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Mullen and Lavanchy

   Anyone else walking out of the Elm Street School after a hard-fought basketball game the evening of Saturday, January 23, probably would have been pretty frustrated.
   That was the night that the Mavericks of the Walpole Youth Basketball Association dropped to 2-4 a third of the way through the season after losing a 59-53 decision to the Wizards.
   Coach Bruce Cameron’s band of high school athletes, which include sons Brian and Nate, had just been barely beaten for the fourth time, and were buried in the bottom of the league. Making the season even more frustrating for the Mavericks was that the four losses came by a combined 12 points, making an earlier 81-57 victory seem almost pointless in a way.
   The coaches in the league have an uncanny ability to draft for parity, though, something Cameron realized when he told his 11 players not to give up, anything could happen in the WYBA.
   Anything could, and did. The team went from the …