After getting beaten by Claude a year ago in the regional semi-finals, Sands High School girls basketball Coach Ben Connell put even a bigger premium on defense starting with the first day of practice this season.Sands connected on only about 18 percent of their shots in that game, yet wound up losing by only eight points.“If that game told me anything it was that shooting’s so undependable, but as long as you’ve got things like heart and willpower then defense is always going to be there for you,” said Connell.A year later the Mustang girls are going to the state ...