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GATERS 78, MORRIS CITY 64: UNCG recruit Landon Clement scored eight points and hit two key 3-pointers in the third quarter, when the N.C. Gaters broke a 30-30 halftime tie and went on a run to beat Morris City (N.J.) in the finals of the AAU 19-and-under boys basketball national championships Wednesday in Orlando, Fla.

The Greensboro-based team went 7-0. It's the Gaters' third U19 national title in seven years (2002, '05, '07).

Bartlett Yancey graduate LaMarshall Corbett scored a game-high 23 points, and tournament MVP Ridge McKeither (GW Danville, Va.) scored 13. Corbett and McKeither will be teammates this season at Kilgore College, a junior college in Texas.

Dominique Lacey scored 17 points, and Dudley graduate Josh Chavis dished out nine assists.

After taking the lead in the third quarter, the fourth quarter turned into a dunk exhibition, with McKeither, Corbett and Lacey all scoring on monstrous slams for the Gaters.

BALLERS 60, GATERS 57: Nick Barbour scored 14 points and Eladio Espinosa had 13, leading the Greensboro-based N.C. Gaters in a loss to the Showtime Ballers in the eighth-place game at the AAU 17-and-under national championships in Orlando, Fla.

Will O'Huaregbe had 11 points and 14 rebounds for the Gaters, who finished 13th out of 164 teams nationally.

Wrestling

BULLINS SECOND: Chris Bullins, a four-time high school state champion at McMichael and an incoming freshman at UNCG, earned All-America honors at the Freestyle and Greco-Roman National Championships in Fargo, N.D.

In freestyle, Bullins went 8-1 and finished second out of 92 wrestlers in his weight class. He beat two-time All-American Alec Ortez from Oregon on his way to the finals, but he lost 1-0 in the title bout to New Jersey's Scott Winston.

Bullins was seventh in Greco-Roman at the event, which drew more than 4,000 of the best high school wrestlers in the country.