team this season has been that we are able to generate offense when we need it."

Joining Cook in double figures was O'Dell with 13 and Sellars with 11 points.  Dill posted 14 points to lead Coastal, while Turner grabbed a game-high 11 rebounds. 

High Point advances to the championship game for the second time ever and first since 2003, when the No. 3 seed Panthers lost to No. 1 seed Liberty.  Saturday's game will be the first No. 1 vs. No. 2 women's championship game since 2001.