The countdown has reached one. After a long, hot, often wet summer, high school sports returns tomorrow. What normally would be a mundane Monday will see football, soccer, cross country, golf and volleyball teams across the Mountain and Buckeye states begin preparations for the upcoming season. Naturally, the majority of the focus will be on football, the sport that must foot the bills so all the others can exist. While it is, to steal the name of the 5:30 a.m. television show I watch every day — Way Too Early — to arrive at any definite conclusions, Mid-Ohio Valley sports fans have every right to be optimistic this fall. Start in Wood County, where fans are used to all four schools making the state playoffs. That once again looks like a distinct possibility. Williamstown — as it always is — will be one of the preseason favorites in Class A along with the other perennial powers, Wheeling Central and Madonn.