The Times Herald (Norristown, PA)
Colonials
we’re going good ... if your home can become a house of horrors, good. We’re very proud of high-level success, high level of winning. I never take it for granted.”
“From sophomore year, to junior year, we don’t want to lose at home,” senior Ahmin Williams, who joined Plymouth Whitemarsh as a sophomore and immediately made an impact, said, “especially with our amazing crowd. Every time we step on the floor we want give it our all, press 90 feet. It’s just a feeling about PW. That feeling makes you want to play harder. We don’t lose at the crib. We don’t lose at home.”
The second-round district game will be for 50 straight home wins. If all goes according to plan, the Suburban One League American Conference and Suburban One League tournament champions will close out Colonial Gym with 51 straight wins and head to the district semifinals at Temple University for the fourth straight season.
The last time they lost at home was a 52-47 defeat to Wissahickon in the district playbacks on Feb. 21 2014. Since, they’ve gone 9-0 at home in the postseason — 3-0 in 2015, 2016 and 2017.
In the regular season this year, PW hasn’t even played a close game at home, averaging a 31.4-point margin of victory. The closest game at Colonial Gym was a 20-point win over Wissahickon — a school that went 16-6 and is the fourth seed in District 1 Class-5A — on Jan. 23.
“I like when you get on those streaks,” Donofrio said. “I actually don’t think we played a great game here all season. I think a lot of it has to do with this was a really disjointed kind of schedule. It was a lot of those neutral site games in December (wins over Archbishop Carroll, Archbishop Wood and Bonner & Prendergast) and the big-name teams we played it was either a Tuesday night or they were too far spread apart. I just think we’ve played relaxed here.”