Millbrook was the top-ranked girls' basketball team in the N&O area at the end of the regular season.

The season is over, and Millbrook is once again the 4A state champion in girls' basketball. Chapel Hill was runner-up in 3A.

Below are all of the match-ups in 4A, 3A, 2A, 1A and links to our coverage from every round.

N&O all-metro team: 10 players named to the team
Final N&O Top 15 rankings: Millbrook No. 1, Chapel Hill No. 2, etc.
All District teams: Kiara Leslie, Mylia Garner honored
All-state: Leslie (Holly Springs), Garner (Jordan-Matthews), Briana Day and Ryan Flowers (Millbrook)

Here's a look at today's local headlines:

GROWTH TALKS: The Glen Lennox redevelopment is being touted as an example of cooperation between the derveloper and area residents. Find out why the Town Council will set up a development agreement with Grubb Properties but wants more discussion before doing the same for Obey Creek. Tammy Grubb has the story.

UFO IN CARRBORO: Blog readers read it here first. Still waiting to hear your idea thoughts on what Roy Mars saw last weekend in the sky over Carrboro. Read my story here.

DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE: When the Chapel Hill High drama department got back its new script from a New York playwright they realized they couldn't stage it and they were out $4,000. Read what they came up with instead in Dave Hart's story. 

Also today, for non N&O subscribers, we recap two other big stories of the week: a girl bringing a loaded .45 to a local elementary school and a Carrboro woman who had a baby in a campus bus shelter. 

All that plus your letters, local sports and the sad news this week of ACC writer and former CHN sports editor Eddy Landreth's passing at age 54.

Thanks for reading,

Mark 

The good folks at NCRunners.com have crunched all of this year's cross country numbers and came out with top-10 rankings for every championship class in both genders.

In the interest of having you visit NCRunners.com and supporting that site, we won't tell you who is ranked where. But we will list below the area teams that made each ranking and provide links to each of NCRunners' full rankings.

Chapel Hill High School is hosting some of the Triangle's top volleyball teams this weekend in the Chapel Hill Invitational Volleyball Tournament. Chapel Hill, N.C. Science and Math, Riverside and Wilmington Hoggard headline the tournament which also features Carrboro, Cedar Ridge, East Chapel Hill and Northwest Guilford.

Chapel Hill (No. 4 preseason N&O), Science & Math (No. 14), Riverside (No. 3) and Carrboro are in pool 1 while East Chapel Hill, Cedar Ridge, Northwest Guilford and Hoggard (4A runner-up in 2011) are in pool 2.

Seven Triangle teams will open boys' soccer play this week in the second Orange-Chatham Challenge.

Monday, at East Chapel Hill, East hosts Cary Academy at 6 p.m. and Carrboro plays Siler City Jordan-Matthews at 7:30 p.m. Chapel Hill hosts Burlington Williams at 7:30 p.m. Monday, and Northwood plays at Durham Academy.

Green Hope, Clayton, Millbrook and East Chapel Hill win area 4A Wells Fargo Conference Cups. Carrboro, Chapel Hill and Corinth Holders also win Conference Cups.

Different methodologies are yielding different results on competing lists of the nation's top public high schools.

Four schools in the Triangle made the top 100 of Newsweek magazine’s “America’s Best High Schools 2012” list that was released this week. A total of 11 Triangle schools made the top 1,000 school list.

In contrast, only three schools in the entire state were in the top 1,000 in the U.S. News & World Report list released this month. Broughton High School in Raleigh was the only Triangle school in the top 1,000 on that list at 966.

The Hilltop Invitational, the Triangle's largest spring break baseball tournament, begins Thursday and uses the fields at East Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, Orange and Cedar Ridge high schools to host two eight-team tournaments.

The "American Division" is hosted by East Chapel Hill and Orange and features Cary, East Chapel Hill, East Forsyth, South Granville, Burlington Williams, Granville Central, Maury (Va.) and Orange.

The "National Division" is hosted by Chapel Hill and Cedar Ridge and features Cardinal Gibbons, Durham Jordan, Surry Central, Cedar Ridge, Southern Alamance, Kernersville Glenn, Tallmadge (Ohio) and Chapel Hill.

Denzel Ingram of Chapel Hill and Kristen Gaffney of Green Hope have been named the North Carolina high school boys and girls players of the year by ncpreps.com.

Denzel Ingram of Chapel Hill is the Carolina Six 3A boys basketball player of the year.