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Asked if he'd spent much time on the grass field at Moorestown stadium over the last several years, Damon Legato paused, looked around, and seemed to take it in one last time. "Nope," he said. "This is actually my first time back. " Legato, first-year coach of the Haddonfield boys' lacrosse team, was a decorated player for Moorestown in the early 1990s. He coached the team from 2000 to '05, leading the Quakers to South Jersey's first boys' lacrosse state championship in 2001.

Saturday, 1 p.m., at Rowan University. At stake: South Jersey Group 2 championship. Coaches: Haddonfield, Frank DeLano (68-39); West Deptford, Clyde Folsom (197-66-6 overall, 163-55-2 with West Deptford). South Jersey titles: Haddonfield, one (2010); West Deptford, four (2007, 2004, 2003, 2002). Fast fact: This is the sixth straight year that the South Jersey Group 2 final has featured West Deptford and/or Haddonfield. - Marc Narducci

Former Camden Catholic star Bill Heverly has been named the wrestling coach at Haddonfield. Heverly has been an assistant coach at Haddonfield since 2009. He replaces Pete DiPol, who resigned in July to become the coach at Gloucester County College. Heverly was a first-time district and two-time region champion at Camden Catholic. He graduated in 2000 with a 118-21 career record.   - Phil Anastasia  

Haddonfield senior Carolynn Clark has committed to attend Villanova on a field hockey scholarship. Clark led Haddonfield to a 22-2 record and the South Jersey Group 2 title last season. The Bulldogs were 16-0 in Colonial Conference play.   Contact staff writer Phil Anastasia at 856-779-3223, panastasia@phillynews.com , or @PhilAnastasia on Twitter. Read his blog, "Jersey Side Sports," at www.philly.com/jerseysidesports

Runners start the 5-kilometer run in the 16th Annual Bancroft Race in Haddonfield Saturday. (Above) Lauren Benet Slocum, 8, and Jennifer Slocum (middle), both of Mount Holly, stand on the sidelines as the pack approaches the finish line. The race - which included a one-mile race and a 40-yard dash - raises money for services for disabled people in Burlington, Camden, Gloucester and Salem counties.

Overbrook removed 24 players from its football team in a disciplinary measure this week and will forfeit Friday's Colonial Conference game against Haddonfield, athletic director Gary McGaurn said Thursday. McGaurn said the 24 players are off the team for the rest of the season. He did not elaborate on the reason for the discipline. Overbrook plans to play West Deptford in a varsity game at home Nov. 5. "With the young guys we have left [on the roster], they wouldn't have been ready to play this game," McGaurn said of the Haddonfield matchup.

Six years of frustration ended for the Haddonfield boys' swim team yesterday at the NJSIAA Boys Public Division B Swimming Championships at the College of New Jersey. Sparked by two individual event wins from Will Manion and gutsy performances up and down the lineup, the Bulldogs upended nemesis Mountain Lakes, 89-81, ending the Lakers' five-year reign as Division B champions. Four of those championships were at the expense of Haddonfield, with the fifth a win over Shawnee. "Awesome, this is totally awesome," Haddonfield coach Bob Querubin said.

Haddonfield coach Trish McNutt Green was more optimistic than usual during the preseason. Which is something, considering she has guided the Bulldogs to five state girls' basketball titles in her first eight years. Last night, the Bulldogs showed the reason for that optimism. They looked as if they were in midseason form during a 58-42 win over Gloucester Catholic in the opening round of the Haddonfield Tournament. Ranked No. 2 in South Jersey by The Inquirer, Haddonfield (2-0)

Collingswood took a major step toward its first Colonial Conference boys' basketball title since 1977 last night, holding off host Haddonfield, 57-51, and ending the Bulldogs' 67-game conference winning streak. Jason Brogsdale, a strapping 6-foot-5 senior center who has committed to Holy Family, dominated the inside as he collected 15 points and 10 rebounds and helped Collingswood register one of the biggest wins in the program's history. Collingswood (8-1 overall, 5-0 conference)

