By Joseph Santoliquito
The feeling came in August during the open workouts that something special was brewing. The Archbishop Carroll girls’ basketball team didn’t mind the heat or the sweat. They embraced it. It told them they were working hard.
It’s when an underlying attitude began to form that this team could make a deep state playoff run. They had no doubt about that.
More proof came Thursday night, when the Patriots fought off numerous charges from tiny, feisty Neumann-Goretti in a 53-46 Catholic League victory.
Carroll, behind a game-high 26 points from Taylor “Wilt” Wilson, 14 from her sister Brooke and 13 from Grace O’Neill, improved to 12-4 overall and remained perfect in the Catholic League at 8-0, while Neumann-Goretti fell to 6-6 and 2-2 in the league.
This is where the Carroll players expected themselves to be. In this last month, the Patriots have made believers of the rest of the Catholic League. The Pats have beaten league stalwarts Cardinal O’Hara, Archbishop Wood and now Neumann-Goretti.