There’s no punching in basketball.

The Belvoir Barracudas’ 11U boys’ basketball team suffered its only loss of the season to Chantilly, 55-51, during the Fairfax County Youth Basketball League championship Saturday at Luther Jackson Middle School in Falls Church.

The 85 lb. Central Belvoir Bulldogs football team had a flawless season, capping off an undefeated regular season with a championship to boot.

A game that began as a potential rout ended with a hard-fought win for Headquarters Battalion, as the team defeated Pentagon for the intramural basketball Commander’s Cup trophy.

Volleyball welcomed the spring intramural sports season at Wells Field House Monday with 12 teams in action for the first games of the season.

Briefs

The Winter Olympics are finally over, and the sports world has immediately been thrust back into its regular, late-winter sports routine - prepping for baseball season, gearing up for the NCAA basketball tournament and watching the last dredges of the NFL combine slip away.

Richard Herman has always had a penchant for coaching youth sports.

As part of his two-day visit to Belvoir, Rabbi Niles Goldstein led a martial arts demonstration and lecture at Wells Field House Wednesday.

Former U.S. Army World Class Athlete Program bobsledder Steven Holcomb ended Team USA’s 62-year gold medal drought in Olympic bobsleigh competition by driving Justin Olsen, Steve Mesler and Curtis Tomasevicz to victory in the four-man event Saturday at Whistler Sliding Centre in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada.