Trenton Catholic Academy senior guard Dondre Whitmore has made it official: he will attend Harcum College beginning this fall, with the plan of matriculating at a four-year program in 2012. This possibility was first reported in “In the Huddle” last month.

The 5-foot-8 guard will undoubtedly get better over the next two seasons. He also hopes to get bigger, both height-wise and in the weight room.

He has formed a four-year starting backcourt with fellow TCA senior Frantz Massenat, who will attend Drexel University on scholarship. Whitmore also has Division I talent and Harcum has been churning it out in recent years. This season, the Bears went 26-3 and became the first Northeast team since 1974 to be ranked No. 1 in the National Junior College Athletic Association Division I ranks.

Whitmore, Massenat and TCA stand two wins away from the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association Tournament of Champions title, having received a first-round bye in the tournament which brings together six state champions. Second-seeded TCA will play either third-seeded University or sixth-seeded Mendham in the TOC semifinals Friday at Rutgers University.

TCA's girls' basketball team, like the boys the Non-Public 'B' state champion, bowed out of the TOC first round Tuesday night with a 49-40 loss to North Hunterdon in Toms River.