WORCESTER - A sequence early in the second half of last night's Leicester-Hopedale Small School final of the 65th annual Clark Tournament typified the Blue Raiders' effort from start to finish.

Mat Stevens blocked a Wolverine jumper in the paint, starting a Hopedale fast break. Two passes later, a streaking Barett Dziok barreled down the lane for an easy layup.

Good defense, unselfish play, hustle on the break.

That combination, along with game-high totals of 25 points each by Dziok and Justin Lewis, helped the Blue Raiders take control early on and build a big lead en route to a 70-49 win before a standing-room-only crowd at the Kneller Athletic Center.

Hopedale, appearing in its third Clark final in the last five years, last won in 2000. The Blue Raiders were beaten by Bromfield, 52-49, in last year's final.

"Man, winning this year feels just great," Dziok said. "We had it in our hands last year against Bromfield, but we didn't win. This year, we knew how to finish things. We stuck with our game plan and didn't get away from it. We kept running our offense, and we kept getting good shots. I had a good game, but my teammates deserve all the credit. The ball started to fall, and we were able to take over the game."

Dziok, a junior forward, was dominant, both inside and out. He canned numerous shots down low, with most coming on power putbacks and transition layups. Dziok drained three 3-pointers. He grabbed a game-high 12 rebounds, nine off the defensive boards.

Lewis, a fleet-footed sophomore forward, scored 15 of his 25 points in the first half. All of his first-half field goals came on fast-break layups or drives.

"That's the way we play, unselfish and hitting the open man or the guy ahead of you, and just finishing," Stevens said. "Our style is to play a team game, get everybody involved, don't be greedy and stay disciplined."

The Wolverines (16-5) started well and took an 11-9 lead with 11:15 to go in the first half when senior forward Josh Wells, who scored nine of Leicester's first 11 points on an array of jumpers and drives, hit a fallaway pop.

Hopedale (19-3) countered with a 15-2 spurt, giving it a 24-13 lead with 4:22 to go in the half. Lewis, Dziok and junior guard Dan Villani (10 points) had four points apiece in the run. Stevens added a long spot-up 3-pointer, the Blue Raiders' first points from the perimeter.

Moments later, a layup by Dziok gave Hopedale its largest lead of the half, 33-17. Baskets by Ralph Johnson and Wells (11 first-half points) enabled the Wolverines to close to 33-21 at intermission.

Hopedale outscored the Wolverines, 11-4, to start the second half and grab its largest lead to that point, 44-25. Leicester, behind the shooting of Wells and Johnson, bounced back with good play, using an 8-2 run to close to 46-33 with 10 minutes to go in the game.

Moments later, a jumper by Villani and a 3-pointer by Dziok upped the Blue Raiders' lead to 57-39. Hopedale maintained a healthy lead the rest of the way.

"Leicester has a great team, and we knew that this would be a tough game," Hopedale coach Tony Cordani said.

"The first thing that we had to do was try to break their press and keep it from being an up-and-down game. They're athletic and very quick, so we wanted to make it more of a half-court game, both offensively and defensively. I can't say enough about our guys, especially our seniors. We're playing well as a team and different guys are stepping up."

Wells had a standout game for the Wolverines, netting 23 points on a variety of drives and short pops. Johnson, a senior forward, came off the bench to score 14 points in 16 minutes. Senior center Tim Baril added 10 points and 7 rebounds. Only four players scored for Leicester.

"They ran the ball very well, and once they got into their zone, we didn't get good looks," Leicester coach George Albro said. "And we didn't shoot the basketball well at all. Hopedale has a very good team. They handle the ball well, they rebound, and they run the floor. But we've got the tournament to look forward to. We've got Bromfield Tuesday night. It's been a good year for us."

The Wolverines shot just 25 percent in the first half and 30 percent for the game. Leicester went 0 for 16 on 3-point attempts.

Hopedale, which shot 61 percent for the game, competes in the Central Mass. Tournament next week. Despite this, the Blue Raiders are basking in the present.

"Winning the Clark is great, and I feel awesome right now," Stevens said. "It's always been a goal of ours to come here and win one. We finally did."

WORCESTER - WORCESTER - George Albro stood and sang along to the national anthem before the Small Schools final got under way last night at the 65th annual Clark Tournament. When the game ended, he stood and briefly applauded.

