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Last year's record: 4-13-1

Coach: Manny Lopes (2nd year)

Returning starters: Tess Salabella, Sr. back; Becca Fanning, Sr. back; Erika Giovanniello, Sr. midfield; Elita Nicholson, Sr. midfield; Jessica Cote, Sr. midfield; Kayla Jernigan, Sr. forward; Melissa McFayden, Sr. midfield; Lizzy Fanning, Soph. back; Stephanie Sutherby, Soph. back; Lia Webb, Soph. goalie.

IPSWICH | Every Cape Ann League team on the Ipswich High football schedule will be paying close attention to the Tigers this season.

Every team that plays them will also be going for the jugular.

It's human nature. Ipswich lost virtually everyone from an 11-2 team that won the Division 3A Super Bowl last season; 43 of the 55 players this year are either freshmen or sophomores.

Last year's record: 11-5-6

Coach: Rick Storer (12th season)

Returning players: Paul VanSchyndel, Sr., Def; Ben Lane, Sr., Mid; Zach Hathaway, So., Mid; Jack Goldsworthy, Jr., Def; Mike Krathwohl, Sr., Mid; Peter McGrath, Sr., Def; Nick Grim, Jr., Mid.

Last year's record: 16-1-5 (lost to Watertown 3-0 in Div. 2 North Final)

Coach: Diane Mayo (5th year)

Returning starters: Chelsey Macklin, Alicia Didio, Lyndsay French, Kati McKinney, Ruthie Cleary.

Every year is different. Each team starts from square one at the beginning of a new season, but it's always difficult to forget past glory.

In 2006, the Ipswich field hockey team completed the regular season undefeated (14-0-5) and won its second straight Cape Ann League Small title in the process. The Tigers also won two games in the Division 2 tournament before falling to powerful Watertown, 3-0, in the semifinals.

IPSWICH | No flash, just efficiency.

The Ipswich High School football team has kept it simple through the first three weeks, and the results have been pouring in against established programs.

North Andover was the Tigers' latest victim, succumbing to the strong defense and deliberate offense in a 20-0 whitewashing last night.

ACTON | The look on Ted Flaherty's face spoke volumes. With beads of sweat rolling down his forehead, the second-year Ipswich High football coach stood on Edward M. Leary Field last night with a wide grin following his team's impressive 34-0 victory over Manchester Essex in the Eastern Mass. Division 3A semifinals.

QUINCY | Ipswich High didn't play a perfect football game Saturday, yet the Tigers earned the perfect ending.

When you've just won your first Super Bowl championship in 14 years, there's no quibbling about how you got it done; you're just overjoyed that you came out on top.

HAMILTON | It's impossible to overstate how much it means to a team to be on the verge of winning a championship, and then to have potential disaster lurking around the corner.

Ipswich High was in that precarious position yesterday against a remarkably resilient and fired-up Hamilton-Wenham team. The Tigers were five seconds away from a victory that would have propelled them to the postseason. They were also five seconds away from an upset loss that would've soured their entire season.