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Fun and games for Alter’s Boucher brothers
KETTERING — The game was called Interception. But a neighbor of Austin and Collin Boucher, who were about eight-years old at the time, thought an intervention might be more appropriate.
“It was a lot of one-on-one football in the backyard,” their father Richard Boucher said of the game pitting a receiver against a defender with Richard serving as the quarterback. “It was one-on-one all the way down the field until you scored, then you turned around and started over again. … I might have thrown it a little hard sometimes. One of my neighbors heard me say, ‘You have to sacrifice your body.’ He’ll never let me forget that because they were only about eight-years old. ”
Collin remembers the game well.
“We’d be falling, getting hit in the face, diving for them. My dad ran me into a fence face first one time. I dropped the ball and lost the game. It was fun,” Collin said. “One of our neighbors asked if he was trying to hurt his kids. I guess it made us more athletic, tougher. It was all in good fun. I’d like to give a little credit to him for making us better football players.”
Miami University said thank you on Wednesday, Feb. 4, too. Austin and Collin both signed national letters of intent to play for the RedHawks next season. Austin will challenge for time at quarterback and Collin at linebacker. Now that he’s a Division I quarterback, how did his dad do in those outings?
“For a back-yard quarterback I think he did just fine,” Austin said. “We’ve probably played (Interception) since I knew what a football was. We always played tackle and it was always physical. … I think I won 90 percent of the time.”
High Five
Five Knights signed scholarships Wednesday. Chris Borland (Wisconsin), Evan Neff (Ball State) and Max Plunkett (Kent State) joined the Bouchers. In addition, Danny Jasper has been invited to Ohio State asa preferred walk-on at kicker and receiver. Scott Anderson, Justin Hall and Philip Sower are undecided.
They said it
• “Definitely beating Coldwater and the state title is more rewarding (than signing today), especially for the whole team.” — center Evan Neff (Ball State).
• “I told Richard I feel like the hand of God just reached down. Two weeks before we found out about Miami, Collin was going to Southern Illinois and Austin was going to Toledo. I made peace with that. In my heart I felt one of them would transfer within the year. Then this whole Miami thing came out of midair.” — Lisa Boucher, mother of Austin and Collin.
• “He better find a girl at Wisconsin to do that for him.” Alter coach Ed Domsitz after seeing linebacker Chris Borland getting help tying his tie.
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