In between, Albro sat and quietly watched his Leicester boys' basketball team get dismantled by top-seeded Hopedale, 70-49, before a crowd of 2,000 at the Kneller Athletic Center and thousands of viewers tuned to the regional telecast.

The Wolverines, seeded second, held a 9-3 lead three minutes into this one. Then Hopedale switched to a zone defense, and Leicester entered a no-scoring zone from which it never escaped.

"They're pretty tall and a real physical team," senior point guard Anthony Giuffrida said of Hopedale. "We really had to change our shots to get shots. They played a good zone, and we're a quick team and all, but they kept up. They beat us at our own game tonight."

Leicester had run and pressed its way through the first two rounds as it sought the school's first Clark title since 1969. The Wolverines took care of business against Nipmuc before whipping West Boylston - a team that has won 14 games - by a mind-numbing 46 points in the semifinals.

They scored 60 points in the first 16 minutes of that game, which is believed to be a tournament record. There was no chance of that happening last night as Leicester shot 30 percent.

Or, as Albro kiddingly said, "That was five percent better than the first half." And that, folks, is when the game was decided.

Albro called his first timeout with 5:13 gone after the Blue Raiders surged ahead, 13-11. He used his second with 1:45 left in the half and his team trailing, 31-17 - a result of Justin Lewis continually releasing on Leicester shots for transition baskets at the other end.

Lewis finished with 25 points. Except for three free throws, the Hopedale senior scored every one of his points on layups.

Senior forward Josh Wells once again paced the Wolverines, this time with 23 points. Believe it or not, that was actually three below his tournament average.

Although Wells hit on a respectable 11 of 24 shots, he - like his teammates - was more funk than groove. That was never more evident than when his uncontested layup rolled off the rim with 15 seconds left in the first half and Leicester down by a dozen.

HOPEDALE (70) Cole Spear 1-2 0-0 3, Justin Lewis 11-16 3-7 25, Matt Stevens 3-6 0-0 7, Barett Dziok 11-17 0-0 25, Dan Villani 4-6 2-2 10, Josh Knipe 0, Nick Brown 0, Artie Posch 0, Scott Fletcher 0-1 0-0 0, Jon Pantano 0, David Knowlton 0, Steve Dorsey 0, Kevin Binney 0-1 0-0 0, Aaron Vasquez 0. Totals: 30-49 5-9 70.

LEICESTER (49) Antyhony Giuffrida 1-9 0-0 2, Kevin Moriarty 0-3 0-0 0, Mason Poce 0-10 0-0 0, Tim Baril 2-8 6-8 10, Josh Wells 11-24 1-2 23, Jeffrey Daige 0-2 0-0 0, Colin Donahue 0-1 0-0 0, Nick Fontaine 0-1 0-0 0, Paul Natsis 0, Andrew Cuningham 0, Ralph Johnson 7-12 0-0 14. Totals: 21-70 7-10 49.

Halftime: H, 33-21. 3-point goals: Dziok 3, Spear, Stevens. Records: L 16-5, H 19-3.

WORCESTER - The uniforms all had "Hopedale" stitched on the front. On the back, the numbers might as well have all been "22."

As in too big, too strong.

The Blue Raiders fully capitalized on their size advantage while manhandling the Sutton boys' basketball team, 73-49, last night in a Small Schools semifinal as the 65th annual Clark Tournament continued at the Kneller Athletic Center.

"It's real hard (to win) when they've got size like that," junior Deryk Largesse said after the Sammies fell to 0-3 against Hopedale this winter. "(Justin) Lewis, (Barett) Dziok ... they've got some big guys out there."

The 6-foot-2 Dziok finished with 16 points, 12 coming in the first half when the issue was decided. Lewis, who's also 6-2, had 11 of his 14 points after intermission to eliminate any comeback talk in the crowd.

Hopedale placed all five starters in double figures, with Dan Villani and Mat Stevens adding 13 each and Cole Spear 12.

Largesse had 15, junior forward Pat Belniak 14 and senior guard Evan Dufault 11.

The fifth-seeded Sammies (13-7) now have a week or so off before heading into the Central Mass. Tournament. No. 1 Hopedale (18-3) will be back here at 6 p.m. Saturday to face No. 2 Leicester in the championship game.

