By Pat O'Malley Sun Staff Originally published December 6, 2002 Top-ranked Archbishop Spalding and the No. 3 Annapolis boys basketball teams will be in the spotlight tomorrow at the University of Maryland's Comcast Center. Annapolis and Spalding are playing in back-to-back games in the four-game Morgan Wootten Invitational at 1:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m., respectively. Tickets are $15 at the door and $10 at the schools, with VIP tickets going for $25. Meanwhile, Dunbar High School is the site of the boys Baltimore-D.C. Challenge tomorrow. Classes for Baltimore City schools today have been canceled, as has the girls portion of the Challenge. "If [Baltimore City] school is called off [today], the girls games will not be played or rescheduled," Baltimore city athletic coordinator Bob Wade said last night. "After this week, they go into their league games and we go into ours. This is the only time we can play." Annapolis plays the first of four high school games to be played at the new Comcast Center, at 1:30 p.m. against Frederick's Thomas Johnson. The game matches the state's top two active winningest public school coaches, John Brady (534-93, .852) of Annapolis and the Patriots' Tom Dickman (569-134, .809). Dickman passed deceased Allegany coach Walter Bowers last year for the most wins by a public school coach. Bowers was 566-166 (.773) in 30 seasons at the Western Maryland high school. Thomas Johnson returns two starters in 6-foot-2 junior Thomas Richard, who averaged 17.2 points for last year's 25-2, 4A state finalist and 6-3 Luke Ledyard. "We're fortunate to get invited, and we're going to play a well-coached team," Brady said. Annapolis (25-1) is led by the All-Anne Arundel County duo of guard Laronja Owens (23.4 ppg, All-Metro) and 6-7 center Josh Johnson (19.6 ppg, 12.7 rpg, second-team All-Metro) and 6-5 junior Elliott Devoe. "It's going to be a lot of intensity up there, and I might get sidetracked or something and try to show off," Johnson said. "I just hope to have a good game in front of my friends. Spalding (28-5) plays Archbishop Molloy of New York at 3:30 p.m. The Cavaliers are led by 7-0 center Will Bowers, forwards Rudy Gay and Gus Durr and guard Jesse Brooks. "Molloy is one of the best-coached teams in the country, and they have a tremendous point guard and are not that big inside," said Spalding coach Mike Glick. "Most people would say they're going to beat us. So, we're going in as the underdog, but it's a great experience for our kids to play at the University of Maryland." WNAV (1430 AM) will broadcast the Annapolis and Spalding games on tape delay tomorrow at 5 p.m. and 9:30 p.m., respectively. Bishop O'Connell of Arlington (Va.) plays defending Class 4A champion Eleanor Roosevelt at 5 p.m. with host DeMatha meeting Magruder at 7 p.m. in the other Comcast games. Several interesting boys matchups are set for tomorrow in the Challenge, with the feature game at 5:30 p.m. pitting defending Class 3A state champion and No. 4 Douglass and defending D.C. champion Spingarn. Spingarn, led by 6-7 Babacar Thiam and 6-4 Sohi Frazier, lost last weekend's IAABO Tip-off final by 79-78 to No. 10 St. Frances. The other Baltimore-D.C. Challenge games tomorrow are: No. 6 Mervo vs. Dunbar, D.C., with their high-scoring guards Tre Kelley and Earl Risby, at 1:30 p.m., and No. 2 Lake Clifton vs. H.D. Woodson at 3:30 p.m. Host Dunbar plays Coolidge at 7:30. Sun staff writer Lem Satterfield contributed to this article. Copyright © 2002, The Baltimore Sun