For Westtown girls’ basketball coach Fran Burbidge, the secret to success isn’t complicated.
”I’ll give you Fran’s top three rules to winning championships,” Burbidge said Sunday afternoon. “No. 1: have good players. No. 2: have good players. No. 3: have good players who know how to play hard and compete and play with each other.”Junior guard Zahra King led all scorers with 21 points. Eighth grader Jordyn Palmer added 13 points, 11 of which came during Westtown’s stifling defensive first quarter.
Penn Charter cut its 36-12 halftime deficit to 18 points in the fourth quarter after Palmer fouled out with five minutes left and Westtown senior Joniyah Bland-Fitzpatrick also fouled out about 30 seconds later.”We told them in the locker room that we’re so proud to be a part of this group and how they represent not only the community, but us as coaches,” Burbidge said. “We wouldn’t trade them for any team in the country.