The Blue Raiders lost to Bromfield, 52-49, a year ago in a thriller of a final. Getting back there has been a stated goal of this veteran squad.

"Last year we were a little inexperienced with only one senior, and I don't think we knew how to step up (in big games)," said Stevens, a senior guard.

That wasn't a problem last night as Hopedale shot out to a 7-0 lead and kept firing - quite successfully - until it was up, 20-3, with 9:39 to play. The Blue Raiders connected on their first six field goal attempts and 8 of their first 10, the two misses coming on a layup and a tip-in.

Sutton made it 7-3 when Belniak converted an offensive rebound into an old-fashioned three-point play. The Sammies would never be that close again.

Hopedale took off on a 13-0 run over the next three minutes, first going inside and then outside. The combination was too much for Sutton.

"The thing that really hurt us was their ability to hit perimeter shots," Sutton coach Stephen Romasco said. "We were going to defend the paint and give that up."

Cole Spear, who finished 5 of 6 from the field, hit an inside jumper before Dziok made a layup off a Spear feed. Dziok then nailed a pair of 3s - first from the left side, then the right - before Stevens capped off the outburst with a spot-up trey to make it 20-3.

"We wanted to possess the ball for the full 30 seconds and slow the game down," Romasco said. "So the last thing you want is to see a team come out and hit its first six shots."

Sutton answered with an 11-6 burst, capped by three free throws from Largesse after being fouled on a 3-point attempt that cut the deficit to 26-14 with 4:58 to go.

But Dziok finished a quick sequence that saw his forced pass into traffic bounce right back to him for an short hook underneath. The basket sent whatever momentum Sutton had fleeing onto Downing Street.

Hopedale's final eight points of the half were all due to plays in the paint as it outmuscled the slighter Sammies. It was 36-21 at the break, and the lead only grew in the second half as the Blue Raiders shot a blistering 63 percent.

Dziok has never shot well in the Clark, making just 21 of 70 attempts since his sophomore year. He was 7 for 10 last night, though, to break out of a recent slump.

"I was just taking quality shots," said Dziok, who added six rebounds and three assists. "I got good, open looks - my teammates were setting screens for me - and (Sutton) couldn't key on me because I have such good teammates."

The Blue Raiders are big, and now they hope to come up big Saturday.

HOPEDALE (73) Cole Spear 5 0 12, Justin Lewis 5 4 14, Matt Stevens 4 4 13, Barett Dziok 7 0 16, Dan Villani 5 3 13, Josh Knipe 0, Nick Brown 0, Artie Posch 0, Scott Fletcher 1 0 2, Jon Pantano 0, David Knowlton 0, Steve Dorsey 0, Kevin Binney 1 0 3. Totals: 28 11 73.

SUTTON (49) Deryk Largesse 5 3 15, Evan Dufault 4 0 11, Tim Winn 0 1 1, Brian Sampson 1 0 2, Pat Belniak 6 2 14, Jamie Dahrooge 1 0 2, Billy Tappin 0, Peter Sachs 0, John Stonebreaker 1 0 2, Conner Finlay 0, Eric Tappin 0, Steve Lachowski 0, Matt Salem 1 0 2. Totals: 19 6 49.

Halftime: H, 36-21. 3-point goals: Largesse 2, Dufault 3, Spear 2, Stevens, Dziok 2, Binney. Records: S 13-7, H 18-3.

WORCESTER - It seems every time a Lewis and a Clark get together some profound information is uncovered.

Prior to last night's Clark Tournament Small Schools quarterfinal game between top-seeded Hopedale and No. 8 Millbury, the buzz around the Kneller Athletic Center surrounded the Blue Raiders and whether they were reeling after losing the Dual Valley Conference title to Whitinsville Christian, and possibly ripe to be upset.

That theory was discredited in a hurry.

Hopedale senior Justin Lewis turned in a huge game and the Blue Raiders quieted the doubters, cruising to a 57-37 victory.

"We fell a little short in the Clark (Tournament) last year and we wanted to come out and prove to people that we were for real, even after we didn't win our league," said Lewis, the school's all-time leading scorer, who finished with a game-high 24 points.

The Woolies are 12-7 and will have a week to prepare for the Central Mass. tournament. Hopedale, which lost to Bromfield in last year's Clark final, is 17-3 and will meet No. 5 Sutton in a semifinal at 7:45 Wednesday.

