It was the final chapter of the high school season and it was probably only fitting that Waterford High School was involved.
The Lancers had a terrific 2006-07 high school sports year which only left one wishing that they could have won a state championship somewhere.
Four state championship games, four runner-up finishes which should not blemish the fact that the Lancers got to the boys and girls basketball, baseball and softball finals.
Softball had the last chance Sunday but Bristol Eastern wasn't about to let their first state title since 1997 slip away as they shut out the Lancers 3-0.
Waterford had a terrific opportunity, bases loaded, no one out, in the bottom of the fifth but Bristol Eastern pitcher Sara Plourde got a pair of strikeouts and a ground out to end the threat as Waterford came up empty.
"We had girls in scoring position and we couldn't get them in, that's what it comes down to," Waterford coach Kate Peruzzotti said.
"Could we have done anything different? I don't know, hindsight is 20/20, I don't know what we would have done differently. It's about putting the ball in play and we weren't able to do that (Sunday)," she added.
"I think it would have made all the difference," Waterford senior catcher Anna Levesque said. "We're a team when we score that we run with it, we didn't do it (Sunday)."
But all agreed on one thing, it was a great run, even an improbable one, just to get to the championship game.