The steady cold rain was the big story and annoyance of the 6D North Region championship football game, with those elements working to each team's advantage and momentum in similar ways during different halves of the Nov. 24 high-school contest.

The rivalry is short lived but meaningful between the Madison Warhawks and Westfield Bulldogs.

The host Madison Warhawks lost to the Westfield Bulldogs, 31-13, on Nov. 26 in a 6A North Region Tournament semifinal high school football game.

Pat Deegan, the former girls head basketball coach at Vienna’s Madison and Arlington’s Bishop O’Connell high schools, won his 700th career game on Nov. 29 when the Fairfax Rebels defeated the Annandale Atoms, 49-30.

A couple of long second-half scoring plays, one on defense and the other on offense, broke open a one-point game and helped the Westfield Bulldogs to a 31-13 road victory over the Madison Warhawks in a 6A North Region Tournament semifinal football playoff game Nov. 26 in Vienna.

At last, 16 years after one school opened and decades after the other began classes, the Madison Warhawks and Westfield Bulldogs will meet in a high school football game for the first time.