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NB Lacrosse Focuses on Unity, Upcoming Season
An impressive finish last season puts hopes high for North Branford girls' varsity lacrosse.
The girls' lacrosse team started last season dropping its first five games. Not the way any team wants to start. However, a team meeting brought the team back together, propelling the Thunderbirds to 10 wins and catapulting them to Shoreline Conference champs. The team went on to lose to in the quarterfinals of the CIAC Division II state tournament.
That loss still puts an awkward look on the faces of the team's seniors. Maybe it still stings, maybe they think it should have been their game for the taking. No matter.
This season is different. Coach Lori Connelly, in her seventh year as the Thunderbirds' lacrosse coach, knows that the five juniors who experienced last year's trials and tribulations are now seniors with something to prove.
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"They are the epitome of what leaders should be," said Connelly. "I put a lot of responsibility on them and they never complain they just do it. They've bought in to the new things I'm trying to sell as a coach and they turn around and work on it with the rest of the team."
The Thunderbirds open their 2011 campaign at home against , April 9 at noon. The team has two meetings with rival Haddam-Killingworth; at HK on April 19 and at home on May 5.
