Mohegan — The Southeastern Connecticut Chapter of the National Football Foundation and Hall of Fame will hold its annual scholar-athlete banquet at 5 p.m. Sunday, April 26, at Mohegan Sun.

Sixteen school-athletes will be honored, as well as adult award winners and special recognition award winners who will also be recognized. For information on tickets, which are $40, contact Ledyard High School football coach Jim Buonocore at (860) 464-9600 (ext. 6123) or at jbuonocore@ledyard.net.

Scholar-athletes are Nicholas Hemm (Bacon Academy), Kevin O'Sullivan (East Lyme), Cooper Robinson (Fitch), Michael Elsey (Killingly), Tyler Woods (Ledyard), Jordane Virgo (Montville), J. Hunter Roman (New London), Albert Tulli (Norwich Free Academy), Braden Beauregard (Plainfield), Stephen Sieczkowski (St. Bernard/Norwich Tech), Nathan Holliman (Stonington), Tajhay Marshall (Valley Regional/Old Lyme), John Wenc (Waterford), Michael Kandolin (Windham), Matthew Hare (Woodstock Academy), Paul Puddington (Coast Guard Academy).

Other award winners are as follows:

Person of the Year, Billy Crocker (Villanova); Coach of the Year, Tim King (Valley/Old Lyme); Retired Coach, Paul Ginter (Valley/Old Lyme); Bill Cawley Media Award, Vickie Fulkerson (The Day); Officials Award, Ken Daniewicz (Eastern Board); Distinguished American, Alex Bawza; Service Award, Jay Driscoll (Coast Guard Academy); Special Recognition Awards, Jawaun Johnson (NFA), Khaleed Exum-Strong (NFA), JoJo Shumaker (Ledyard).

Also being honored are Class S-Large state champion Valley/Old Lyme and playoff participants Ledyard, NFA, New London and Windham.

Black Wolves return home

• Fans at Mohegan Sun Arena will have the opportunity to see the new-look New England Black Wolves as the team returns home for the first time today since acquiring Andrew Suitor from Minnesota and Garrett Billings from Toronto.

The Black Wolves (4-8) take on the Vancouver Stealth (4-9) at 1 p.m. in the teams' only meeting of the year. New England won at Buffalo 12-11 last Saturday, while Vancouver has lost five straight. New England is led by Pat Saunders with 25 goals and 24 assists for 49 points. Vancouver's Duch Rhys has 31 goals and 43 assists for 74 points.

"I hope so," Black Wolves coach Blane Harrison said of whether he believes the team, last in the National Lacrosse League's East Division, will play with a sense of urgency against the Stealth. "... We consider every game from this point forward a must-win game. We're certainly going to into this weekend and hopefully build off the game we had last Saturday."