Boiselle a leader for LHS boys’ basketball

BY RICH FISHER

When Michael Boiselle went out to work on his jump shot last summer, he needed someone to rebound for him.

Who better than the person who taught him the game of basketball in his formative years—his mom, Ortha Allen.

“She was a good player,” Lawrence coach Jeff Molinelli said of the 2002 LHS graduate. He added with a laugh “She’s better than him!”

Boiselle didn’t deny that, but did say, “I still play her sometimes, it’s not a tough match-up anymore. I can beat her now.”

He probably beats her because of what he learned from Ortha as a kid. “She brought me into the game of basketball, she introduced me to it,” Boiselle said.

“I actually started playing basketball in second grade but never played on a team,” he added. “She used to take me to the court, let me shoot around, just give me the ball. I used to play her for fun in one-on-one in third grade. That’s when I really started to get into it,

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