WEST CHESTER >> Sports is a funny thing to figure out sometimes. A team can be expected to bring home a championship and fall short, while on the other hand, a team who is expected to struggle puts it all together and brings home the glory and the trophy. The Bishop Shanahan girls basketball team […]
LOWER GWYNEDD For Faith Ambrose, it just ended up being her with the good look from behind the 3-point line. “It feels good that my teammates trust me with those shots but I think it could’ve been anyone,” the Bishop Shanahan senior said. “It was just kind of the ball’s my hands at those times, so just ready to shoot.” Ambrose came through with clutch baskets throughout the visiting No. 9 Eagles’ District 1-5A girls baskteball quarterfinal with top-seeded Gwynedd Mercy and with contested knotted a 43 in the fourth quarter, delivered again connecting on her fifth 3-pointer to put Shanahan ahead. “I saw that there’s no one really at the top, I saw it was open,” Ambrose said. “And I knew there wasn’t much time left and it was tied and I shot it and it went in luckily.” The Monarchs who rallied from a 15-point second-quarter deficit were still within three in the final seconds but Emilia Coleman’s three from the top of the arc at the buzzer came up short