The Times Herald (Norristown, PA)
CB West bands together, edges NP for Continental title
DOYLESTOWN >> Jess Broskey wasn’t going to let Emily Spratt down.
She couldn’t, not after Spratt kept trying when most anyone else would have given up on the play. She couldn’t, because it would have gone against everything the CB West girls’ basketball team has spent the season saying and believing about itself.
Jess Broskey wasn’t going to let Emily Spratt down and she didn’t, turning a hustle save on the baseline into an and-one score that all but sealed up Friday’s win over North Penn.
“It all starts with Maddie (Burke) down the other end, we’re always looking for teammates
THE SCORE
CB West 56, North Penn 46 Up next for CB West: The Bucks visit Quakertown on Tuesday.
Up next for North Penn: The Knights visit CB South on Tuesday.
and Maddie found Emily down the court, but it was going out of bounds,” Broskey said. “A lot of teams, they would have quit on that play but it epitomizes our entire season. Emily hustles out of bounds, practically falls out of bounds, saves it to me and since she had my back, I had to have hers.”
For Broskey and her three senior classmates — Maddie Burke, Maddy McGarry and Olivia Irons — it was a night to celebrate a season that’s gone right, but a celebration they had to earn with a 56-46 win over the Knights to secure an outright SOL Continental title on their home floor.
“It’s so special the group we have, we want it for each other,” Broskey said. “None of us go out and ask ‘how many points do I have? What’s in the boxscore?’ Everybody is picking each other up, we love it and we could not be having more fun.”
West locked up its first conference title since the 2014-15 season, before anyone on the current roster was in a Bucks uniform. The night, which began with a ceremony for the four seniors, ended with them cutting down the net.
There was just one problem.