SF seniors prove their worth

BOYERTOWN » Championship celebrations are normally a culmination.

When the Spring-Ford girls basketball team defeated Perkiomen Valley, 54-45, in the Pioneer Athletic Conference championship Wednesday night at Boyertown, it felt different.

Part culmination, part commencement.

With three starters — freshman Lucy Olsen and juniors Abby Goodrich and Cassie Marte — and most top reserves who aren’t seniors, including leading scorer Olsen, who had a team-high 13 points in the final, the Rams feel like a team that is only getting started.

But when the championship was on the line, the players who know this is their last chance delivered most.

Senior guard Rachel Christman and senior forward Sarah Cooper didn’t have stat lines that explode off the page — the Rams’ senior starters scored nine points each, Cooper with five rebounds, Christman 5-for-8 from the freethrow line — but the second-half big moments were senior moments.

“We have so much confidence in each other,” Cooper said. “We don’t care about our individual stats, who gets the winning basket, it’s just that we’re together.”

“In the end it was that we wanted it so much and the chemistry and the connection, everything clicked in those moments and we went for it,” Christman said.