By John Goralski Sports Writer Some might say that the Lady Knights were so angry about losing to Shelton in the 1985 state finals that they chased them across the northeast just to get a rematch. Still smarting from the overtime loss that ended the 85 winter season, the Southington girls jumped on a bus, traveled to a small gym in upstate New York, and battled the Shelton team over and over during a summer sports camp at the US Military Academy in West Point, NY. “I can still remember going at it with them over the whole week,” said former Lady Knight co-captain Maureen Forgione-Barmore. “We felt like we should have won the year before, so I think we were just trying to find out who we were. We really had to think about who we were as a team, what was going to work, and we had to work even harder to beat them. It became a little bit of a rivalry.” Nobody could have predicted that the Knights were on the cusp of something special. After all, the team had just graduated a senior tandem that accounted for more than half of the scoring and most of [...]
By John Goralski Sports Writer Some might say that the Lady Knights were so angry about losing to Shelton in the 1985 state finals that they chased them across the northeast just to get a rematch. Still smarting from the overtime loss that ended the 85 winter season, the Southington girls jumped on a bus, traveled to a small gym in upstate New York, and battled the Shelton team over and over during a summer sports camp at the US Military Academy in West Point, NY. “I can still remember going at it with them over the whole week,” said former Lady Knight co-captain Maureen Forgione-Barmore. “We felt like we should have won the year before, so I think we were just trying to find out who we were. We really had to think about who we were as a team, what was going to work, and we had to work even harder to beat them. It became a little bit of a rivalry.” Nobody could have predicted that the Knights were on the cusp of something special. After all, the team had just graduated a senior tandem that accounted for more than half of the scoring and most of [...]