** Dighton-Rehoboth High jumping jack Chris Perry, the New England Meet champion in the triple jump at 47 feet, 6 inches, qualified the USA Track and Field Association's Junior Olympic Meet July 28-Aug. 2 at North Carolina A&T, by taking second place at the Northeast Championship Meet last week at Fitchburg State with a jump of 46-6 ...

** The Massachusetts Amateur Sports Foundation named Bishop Feehan High swimmer Kendra Cheng as one of its half-dozen winners of the 2009 Verizon Future Leaders Scholarship. Cheng is the reigning MIAA State Meet champion in the 200 individual medley and 100 butterfly, owning six Shamrock school records. She ranks in the top 10 academically of her class, is a member of the National and Math honor societies, while also serving as a geometry tutor and swimming instructor at the Franklin YMCA ...

** Here's a few reasons why Norton High senior Sean Ryan was the TVL Offensive Baseball Player of the Year, a .917 slugging percentage, 22 extra base hits among his 42. And he stole 18 bases in 19 attempts ...

** North Attleboro's Ken Effler is heading off to Oshkosh, Wisc., this weekend for the National Senior Olympic Track Meet, to be competing in five events ...

** And heading to the Boston College Football Camp in July with plenty to impress the scouts and his peers is Attleboro High fullback-linebacker Matty Campbell ... ** Steeplechaser and 800 runner, Cornell-bound Nick Wade was tabbed the MVP of the North Attleboro High boys' spring track team. Christian Pirnie was the recipient of the Rocketeer Teammate award, jumper Christian Richardson received the Unsung Hero award, while coach Derek Herber's Coaches Award went to hurdlers, middle distance runners Ryan Deeney and Ryan Doherty ...

** For the second consecutive year, former Attleboro High hoopster Cherie Parisi, a junior forward, was named the MVP of the Mt. Ida College women's basketball team and honored at the annual athletic banquet. Parisi reached the 1,000-point plateau this season. Also, North Attleboro's Tracy Koukol, a defender, was honored as the Most Improved member of the women's soccer team, in addition to being awarded with the Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) Sportsmanship Award ...

** At the Mass. Golf Association's Junior Open qualifying rounds this week, Mansfield High's Tom Grant, representing the Foxborough CC, finished first in the Junior Division field at the Hopedale CC with a round of 69, while Norton High's Peter Danko was seventh at 72. North Attleboro's Eric Marchetti, representing the Highland CC, took seventh in the Pre-Junior Division at the Plymouth CC with a round of 69, while at the Hopedale CC, Norton's Zach Schuster was fifth in the Pre-Junior Division at Hopedale with an 84 ...

** While the wins weren't many for Mark Cedorchuk's Foxboro High softball team this season, the Warriors received a banner season from senior captain Ali Valencia, who committed just two infield errors and was the club's top hitter at .397 ...

** Ditto for Peter Peloquin's Norton High softball team, who got a great season out of senior captain and second baseman Casey Remick, who hit at a .357 rate with 17 RBI and scoring 17 runs - striking out just three times ...

** Bishop Feehan High senior hoopster Ryan Sheehan, who has been lighting it up at Rick Patch's summer school of hoops, is headed off to Hoop Mountain at Stonehill College, then joining with Shamrock teammate Mike Adams, Seekonk High's Ricky Silva and North Attleboro's Danny Lang and Tyler Matte as a member of the Mass. Premier team heading to the AAU Nationals ...

** If you are thumbing through the monthly Rhode Island magazine, flip to page 53 where former AHS and URI swimming star Cherisa Friedlander is pictured for a piece on the Save The Bay, the Narragansett Bay environmental group for which she serves as an education specialist ...

** Midfielder Cam Felix was tabbed the Most Improved member of Matt Noone's Foxboro High boys' lacrosse team, while midfielder Steve Notorangelo was the Defensive Player of the Year and junior attacker Ed Noonan was the Warriors' Offensive Player of the Year. Some of the most steps taken on the improvement ladder was from sophomore Billy Roberts, who totaled 20 goals ...

** "That's what I'm hoping for, at least 10 wins considering we have three pitchers coming back who will be bigger, stronger and better," said Attleboro High baseball coach Clay Field of Bombardier hurlers Zach George, Peter Cassidy and Ryan Olmo ...

** "We didn't want to tinker with success, we didn't want to move him," related Dighton-Rehoboth High baseball coach Bill Cuthbertson of Falcon senior Frank Strazik, the No. 9 batter in the order who stroked it at a .385 rate ... ** Calling all Shamrocks. The second annual Bishop Feehan High School alumni track meet will be held July 25 at McGrath Stadium starting at 9 a.m. Former members of the Shamrock cross country and track teams are invited to participate in a range of events and distances ...

** Attleboro's Sheila McKenna and her High Fives senior women's hoop team (the oldest team in the 12-team field) won all six games at the "Not too Late" Basketball Camp in Maine. Fifty-seven women, ages 49-72, participated. McKenna is heading to Stanford University in early August for the National Senior Games, the High Fives being one of 15 teams in the 65-69 bracket ...

PETER GOBIS can be reached at 508-236-0375 or at pgobis@thesunchronicle.com.