By Andrew Robinson
Plymouth Whitemarsh’s players knew it was in them and it was time to prove it.
For the first time all season, the undefeated and top-seeded Colonials girls basketball team entered a fourth quarter trailing in a game. No. 9 Haverford had made everything extremely difficult, the Fords bringing the right mix of toughness and physicality that had put PW in a position it hasn’t faced much of this year and potentially on the brink of title-derailing loss.
They hadn’t had to show it prior to Saturday, but there is a winning mindset in each and every Colonial player.
Thanks to that mentality, PW dug in, rallied back and took control in the fourth to stave off their toughest test of the season with a 36-28 win over the Fords to clinch a spot in the District 1-6A semifinals.
“Playing Haverford and teams like Haverford, it pushes us to be better than we are,” PW senior Jordyn Thomas said. “I think it helps us understand if we make a mistake here or a mistake there, we can get that back on defense or get it back on offense. It showed us we are this kind of team and we can make it as far as we want to.”