The Blue Raiders beat the Sammies twice in the regular season.

Millbury jumped out to an early 7-4 lead, but Hopedale remained patient and used strong inside play to embark on an 11-0 run from which Millbury never recovered.

"We came out focused and played our tempo," Hopedale coach Tony Cordani said. "For most of our players, it's their third trip (to the Clark), so they know what to expect and how to handle themselves."

Lewis was a key factor in the first-half surge, personally outscoring Millbury, 8-0, in a 90-second stretch on a variety of baseline and back-to-the-basket moves.

The 6-foot forward had 16 points in the first half to propel Hopedale to a 29-19 lead.

You didn't really need to pore over the stat sheet to know that Hopedale controlled the boards. The Raiders' frontcourt of Lewis, Barret Dziok and Dan Villani outmuscled the smaller Woolies and Hopedale wound up with a 46-27 rebounding advantage.

Millbury cut the lead to 40-33 with about 7 minutes left, but Hopedale went on a 13-1 spurt over the next 3 to lock the win up.

Hopedale got some nice production from its bench, particularly Kevin Binney, who had five first-half points. Villani had 11 points and 16 rebounds and Dziok finished with 10 points and 10 boards.

Chase Milanese led the Woolies with 14 points.

HOPEDALE (57) Cole Spear 2 0 5, Justin Lewis 10 4 24, Matt Stevens 1 0 2, Barrett Dziok 4 1 10, Dan Villani 5 1 11, Scott Fletcher 0, Steve Dorsey 0, Kevin Binney 2 0 5. Totals: 24 6 57.

MILLBURY (37) Chase Milanese 3 6 14, Aljumaa McKenney 3 0 6, Kyle Dean 2 0 4, Neal Morrissey 4 0 11, Alain Pierre-Louis 1 0 2, Scott Elie 0, Ryan O'Donnell 0, Brett Corey 0, Carlos Sanchez 0. Totals: 13 6 37.

Halftime: H, 29-19. 3-point goals: Morrissey 3, Milanese 2, Spear, Dziok, Binney. Records: H 17-3, M 12-7.

Like Cape Horn, Kelley Square and the Playboy Mansion, this year's Clark Tournament looks to be fraught with danger.

The draw was unveiled for the 65th edition of the Clark last night at the university that bears its name, and while there are a number of new faces in the field of 16, there are no pushovers.

Sure there are favorites - Groton-Dunstable in the Large Schools and Hopedale in the Small Schools - but don't expect any of the other entries to play scared when the quarterfinals tip off Feb. 15-16.

"I think the field is very balanced, and I think (tournament committee president) Brad (Monroe's) point is well taken," Sutton coach Stephen Romasco said. "You can win from the final spot."

Monroe noted at least one Clark title has been won by every seed except the No. 8 since 1997. And that year, eighth-seeded Grafton lost in the final.

The crazy 8s this year are Nashoba (Large) and Millbury (Small).

Nashoba is making its first Clark appearance since 1988 when it was on an absolute roll, having qualified for the fourth time in five years. The Chieftains won a total of 10 games in coach John Pepi's first three seasons, but are 8-6 this year.

Nashoba starts five seniors and is led by the duo of Eric Winters and Chris Ward, who is averaging 15 points for the season but has hit the mid-20s in three of his last four games.

The Chieftains will face Groton-Dunstable, which is looking to become the first team to win consecutive Large School titles since Westboro in 1994-95. The Crusaders are 15-0 with wins over St. John's and second-seeded Oakmont.

After losing in last year's Small Schools final to Bromfield, Hopedale brings back a veteran and talented team led by seniors Justin Lewis, Mat Stevens, Barett Dziok and Kevin Binney. Lewis is the linchpin and leads the Dual Valley Conference in scoring with at 19.2 points per game.

The Blue Raiders aren't overly familiar with their first-round opponent, but they certainly will recognize Millbury. The two met in last year's Central Mass. Tournament with Hopedale winning, 64-45.

"We know we're in for a battle," Millbury coach Dick Bergin said. "They've got great size and are a good passing team. But we played them last year, and we can build from that."

The Woolies are 9-6, having ended a nine-year dry spell while qualifying for their 45th Clark Tournament. This continues an amazing run for Millbury, which reached the Division 3 state final in baseball in June and won the Division 2A Super Bowl in December.

