The Saranac Chiefs celebrate after getting there first win of the season in overtime and heading to the championship. It would be Week 8 of the Champlain Valley Atheltic Conference season and Semi-Finals of Class C pitting #2 Ausable Valley Patriots and #3 Saranac Chiefs. It would be an evenly matched game through the great equalizer the rain there would be no score after the first quarter. The Saranac Chiefs would take a 6-0 lead into the half on a QB sneak by Johnny Maye with 5 minutes left in the half. In the third quarter with 8 minutes left the Ausable Valley Patriots would tie the game up at 6 on a Tyler Atkins run. The game would remain there through regulation. They would go into overtime tied at six. In that over time, the Chiefs would score on a short run by Johnny Devins on there first possession to secure the win and advance to the Class C finals against the Saranac Lake Red Strom. Gallery.

Ticonderoga's Trevor Parent (18) runs the ball up the middle breaking tackles for the first down. It would be the second week of the Champlain Valley Athletic Conference football season and it would feature the Ausable Valley Patriots and the Ticonderoga Sentenials. It would be a match up to very evenly matched teams in a contest that would come down to what team could push it across first. The lone score of the game would come with 7:26 left in the fourth quarter when Justyn Granger would break through the line four the nine-yard score. In the winning effort, the Ticonderoga Sentinels would improve to 2-0 while the Ausable Valley Patriots would fall to 0-2 on the season. Gallery.

Plattsburgh's Jason Moore (4) with the catch in stride for the big gain along the sidelines. It would be the opening night of the Champlain Valley football season as the Plattsburgh Hornets would host the Saranac Chiefs. The Hornets would get the first score of the game on a 2 yard run by Brady Pennington to make it 6-0 at the 7:30 mark . The Hornets would extend there lead to 12-0 a 31-yard interception return Harney just 38 seconds later. The Hornets would extend there lead to 18-0 on a 33-yard touchdown reception by Ben Champagne and take that 18-0 lead into the intermission. The game would stay there till 36 seconds of the fourth quarter when Mitch Senecal would score on the QB sneak to make it 25-0 Hornets. Then in the closing minutes of the game, Jason Moore would score on a 52-yard bomb to secure the 33-0 victory. In the winning effort, the Hornets would break a 29 game losing streak and start the season at 1-0 as the Saranac Chiefs fall to 0-1 to start the season. Gallery.

Thr Au Sable Valley Patriots are crowned the 2015 Section VII Class C champions. It would be the Saranac Lake Red Storm and the Au Sable Valley Patriots for the Section VII Class Championships. The Red Storm would get the early lead in the first quarter at 7-0. Then in the second quarter they would extend the lead to 13-0. Although when the teams would come back the Patriots would make there present know as they would score in the third to make it 13-7. Then midway through the fourth quarter they would tie the game up at 13. Then with under two minutes remaining the Patriots would score the eventual game winning touchdown to secure the 20-13 victory. With the Patriots move on the New York State Playoffs where they will get the Gouvenour Wildcats in the first round. Gallery.

Plattsburgh's (34) with the stiff arm on Ausable Valley defender as he goes around the end going for the first down. It would be week four the Champlain Valley Athletic Conference football season and this week we would feature the Plattsburgh Hornets and the Ausable Valley Patriots in action. The Patriots would take the 7-0 lead midway through the first quarter in the short run. The game would stay there all the way till the fourth quarter when the Patriots would extend the lead to 13-0 on the touchdown pass to (14). Then with 5 minutes left in the game, the Hornets would get on the board with the touchdown pass to (84) to cut the deficit in half at 13-7. With the win, the Patriots go to 2-2 as they head into the off week. As for the Hornets, they will fall to 0-4 on the season and will be headed to Peru next week to take on the Indians. Gallery.

The Saranac Lake Red Storm poses for there team photo as they as they are crowned the 2014 Section 7 Class C Champions. The #1 Saranac Lake Red Storm would meet up with the #3 Ausable Valley Patriots in the Section 7 Football championships. The Red Storm would make easy work of the Patriots in the first half and take a 35-7 lead into the locker room. In the second half, the Patriots would try there best to make a game of it but the deficit would be too big to overcome they would win the half at 16-7 but would fall 42-23. With the win, the Red Storm head into the New York State Class C Playoffs against Ogdensburg while the Patriots season comes to an end at 2-7. Gallery