MILFORD - Everyone was searching their memory banks last Saturday night, trying to remember the last time a Foran volleyball team reached the semifinals of a state tournament.

MILFORD - There were no visions of vicious RHAM hitters or precise setters in the minds of the Jonathan Law volleyball players as they went into attack mode against Woodland Regional in a Class M quarterfinal game last Friday night.

Everyone wants to be a champion. Better yet everyone wants to have a chance to be a champion, and therefore the first step is qualifying for the playoffs.

WEST HAVEN - After two failed attempts to play on Senior Night at Ken Strong Stadium due to poor weather conditions, the Westies finally got a chance to honor the seniors Sunday afternoon.

The Notre Dame-West Haven football team took care of business in a 38-0 victory over Amity in a Southern Connecticut Conference Division I clash at wind-swept Veteran's Stadium last Friday night in West Haven.

MILFORD - Back on Sept. 25, the Foran football team eked out a thrilling 21-20 victory over Guilford by blocking an extra-point kick.

For the past five weeks, the Jonathan Law football team has played well above par. If all of them were golfers, they wouldn't have broken 100.

The West Haven volleyball team is accustomed to making comebacks. After starting the season with three straight losses and one win in its first seven matches, West Haven came back to qualify for the postseason with a 9-9 record.

Staples-Westport is known as the "Wreckers" and they certainly lived up to their name in wrecking the Amity boys soccer team's hopes of advancing to the CIAC Class LL finals.

The season has come to a crushing end for the Notre Dame-West Haven soccer team.

The inconsistent play of the Notre Dame soccer team clearly cost the team a home game in the CIAC Class L state tournament. That lack of steady play pointed the Green Knights in the direction of Wethersfield to open the tournament.

The season has come to a bitter end for the West Haven girls soccer team.

NORTH HAVEN - She may be the third killer in a trio of deadly Law volleyball assassins, but junior Meaghan Abbott has the mental toughness to match anyone on her team.

Believe it or not, this is a column a dozen years in the making. In 1997, in what seems like a different lifetime, West Haven fell to Cheshire in the Class LL semifinals after having a touchdown called back to a holding penalty.

MILFORD - Friday night at Vito DeVito Field in Milford clearly spelled the difference between Division I and Division II play in the Southern Connecticut Conference.

A change in race tactics proved to be the key to the Amity boys cross country team placing third at last week's State Open, which was held at Wickham Park in Manchester.

The West Haven boys soccer team will have plenty of time to play the what-if game.

WOODBRIDGE - William Steiner may have become Fairfield Prep's starting goalkeeper because of an injury, but he is the major reason why the Jesuits advanced to the Southern Connecticut Conference boys soccer championship game.

Coming into last Friday night's Southern Connecticut Conference Division I football game against Shelton, Amity coach Mike DeVito knew that the Gaels had one of the most prolific offenses in the SCC, averaging almost 35 points a game.

It was another week and another less-than-stellar effort from the Jonathan Law football team.

WALLINGFORD - The 2009 season has not been kind to the Lyman Hall girls soccer team. Despite playing well at times, the Trojans had posted only two wins heading into the season finale against Jonathan Law.