Shockingly, the Tri-Nine Conference is done in the NCHSAA playoffs before Thursday's East Regional thanks to losses by Cary, Holly Springs and Panther Creek. Now it's time to look back at the year gone by.

Below are each Tri-Nine team's final overall record, plus a full list of the Tri-Nine Confenence champions with a quote from each. The conference champion wrestlers will get their chance to compete in next week's regional tournament.

Lee County won Friday's Tri-Nine Conference gymnastics meet while Athens Drive sophomore Alyssa Tucker took home individual all-around honors. Click "Read More" to view the rest of the scores posted.

Here are the team results for the Tri-Nine boys and girls swimming & diving championships, held Saturday night at the Michael Curran Aquatic Center in Cary.

Greater Neuse leaders East Wake and Southeast Raleigh play tonight in girls basketball. Millbrook and Enloe share Cap Eight lead. Green Hope tops Tri-Nine.

Wakefield, Broughton and Enloe share Cap Seven boys basketball lead. Garner and Middle Creek lead Greater Neuse and Tri-Nine 4-A.

Click "Read More" to see who the Tri-Nine offensive, defensive and special team players of the year are, as well as the coach of the year and first and second teams.

Hopefully you've seen my boys and girls basketball previews today.

As you may be accustomed to by now, I rank all of our area basketball teams every week. The first ranking will be the first Sunday in December. This year we add Grace Christian and make it 11 teams (eight public, three private).

Here are my preseason rankings for both boys and girls basketball, with how I think they'll do in their respective leagues. I also added other winter sports at the end.

Tri-Nine Coach of the Year:  James Mountford, Fuquay-Varina
Tri-Nine Co-Players of the Year: David Sizemore (senior), Fuquay-Varina and Cooper Vandermaas-Peeler (senior), Athens Drive

Tri-Nine First Team All-Conference:

The Tri-Nine all-conference volleyball teams were released, and it should be of no surprise that undefeated state champion Apex took home a number of honors. The Cougars swept the coach and player of the year awards and placed two more on the first team.

Upperclassmen became the theme of this year's list as all but six selections were seniors.

Here are the final regular-season standings in boys soccer from the Tri-Nine Conference, plus the unofficial first-round playoff match-ups for the five automatic bids.