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The Wings won their third straight game Friday, getting a tying goal from Jordan Hall with 3.7 seconds left in regulation before Drew Westervelt scored in overtime to defeat the host Buffalo Bandits, 11-10. The game-winner was Westervelt's third goal of the match. Paul Rabil also had three goals for the Wings (5-3), who moved into second place in the NLL's East Division.  

Elena Delle Donne scored 32 points to help No. 18 Delaware beat host Hofstra, 79-50, on Thursday night for its 20th straight victory. Trailing by four points with five minutes left in the first half, the Blue Hens (25-3, 16-0 Colonial Athletic Association) took over. They scored 13 of the last 15 points to end the half and then the first 12 of the second half to put the game away. The Blue Hens held Hofstra (12-15, 8-8) without a field goal for nearly 11 minutes spanning the halves until Candace Bond hit a three-pointer with 12 minutes, 7 seconds left to make it 55-36.

Christian Mortellite scored 17 points and hit the go-ahead shot as No. 1 seed Hammonton edged eighth-seeded Kingsway, 58-55, Thursday night in a South Jersey Group 3 boys' basketball quarterfinal. Justin Harris hit two free throws with three seconds left to seal the victory. Kingsway's Ray Lawry, who scored a game-high 21 points, missed a half-court shot at the buzzer that would have sent the game to overtime. Moorestown 52, Burlington Township 32 - Yuseth Green and DeAndra Montgomery combined for 29 points as sixth-seeded Moorestown upset the third seed.

Fortunately for the fourth-seeded Sterling girls' basketball team, Tyra Satchell saved her best for the second half. The Silver Knights trailed by three points at the break to fifth-seeded Cedar Creek, but Satchell poured in 18 of her 26 points after halftime in a 61-50 win in a South Jersey Group 2 quarterfinal Wednesday night. The senior point guard also dished out five assists and went a perfect 9 for 9 from the free-throw line. Fellow senior Tori Shinkowitz netted a career-high 12 points.

With a few weeks remaining before Selection Sunday on March 17, what must the best teams in the City Six do to earn at-large bids to the NCAA men's basketball tournament? Five teams have a realistic chance, with the odds much better for three of them. La Salle (19-7, 9-4 Atlantic Ten), Temple (19-8, 8-5 A-10), and Villanova (18-11, 9-7 Big East) remain in the running, although all three have work to do in the regular season and most likely the postseason tournaments. Villanova will visit Pittsburgh (21-7, 9-6)

Fortunately for the fourth-seeded Sterling girls' basketball team, Tyra Satchell saved her best for the second half. The Silver Knights trailed by three points at the break to fifth-seeded Cedar Creek, but Satchell poured in 18 of her 26 points after halftime in a 61-50 win in a South Jersey Group 2 quarterfinal Wednesday night. The senior point guard also dished out five assists and went a perfect 9 for 9 from the free-throw line. Fellow senior Tori Shinkowitz netted a career-high 12 points.

Carmelo Anthony scored 35 points; J.R. Smith hit the tiebreaking shot with 1 minute, 10 seconds left; and the New York Knicks overcame Stephen Curry's NBA season-high 54 points to beat the Golden State Warriors, 109-105, on Wednesday night at Madison Square Garden. Curry was 18 of 28 from the field, finishing one shy of the NBA record with 11 three-pointers, in a performance that had the crowd hanging on his every shot. But the Knicks finally stopped him with 1:28 to play when Raymond Felton blocked his shot with the score tied at 105. Elsewhere: Russell Westbrook scored 29 points, Kevin Durant recorded his third career triple-double and the host Oklahoma City Thunder finished a perfect three-game homestand by routing the shorthanded New Orleans Hornets, 119-74.

THE POPE is coming to Philadelphia - probably - and drawing as many as 1 million followers for a World Family Day Sept. 22-27, 2015, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput said Monday. Pope Benedict XVI announced in June that he had chosen Philly to host the next gathering of families, which happens every three years. It's the first time the event will be held in North America. It's expected to draw tens of thousands of followers to Philly, but could bring many more. Milan, which hosted in 2012, saw 1 million people attend the event's closing Mass, Chaput said.

It will be bigger by far than the GOP convention, which filled the city in 2000. Exactly how big, no one yet knows. Mayor Nutter and Archbishop Charles J. Chaput on Monday formally announced plans for Philadelphia to host the World Meeting of Families, a Catholic gathering expected to bring the next pope here in 2015. It was the first question to Chaput at a midmorning news conference: Will the new pope, expected to be chosen in March, come to the city? "I can't imagine that he won't, but I can't promise that he will," Chaput said at the Philadelphia Archdiocese in Center City.