Olivia Boccella (above) hit five 3-pointers as part of a 20-point outing for Lansdale Catholic. (Photo: Josh Verlin/CoBL)
By Andrew Robinson
Olivia Boccella grew up watching Archbishop Wood play at the Palestra.
As a kid, her dad Kevin and her brothers would go to the PCL championships and usually see one of Wood’s teams competing in the girls’ title game. Thanks to her best game of the season, the next time Boccella goes to the Palestra, it will be as an active participant against the Vikings program she grew up watching from the bleachers.
Boccella’s blistering bombs-away shooting led to a game-high 20 points as the junior guard helped lead top seed LC past No. 4 Archbishop Carroll 53-39 and to its first-ever PCL title game on Tuesday.
“I watched so many Wood games at the Palestra and never thought in a million years I’d be playing there,” Boccella said. “It was like pure joy in the final seconds, I don’t think we even knew what we were feeling.”