Hundreds of high school basketball teams will be crowned champions this month across the country, but there may be no sweeter story of accomplishment than that of the Learning Center for the Deaf girls team of Massachusetts.

The Learning Center squad won the New England Preparatory School Athletic Council D Conference title Sunday over Chase Collegiate of Waterbury, Conn., a school with hearing players. The Lady Ghosts became the first deaf team to not only win that league's title, but to even get to the championship game.

The Lady Ghosts finished the year 28-1, with their lone loss coming, oddly enough, to the Maryland School for the Deaf in the Eastern Schools for the Deaf Athletic Association title game. The players said, however, the win Sunday more than made up for the loss, and you'd have to believe them.