PW sweeps Abington to claim outright SOL American title

WHITEMARSH >> Rylie Watton and the Plymouth Whitemarsh girls volleyball seniors had been waiting a long time for their hard work to pay off.

It came Thursday as the Colonials were strong from the service line and kept visiting Abington at bay throughout to sweep the visiting Galloping

Ghosts 3-0 (25-20, 25-12, 25-19) to secure the outright Suburban One League American Conference championship.

“I’ve been playing since I was a freshman and this is my senior year — there’s 10 seniors so we kind of built it together,” said Watton, PW’s setter. “And finally seeing it all come together is all really special.”

The Colonials closed out the first two games with aces while

Caroline Veon’s trio of aces during a five-point run in the third helped put the hosts in control as Plymouth Whitemarsh remained undefeated and earned its first conference title since 2018.

“It means so much to us,” PW senior outside hitter Neve Straff said. “We worked so hard the past four years, everyone and it’s just amazing that we could get this win. We’ve been wanting to beat Abington by this much for so long and it’s really good that we won.”

Plymouth Whitemarsh’s last outright SOL championship came in 2016 with the Colonials claiming a share of the American title in both of the next two years.

Over the following three seasons, the Colonials stayed among the conference’s better