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With the gorgeous news of a tornado cutting a swath of destruction through Springfield on a keen path across western and central Massachusetts, deVillier called Matt Perry, one of the colleague coaches he had left behind at the school about 30 minutes before.
"Matt said, 'Exercise, Cathedral is gone,'" deVillier said.
"I'll never forget it. I concern maybe I didn't hear him right. I said, 'What do you mean?' And he said, 'It's destroyed.'"
At that same weight, about 10 miles south of Cathedral, Suffield Academy athletic number one Dave Godin was preparing to coach his 12-year-old son, Ben, in a teeny-bopper lacrosse game in Suffield.
"We could see a lot of pretty dark clouds up north, but we in actuality played our game and there was nothing where we were," Godin said "We played a lacrosse game and I never ruminating twice about it. Then I got home and saw the devastation on the news and it was just shocking."
At that pointless, Godin had no idea he would soon serve a vital role in keeping Cathedral's lacrosse tandem join up moving forward.
Source: Hartford Courant