Two broadcast journalism seniors won awards during the Mark of Excellence awards ceremony at the Society of Professional Journalists Region 1 conference held on Saturday, April 26, in Portland, Maine.

Kyle Andrukiewicz won first place in the sports reporting category for his in-depth TV piece on the Cheshire girls' swim team. The team holds the national record for the longest win-streak for dual meets. Because he won first place, Andrukiewicz's entry now advances to the national competition, which will be held in Atlanta in September.

Gregory Clary received a third place award in the sports reporting category for his in-depth piece "Curling," which is about an elderly woman's love of the sport.

The students' stories aired on QNN, the weekly curriculum-based television newscast. The stories were done in Bill Schwanbeck's TV Reporting class in the Fall 2007 semester.