Seventy teams competed, but only two went undefeated, and that's how
the Pistons and the Cavs won Raleigh Parks and Recreation boys
basketball championships.

The Junior League Pistons and the Little League Cavs capped undefeated
seasons by winning their divisions in the City of Raleigh Youth
Basketball Championships played March 17 at the Barwell Road Community
Center.

Twenty-eight Junior League teams and 42 Little League teams are divided
over four Raleigh Parks and Recreation Department districts, program
manager David Tugwell said.

For the third year, Triangle athletes have an easy trip to USA Triathlon's April 24-25 National Duathlon Festival - less than three hours' drive to Richmond, Va. - but if you're planning to enter, you should hurry.

Registration for the run-bike-run competition already is near last
year's total of more than 1,700 entrants, USA Triathlon said. (The
schedule is below.)

Entries for the featured event, the USAT Duathlon Age Group National Championship - a 5K run, a 38K bike ride and a finishing 5K run -  on Tuesday reached 1,121, and entries for all events had totaled 1,432.

Triangle recreational league coaches and players still have time to
register for a great opportunity: several hours of instruction with USA
Baseball coaches, alumni and staff this weekend.

USA Baseball will conduct its eighth annual clinics Friday and Saturday at the USA
Baseball Training Complex in Cary. Registration closes at 6 p.m.
Friday.

Instruction will come from past and current USA Baseball coaches, and
former Major League players also are on the list of presenters,
according to an event announcement.

This track-out week is anything but a break for Austin Pittsley.

The seventh-grader at Lufkin Road Middle School in Apex has been busy
writing letters, making phone calls and putting up posters.

It's all to promote a wheelchair basketball event Friday featuring Lufkin Lightning players from his school and Junior Thunder
players from Bridge II Sports, a Durham-based nonprofit that provides adaptive and wheelchair sports opportunities in the Triangle.

The Capital Area Soccer League has honored Cameron Jarvis of Wake
Forest and more than 350 other young players with its Fall Hamilton
Sportsmanship Awards.

Jarvis, 9, is a fourth-grader at Pleasant Union Elementary School in Wake Forest. She plays for the CASL U10 Hearts.

"Sportsmanship means that you help other people. You have to treat the
coaches the way they treat you," Jarvis, the daughter of Steve and Beth
Jarvis, said cheerfully during a telephone interview Monday evening.

Tennis organizations on national and local levels campaign hard to
increase participation. One of those efforts takes place in the
Triangle starts this weekend.

Triangle "Tennis Night in America"
programs will be held Friday, Saturday and Monday. (A list is below.)
Area clubs and organizations, assisted by the U.S. Tennis Association,
will conduct events to get youths involved in leagues and team tennis,
including USTA Junior Team Tennis.

The events are held in conjunction with Monday's BNP Paribas Showdown for the Billie Jean King Cup
at New York's Madison Square Garden for the second straight year.
Former No. 1 Ana Ivanovic will face Kim Clijsters, and Venus Williams
will play Svetlana Kuznetsova in the semifinals of the one-night
exhibition.

One of the perks of living in North Carolina is rarely having to stop
playing golf. Tournament series continue over the winter, and hardy
golfers turn out to compete.

Among the winter golfers are the juniors who compete in the Eastern Junior Golf Association, which visited Eagle Point Golf Club in Wilmington on Feb. 6-7.

Andrew Fowler of Cary and Eric Bae of Raleigh were among the champions crowned on Sunday at the invitational event.

The Triangle 18 Black team won the Black Division for ages 16-18 at
the Mid-Atlantic Power League volleyball tournament played Saturday and
Sunday at the Raleigh Convention Center.

The Pennsylvania Volleyball Academy 18s team was second in the
tournament, which consisted of 48 elite-level Junior Olympic girls
teams in each of two age divisions.

The Blue Division (ages 13-15) title went to the Carolina Juniors Volleyball 15 Blaze of Charlotte.

Triangle swimmers swept individual high-point honors and took four of the top eight places in the team competition at the N.C. Swimming Senior Short-Course Championships held Jan. 28-31 in Huntersville.

Victoria Mitchell, 17, of the Marlins of Raleigh-Wolfpack Aquatics won
the women's MVP award with 127 individual points, and Dominick Glavich,
16, of the YMCA of the Triangle Area Swim Team won the men's award with
137 points.

Mitchell, winner of the 500, 1,000, 1,650 freestyles, became the third
MOR swimmer to win the senior championships high-point award, coach
Paul Silver said.

Wet weather has forced the postponement of Saturday's Carolina RailHawks-CASL fundraising soccer clinic at WakeMed Soccer Park.

A new date will be announced.

The
RailHawks professional soccer club and the Capital Area Soccer League
announced last week they would hold a joint soccer clinic and donate
proceeds to the Haiti earthquake relief effort.