With the close of a turn-around season, after two years of a losing record, Castle View High School football’s roster earned accolades for 16 of its players among the 2009 All-Foothills League recipients.

With two tie breakers in front of them coming out of pool play, Ponderosa volleyball all of a sudden became the underdogs of the Class 5A state championship tournament.

Castle View, Chaparral, Mountain Vista and Rock Canyon are done for the season in their respective playoff battles after Week 11 of high school football. ThunderRidge plugs on to the Class 5A state championship quarterfinals, and Valor Christian remains undefeated in the Class 3A showdown.

In a season in which the Rock Canyon boys soccer team wasn’t even expected to make the Class 4A playoffs, the Jaguars made the championship finals and didn’t go home until an overtime goal ended everything.