It's going to be an all-Delaware County final in the Central League championship tournament.

That became official when Penncrest put the finishing touches on its 51-40 victory over Springfield and, at Bala Cynwyd Middle School, Ridley pulled a 42-40 upset of top-seeded Lower Merion.

In Penncrest's victory, Ian Campbell led three double-figure scorers with 14 points. Rodney Duncan had 13 and Andrew Radomicki scored 11. The storyline for the Lions was Matt Atkinson (9 points, 8 rebounds, 7 assists, 7 steals), who came very close to a quadruple-double.

"We're very excited to be in this situation," said Penncrest coach Mike Doyle, whose team has steadily improved its win total in each of his seven years at the helm.

For Ridley, it was all Cameron Gunter, who had 15 points and 10 boards. But Marc Dziadon stole the spotlight. He only made two shots the entire game --- and one of them was a running layup as time expired, sealing the Green Raiders' upset. Shawn Church tossed in 13 points.

ABOUT THE CHAMPIONSHIP ... No. 4 Ridley takes on No. 2 Penncrest for the title Tuesday night in a 7 p.m. tipoff at Harriton High. Should be a good one.

No matter how many games Penn loses, Cameron Gunter isn't budging. The senior center at Ridley, who last fall made a verbal commitment to the Quakers, has not altered his stance regardless of how poorly they have played this season.

Consider that Penn has a 1-10 record and its only win came against Maryland-Baltimore County (1-13). In a rare midseason move, the Quakers fired coach Glen Miller and hired assistant coach and former Penn standout Jerome Allen as his replacement in the interim. Despite so much turmoil, Gunter is staying put with his choice of attending Penn.

"I think I can offer some assistance, give them some help, you know?" Gunter said after Thursday's 47-38 win over Harriton. "I know with the whole coaching staff thing, that's been tough for them. I mean, getting off to a bad start and then the coach being fired, that's tough. But we'll bounce back."

The Green Raiders' schedule, beginning next week, takes on a distinct Ivy League look, with Ridley playing on back-to-back days in three straight weeks. Gunter has tickets for Penn's home game next Wednesday at the Palestra against No. 21 Temple.

For a look at Thursday's game between Harriton and Ridley, a 47-38 Ridley win, check out the Friday edition of the Daily Times. For a closer look read the following:

Ridley junior forward Norm Donkin has missed all nine of the Green Raiders’ games this winter, wearing a green cast on his right wrist. It turns out Donkin broke it in the first game of the Raiders’ football season, during which they advanced to the PIAA Class AAAA semifinals

"I jammed it the first game of the year," he said. "I took a week off and didn’t do anything with it. It started to feel better. I think I just made it worse all year by playing with it."

Donkin gets the cast off next Wednesday, at which point he’ll be reevaluated. Also missing in action for Ridley was Dan Staiber, a sophomore guard who suffered a concussion last Tuesday. He could be cleared to play early next week.

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Harriton’s Matt Fusaro shot 6-for-10 in the first half and 1-for-8 in the second half. The light-‘em-up scorer for the Rams, who also averages eight rebounds per game, is getting a serious number of Division III looks.

Fusaro tweaked his right ankle on one of the last plays of the game, coming down from a 3-point attempt on someone’s foot.

"We hope it’s nothing more than (a sprain)," Harriton coach Jesse Rappaport said. "We’ll see when we get back (to school)."

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According to Rappaport, the Rams shoot 80 percent from the free-throw line. Proficiency from the strip was the original thought for why Harriton doesn’t line anyone up on the blocks for a rebound.

Rappaport sees it differently, wanting his players to worry about setting up for a defensive stop rather than battling for a rebound "that we probably won’t get anyway, or we’ll get whistled for over the back or something."

Against Ridley, the Rams were 8-for-11 from the line.