Mike Heaney needed another player.
The Souhegan High School boys basketball team was short a man for a summer league game, and Heaney wasn’t sure what he was going to do with the extra jersey.
A couple of players pointed out a kid sitting in the stands, told Heaney he was an incoming freshman and that he was also a pretty good basketball player. The coach figured why not, and started across the gym.
But before Heaney reached the stands, the kid was next to the coach, and before Heaney could ask if he wanted to play, the jersey was out of his hand and on the kid’s back.
“He scored a couple of buckets and played real tough and we thought this kid would be OK,” Heaney said of his first impressions of Brandon Len almost four years ago. “We saw the intensity and the desire, but I don’t think we ever could have imagined the ability.”
That ability helped Len, the Sabers’ senior point guard and co-captain this year, not only reach the 1,000-point plateau early this season, but in a loss to Portsmouth on Feb. 22, he became the program’s all-time leading scorer.
“It’s been a goal I’ve had since I started high school,” Len said of reaching 1,000 points.![]()
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