"The whole school has kind of adopted a winning attitude," said Bergin, who is in his fourth season as coach. "I think the success of the football and baseball teams raised expectations, but it's not the same nucleus of kids. It's a different group in each sport."

The lone crossovers are Chase Milanese (football) and Kyle Dean (baseball).

On offense, Millbury is led by the frontcourt trio of 6-foot-3 seniors Alain Pierre-Louis and Milanese, and 6-1 sophomore Neal Morrissey. All three are averaging 12 points.

"We're pretty balanced scoring," Bergin said. "But all three kids are capable of going for 20 points on a given night."

Milanese, a three-year starter who has drawn the attention of Fitchburg State and Nichols, has seen his scoring average - but not his game - dip this winter.

"He averaged 18 a game last year," Bergin said. "His points are down, but I think the points are down because he's got a better team around him."

Juniors Dean and Al McKenney form the starting backcourt. Brett Grey, Ryan O'Donnell and Scott Elie give Millbury a nice mix of offense and defense off the bench.

The Woolies have lost their last three games, but feel they've regrouped in time for the Clark. They had better be right because there's no room in this year's field for slipping up.

The 65th Clark Tournament takes place next month and it's shaping up to be a doozy.

Forty-one teams are eligible for the 16 spots, which seem certain to include Groton-Dunstable, Oakmont, Oxford, Hopedale and Leicester.

Nashoba, which last qualified in 1988, and Millbury, which has 44 Clark appearances but none since '95, are also off to good starts. Sutton is 6-3 as it seeks to extend its streak to a current-best 15 straight Clarks.

In the past, a team was limited to playing 17 games during the regular season if it wanted to be eligible for the Clark Tournament. Thanks to some nifty thinking by the Clark brass, schools can now play 18 games.

The argument presented to the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association was the cut-off date for seeding the Central Mass. Tournament traditionally occurs the day before the Clark finals. That means any teams in the finals would have only played a maximum of 19 games to that point, or one less than the MIAA limit.

The MIAA agreed with the thinking, and we applaud it for that.

Here's an idea worth mulling: How about taking the next step and allowing every team in the state a free pass to play in one tournament of its choosing each season. A team would be limited to three games in that tournament, but still allowed to play 20 games during the regular season.

Yes, we know the 20-game limit is in effect for most sports, but basketball is unique in that it has a pair of vacation weeks (Christmas, February) during its season when these added games could be played.

The matchup possibilities are endless. Imagine a DVC/Mid-Wach Challenge of Hopedale, Whitinsville Christian, Groton-Dunstable and Oakmont this year. Or last season's four Division 1 state semifinalists meeting.

In other Clark news, tournament chairman Brad Monroe announced WCTR TV-3 will return to broadcast the semifinals and finals. Things went well during last year's one-year trial and Monroe said TV didn't seem to adversely affect the gate.

What television did do was afford a number of fans, many of them senior citizens, a chance to watch a tournament they would otherwise have not attended anyway.

There was a question prior to the broadcasts of how the players (and coaches) would act once the cameras were turned on. In one less-than-memorable incident, a player made a slashing gesture right into the lens after hitting the go-ahead basket late in the game.

But for the most part, everyone stuck to playing basketball and not playing to the camera.

"The kids need to keep their focus and realize they're not professional or college players," Monroe reminded.

Monroe said three Clark University freshmen will be honored with $1,000 scholarships during this year's tournament. They are: Vanessa Brink of Dudley and Shepherd Hill, Courtney Proctor of Lunenburg, and Courtney Weed of Upton and Nipmuc.

It's worth noting any school eligible for the Clark - and not just those that qualify for the tournament - is entitled to submit students names for the scholarships.

SUTTON- The road to the Dual Valley Conference championship usually travels through Sutton. After last night's stunning, 52-32 drubbing of the Sammies, however, that road has taken a detour through Hopedale.

"The kids were a little bit inspired, which was good to see, coming off that loss to Blackstone-Millville Regional last week," said Hopedale coach Tony Cordani, whose team - ranked No. 4 - hosts 15-2 Whitinsville Christian on Thursday for the DVC title.

Justin Lewis led the Blue Raiders with a game-high 29 points, many of them fast breaks and layups off steals. Barret Dziok added 9 points. Tim Winn led Sutton with 14 points, all but one coming in the second half.

