One final thing about this girls basketball season.

This truly was a benchmark season in many ways for the public school and the private school teams. For the first time in as long as I can remember, the Baltimore-area teams really outmatched their Washington counterparts in the postseason.

I can rest my case on these two examples: No. 1 Seton Keough defeated The Washington Post’s No. 1 team, Riverdale Baptist, to win the first ESPN RISE National High School Invitational on Sunday and No. 4 Fallston defeated The Post’s No. 3 team, Paint Branch, to win the state Class 3A championship last month.

In addition No. 7 Digital Harbor beat Surrattsville for the state Class 1A title. Seton Keough, the Interscholastic Athletic Association of Maryland A Conference champ, beat another Washington-area team, Elizabeth Seton, becoming the first team from Baltimore to win the Bishop Walsh Girls Invitational Tournament, a girls' version of the boys' Alhambra Tournament for Catholic school teams.

It was a big year for the local girls at the state tournament as Fallston, Digital Harbor and City, the Class 2A champ, gave Baltimore-area teams three of the four girls state championships for the first time since Western, Hammond and Wilde Lake won in 1995.

Eleanor Roosevelt, No. 2 in The Post, did take the state Class 4A title after beating Arundel in the semifinal, but that was the only Washington-area school’s victory of these six most prestigious titles.

It was nice to see so many of the local girls do so well. This has been a girls basketball season no one will soon forget.