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Center Court Rewind: In 1995 and ’96, the Cony girls spent two years on a mission
After being denied by Lawrence, the Rams got their shot and took the state by storm.
Paul Vachon had to laugh.
The topic was his Cony girls basketball teams from 1994-95 and 95-96, the question was whether he and his players could detect the animosity from the crowds in front of which they played, and Vachon chuckled as if he can still hear the noise.
“That’s an understatement,” he said. “Did I sense it? Oh my God, did I sense it. And what we would do is basically say ‘girls, let’s just play. They don’t know what we’ve gone through. They don’t know the hard practices we’ve had. They don’t know the pressure we’ve been under.