Championships

The Delaware Investments U.S. Open Squash Championships are scheduled for Thursday through Oct. 12 at Drexel's Daskalakis Athletic Center. IThe event is part of the World Series of squash for both the Professional Squash Association and Women's Squash Association. Action begins at 5 p.m. Thursday with the men's   qualifying round.

  Philadelphia middleweight Jesse Hart took a tough loss in his 165-pound men's division title bout on Saturday at the USA Boxing national championships in Fort Carson, Colo., losing a decision to Cleveland's Terrell Gausha, 3-2 on a judges' poll, after the cards came up even at 34-all. Hart, the 22-year-old son of former Philly boxer Eugene "Cyclone" Hart, the 2011 national champion at 178 pounds, had advanced to the final match when he decisioned Izaak Cardona of Colorado Springs, Colo., 14-10, on Friday.

Eight area boxers won Pennsylvania State Golden Gloves championships over the weekend at the Front Street Gym. Antonio Duboise (123 pounds), of Shuler Memorial Gym; Sefaid Jihad (132), of Boyz's Dungeon; Tyrone Davis (165), of Delaware; and Marquise Dacres (201), of Fast Lane Gym, won titles in the Open Class. In the Novice Class, Mike DiPlocido (178), of Rocco's; and Servino Coffey (201-plus), of Joe Hand Boxing Gym, won championships. In the Cadets Class, Tyrone Arzeivo (114)

Conference Championships SUNDAY AFC: Baltimore at New England, 3 (CBS3) NFC: N.Y. Giants at San Francisco, 6:30 (Fox29) Super Bowl SUNDAY, FEB. 5 In Indianapolis Teams TBD, 6:30 (NBC10)

PITTSFORD, N.Y. - Inbee Park birdied the third hole of a sudden-death playoff with Catriona Matthew to win the rain-delayed LPGA Championship on Sunday. Park made a 20-foot putt on the par-4 18th at Locust Hill Country Club to sweep the first two LPGA Tour majors of the season. She rebounded in the playoff after blowing a 3-shot lead with a closing 3-over-par 75. The top-ranked South Korean star bogeyed three of the final five holes in regulation and hit only six fairways in the round.

TOMS RIVER, N.J. - They lost the coin flip and won everything else. "Once we found out we were the away team, we stepped up," Washington Township senior pitcher Taylor Coroneos said. "We said, 'We'll show what we can do with our bats.' " Washington Township generated 21 hits en route to a 10-3 softball victory over Watchung Hills in the Group 4 state championship game Sunday at Toms River East. Coroneos pitched a four-hitter with seven strikeouts and also was 4 for 5 at the plate, scoring two runs.

It will be an all-Central League state girls' lacrosse final on Saturday, after Harriton closed out Manheim Township, 15-8, Tuesday night in a semifinal at Exeter Township. Katie Melvin, a junior, led the Rams with seven goals, and sophomore Jane Henderson added five more. Junior Melina Avery posted eight saves to earn the win in goal. Henderson's fifth goal came with 14 minutes, 44 seconds left in the second half and gave Harriton a 13-7 lead. The Rams led by 10-6 at halftime. Melvin scored four of Harriton's first seven goals to help build a quick five-goal lead.

Here is a look at the state track and field championships: Groups 4, 1, and A At Egg Harbor Township, Friday at 3:30 p.m. and Saturday at 10 a.m. Group 4 boys' team to watch: Host Egg Harbor has depth in field events led by Kofi Yamoah. Group 4 boys' athlete to watch: Lenape's Mike Williams won the 400-meter hurdles (54.47 seconds) and 400 (50.02) at the sectional meet. Group 4 girls' team to watch: Led by Jess Woodard and Courtney Foster, Cherokee won the sectional title.

Shawnee was fire. Shawnee was ice. "The last two practices, that's all we talked about, 'Be calm and composed,' " Shawnee coach Janae Zechman said after her team's 17-2 victory over Eastern on Wednesday in the South Jersey Group 4 final in girls' lacrosse. Zechman knew her team would be motivated by twin opportunities: to win a sectional title and to avenge an 11-10 loss to Eastern on May 9. The key would be to keep that emotion in check, to combine cool efficiency with relentless determination.

Another strong pitching effort from Dom Cuoci; solid defense; and two big innings, mixed in with some luck, led to La Salle's first Catholic League baseball championship since 2005. Saturday afternoon's 10-0, five-inning triumph over archrival St. Joseph's Prep at Widener also served as redemption. Last year, before making their run to the PIAA Class AAAA state crown, the Explorers bowed to Neumann-Goretti in eight innings in the league final. "As awesome as it was for us to win a state title last year, not winning the Catholic League left a bad taste in our mouths," senior first baseman Chris Melillo said.

Three riders, Victoria Colvin of Loxahatchee, Fla.; Gabrielle Bausano of New York; and Sydney Shulman of Greenwich, Conn., tied for the Equitation Championship on Friday, a very unusual result at the Devon Horse Show and Country Fair. That championship is decided on points, and in most cases only one rider is pinned champion. There were four equitation classes divided into 12 sections, and Colvin won two sections and placed third in another. Bausano won one section and had two second-place finishes, while Shulman had a first, a second, a fourth, and a fifth.

WEST WINDSOR, N.J. - It took three sets and three shirts. It took more than two hours, several ice bags, a wet towel, and a change in strategy. But at the end of a long and grueling match at the end of a long and grueling day, Moorestown senior Hamza Husain emerged with a victory to clinch the Group 3 state boys' tennis title for the Quakers. "I'm dead tired," Husain said after his three-set victory provided the decisive point in Moorestown's 3-2 triumph over Demarest on Wednesday.

As Jack Huemmler eased down the stretch to win the 1,600 meters at the PIAA District 1 championships Saturday, he casually glanced back over his shoulder a couple of times. Safe to say the Strath Haven senior won't be doing anything of the sort this weekend when he goes for gold at the state track and field championships. Huemmler is the top-seeded Class AAA miler in the two-day event, which begins Friday at Shippensburg University. "At states, I'm not going to be looking back.