Championships

Playing for Church Farm coach Marc Turner requires sacrificing yourself for your teammates, your coaches, and your program. Saturday at Villanova, yet another class of Griffins did just that, winning their third straight District 1 Class A boys' basketball championship, 52-33, over Gospel of Grace Christian. "This team once again has shown that you cease to exist as an individual," Turner said. "You need to turn into a team before you can win. " Juniors Aondofa Anyam and Jan Bohm broke out as team leaders this season and scored 12 points apiece in the title game.

Lincoln's Matthew Huckabee (Timber Creek) was selected to compete at the NCAA Division II indoor track and field championships March 7-9 at the Birmingham CrossPlex in Birmingham, Ala. Huckabee, a freshman who ranks 16th in Division II in the shot put, won the CIAA Conference championship, setting a school record with a throw of 16.66 meters. He also qualified for the ECAC/IC4A championships this weekend at the Armory in New York City. Ursinus' Chris Rountree (Haddon Heights)

Once in a while, Brittany Moore explained, the Spring-Ford girls' basketball team holds an impromptu dance party in the locker room to pump itself up for game time. But if you hung around the locker-room area Wednesday expecting to hear a bit of the Harlem Shake, or any other top-40 hit, you were out of luck. "We didn't dance today," Moore said. "It's getting a little more serious now. " Spring-Ford looked the very definition of a serious team in a 63-30 rout of West Chester Rustin in a PIAA District 1 Class AAAA semifinal at Norristown.

It certainly wasn't the topic that drew 150 teenagers Wednesday to the South Jersey Debate League's high school championship. "Resolved," it read, "the United States federal government should substantially increase its transportation infrastructure investment in the United States. " More funding? Less funding? It didn't matter. Debate is sport, and up on the stages of Lenape High School would be the two top performing schools - Cherokee and Eastern Regional - from Burlington, Camden and Gloucester Counties.

Who: St. Joseph's Prep vs. Neumann-Goretti When: Monday, 8:15 p.m. Where: The Palestra. Records: SJ Prep is 20-4 with a four-game winning streak. N-G is 19-5 with a two-game winning streak. Coaches: William "Speedy" Morris, 12th season, 254-75 (642-171 in 28 total seasons at three schools). Carl Arrigale, 15th season, 338-81. Arrigale was the Inter-Ac MVP while playing for Penn Charter in 1984 under Morris. Their teams have met 21 times during Morris' 12 seasons at SJP. Arrigale leads, 14-7 overall and 4-0 in playoffs.

Clearing the Record Anthony Piscopo of La Salle recorded a decision to win the 182-pound weight class in Saturday's PIAA District 12 Class AAA wrestling championships. His school was listed incorrectly in Sunday's Sports section. The Explorers had six first-place finishers. Owen Barnes of Bishop McDevitt won the 120-pound final in the Districts 1/12 Class AA wrestling tournament. The wrong winner was listed in the results Sunday.

One day after Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods went home, more top seeds followed Friday in the Match Play Championship in Marana, Ariz. No. 3 seed Luke Donald lost to Scott Piercy, as did No. 4 seed Louis Oosthuizen , who never led against Robert Garrigus . Masters champion Bubba Watson , the No. 8 seed, was the only top-10 seed remaining. American Stacey Lewis shot a 3-under 69 at the Siam Country Club Pattaya Old Course in Chonburi for a 12-under 132 to keep her 3-stroke lead after the second round of the LPGA Thailand.

AT THE END of Saturday's basketball practice, coaches John Dennis and Tim Hood offered a little advice to their pint-size players: Better pack enough underwear for the Small Fry International Basketball tournament at Disney World, they teased. Or they'd have to borrow some from the coaches. And nobody wants that. What the coaches didn't say is that the players might not be going anywhere. When Dennis and Hood formed the Philly All Stars last year, a lot of people made a lot of promises to the Small Fry team: sponsorship, donated gym time, jerseys.

There weren't many similarities between the semifinal games in the girls' basketball Pennsylvania Independent Schools Tournament on Friday afternoon. One was between league rivals, who had already played each other twice this season. The other was between nonleague opponents that had faced off once, in a Sunday showcase. One was a decisive, double-digit win. The second game looked as if it might head to overtime, until some late free throws sealed the outcome. But if you spent a few hours in the gymnasium of Malvern Prep, one thing was glaringly apparent for Episcopal Academy and Germantown Academy: When each squad needed it most, its premier senior player stepped up in a big way. Both Megan Quinn, a forward for the Churchwomen, and Kiernan McCloskey, a guard/forward for the Patriots, had 12 fourth-quarter points in their respective contests, guiding their teams to berths in Saturday's title game.