"This was a huge game," Cordani said. "Sutton is a very talented team. We can't afford to look past anybody."

Hopedale is 15-2 overall, but 10-1 in the DVC, 1½ games behind the Crusaders, who are 11-1 after last night's win over Douglas. The Blue Raiders defeated Whitinsville Christian earlier this season.

"We were manhandled," said a disappointed Sutton coach Steve Romasco, who watched his team fall to 10-6 overall, 7-5 in the DVC.

Romasco said he can't remember his team ever being held to 32 points.

"We knew pretty much what they were going to do, but we were unable to stop them," Romasco said. "We weren't able to respond. They had more physical strength at every position. We were outmuscled. We've got to be able to become more physical.

"We were speechless," Romasco said of the mood inside the locker room after the game. "We talked a lot, but we didn't say much."

Hopedale led at the half, 25-15, and opened the second half with a 21-6 run. Better than half of the Blue Raiders' baskets came off steals and on the fast break.

Kevin Binney's short jumper 21 seconds into the second half increased Hopedale's lead to 27-15. After a steal and layup by Lewis made it 29-15, Sutton shaved the deficit to 29-17 on a layup by Pat Belniak.

The Lewis show continued as the senior sank a pair of free throws and scored back-to-back layups to boost Hopedale's lead to 35-17. Winn, who scored 13 of his team's 17 second-half points, stopped the bleeding with a pair of free throws to cut it to 35-19 with 11:53 to go.

Lewis didn't have 15 layups by himself. It only seemed that way.

"One guy had 15 layups," Romasco said in disbelief. "That certainly wasn't in our game plan. (Hopedale) is a good team. They played really well."

But two more free throws after an intentional foul on Mat Stevens, who was about to score on a layuyp, and a baseline 3-pointer by Dziok gave Hopedale a commanding 40-19 lead with 11:25 to go.

A field goal by Winn sliced the Blue Raiders' lead to 40-21 with 11 minutes to go, but two free throws by Lewis, a baseline jumper by Cole Spear and another bucket by Lewis gave the visitors an insurmountable, 46-21 advantage with 8:45 to go.

"We knew we had to come out and play in the second half," Cordani said. "We had a big lead similar to this one against BMR and we lost. It was definitely important to come out and continue to play with the intensity we had in the first half."

In Hopedale, the boys' basketball team lost a big part of its team, but still remains in the driver's seat of the highly competitive Dual Valley Conference.

With Sutton and Nipmuc in the hunt for the title seemingly every year, and with the emergence of Whitinville Christian, the DVC has become a four-team race. On Tuesday night, the Raiders knocked off the Crusaders, 65-62, to take sole possession of first place. The team is off to a 10-1 start, despite the loss of a key player from last year's squad, Kevin Nee, who led the team in rebounding and was second in scoring.

What the Raiders did not lose was their solid core. Leading scorer Justin Lewis is back and after scoring the 1,000th point of his career earlier in the season has scored early and often, averaging right around 20 points per game. Around him, three other seniors have taken on the scoring load and have made for a veteran team that knows how to win the close games.

"Some of our seniors have really started to take on some of the leadership," coach Tony Cordani said. "We're going to go as far as our seniors take us."

Aside from Lewis, the Raiders start two other seniors, point guard Mat Stevens and forward Barrett Dziok. Stevens has really blossomed into more of a scorer this season, after averaging just 9 points per game last year. Dziok, a 6-4 forward, takes up space underneath, but can also step out and shoot from beyond the three-point line. Six-four center Dan Villani helps Dziok shut down opposing big men, and controls the offensive and defensive glass. Kevin Binney, a fourth senior, is the team's sixth man and can play guard or forward.

Sophomore shooting guard Cole Spear has been the big surprise so far, chipping in on both offense and defense. The 6-3 Spear can hit outside shots and combines with Stevens to take some of the offensive pressure off Lewis.

"They (opponents) do a good job of taking Lewis out of the offense at times, so we need other guys who can step in and do some of the scoring," Cordani said.

The hot start has gotten the Raiders a head start on this year, but they know they will have to go through every team in the DVC one more time. To go even further this year, they will depend on learning from their experiences last season, when they went 20-2 before losing to Bromfield in the Division 3 final.

"We just work hard and play together," Lewis said. "The leadership really prevails. We've been there before."