Perhaps more than any other South Jersey team, you can learn all you need to know about the Haddonfield girls' soccer team from watching it execute a set piece. And in Tuesday night's 3-0 win over Gateway, there were plenty of set pieces. Three, in fact, led to goals in the first 11 minutes, allowing the Bulldogs to cruise to victory on senior night for the team's 13 graduating players. "Big games at this level are decided by restarts," said Haddonfield coach Glenn Gess, whose Bulldogs (13-0)

Highlights of Tuesday's contests can be found at: www.philly.com/rally Baseball SOUTH JERSEY GROUP 2 FIRST ROUND Barnegat 5, Collingswood 1 SOUTH JERSEY GROUP 3 FIRST ROUND Ocean City 10, Woodrow Wilson 1 SOUTH JERSEY GROUP 4 FIRST ROUND Atlantic City 5, Clearview 4 CENTRAL JERSEY GROUP 1 FIRST ROUND Burlington City 5, Henry Hudson 2 Florence 10, East...

Luke Pease scored four times and set up five goals for 10th-seeded Haddonfield, which recorded a dozen assists in sinking No. 23 River Dell, 20-11, Saturday in the opening round of the NJSIAA state Group 1 boys' lacrosse tournament. State Group 4. Quinn Mehigan picked up two of his three goals in the first quarter for No. 14 seed Cherokee, and the Chiefs parlayed a fast start into an 11-6 victory over No. 19 seed Morris Knolls. Colin McDonald had a hat trick along with one assist to lead Rancocas Valley's balanced attack, and the 10th-seeded Red Devils used a 10-4 spree over the second and third quarters to pull away from No. 23 Randolph, 13-7.

Buena softball coach Pam Pickett celebrated her 500th career win, Brittany Scott pitched her fifth no-hitter of the season, and the Chiefs clinched the Cape-Atlantic League National Conference title by burying host Bridgeton, 19-0, on Friday. Allie Collins' three-run homer keyed a seven-run fifth inning that capped the rout. In another Cape-Atlantic clash, Kelly Lupton struck out nine and walked one in tossing a two-hit shutout and Becca Maguire launched a two-run homer, sending host Absegami past Oakcrest, 9-0. Tri-County.

The Moorestown and Haddonfield boys' tennis teams continued their postseason dominance and added to their trophy cases on Friday with a pair of South Jersey championships. Moorestown, which has won a sectional crown in every year except one since 1984, took home the Group 3 title by handing No. 2 seed Delsea its first loss of the season, 5-0. In the match at Eastern, the top-seeded Quakers saw Ryan Dickerson and Pierce Cooper cruise to identical 6-0, 6-1 wins, and Tyler Blessing take third singles from Nick McBride, 6-0, 6-7 (4-7)

With the sun shining on an 80-degree afternoon, Seneca boys' lacrosse coach Rob Davidson looked out on his home field for the last time in the regular season. "We have to be able to play a full game," he said after his team coughed up a second-half lead in a 13-12 loss to Haddonfield on Wednesday. The loss, in a game that essentially served as a dress rehearsal for the playoffs, hardly tarnished a solid regular season in which the Golden Eagles finished 11-5. But it was difficult for Davidson not to focus on his team's flaws so close to the playoffs, which will start Saturday.

Water-logged fields may have delayed Haddonfield's playoff opener by a day, but nothing could derail the Bulldogs' potent offense Wednesday, as Carolyn Clark reached 101 career goals in a 26-12 rout of Maple Shade in South Jersey Group 1 girls' lacrosse. Laurel Falana contributed six goals and two assists, Clark netted five goals and Taylor Ng scored five times for fifth-seeded Haddonfield, which advances to Friday's quarterfinal at No. 4 seed Bishop Eustace. Maple Shade, seeded 12th, received hat tricks from Kacie Booth, Samantha Reader, and Allie Vallen.

Haddonfield coach Bob Bickel knew his team wasn't going to earn an at-large bid to the Joe Hartmann Diamond Classic. "Just missed it, right?" Bickel said the other day. The Bulldogs were on the outside looking in with a 10-6 record at the May 5 cutoff for the tournament selections. But maybe the rest of the field is lucky about that. Haddonfield is one of South Jersey's hottest teams. The Bulldogs have won 11 of 12 since April 15, and they beat surging Moorestown by a 4-3 score on Saturday.