. >> ashlea: matthew poole has been the manager of pisgah high's team. >> he helps us. he keeps us upbeat, that's his job. >> ashlea: in an ideal world, matthew probably would have been a player. us that he'd probably never walk or talk. we knew there was something going to be special out of him. >> ashlea: matthew has cerebral palsy. his muscles hurt nearly constantly. but you can't tell. >> we have bad days and then we look at him and everything he's been through, what he's doing is smiling about it. >> ashlea: basketball is hard and often painful for him. in the senior night game was nothing short of a miracle . >> i couldn't eat because i was so excited. >> ashlea: his classmates erupted when he came out of the student section. but the gym was about to get even louder. he started in the first play of the game, got the ball on the three point line. the team, the crowd, his and for matthew, what was the best part of that night. it wasn't the three points. >> my team mates. >> ashlea: it was the people. >> when i saw my team mates, they started hugging me and everything

shooting that three-pointer for pisgah high was matthew poole. the senior has managed the varsity basketball team for four years. he's done it despite the fact that he has cerebral palsy. poole started in the senior night game on tuesday and sunk that three-point shot about ten seconds in to the game. >> it was so loud. she was emotional. i was emotional. >> i was crying. >> everyone was crying. but it was absolutely wonderful for him. you know. everybody. >> darcel: matthew said scoring the three-pointer wasn't his favorite part of the night. he says the best part was having his team mate and coach hug him right after he made it. has become somewhat of a local legend around waynesville. to many people he's been a welcome site for more than a decade. what he does may not seem important, odd even. but when you get to know donny, it makes perfect sense. >>> on the way to waynesville, just a hop, skip and a jump downtown, there's a community called frog level. but these days it's what happens above the creek. what happens on this bridge has become a

matthew poole has been the varsity manager. he has cerebral palsy. he suited up and made that three-pointer about 10 seconds in to the game. >> she was emotional. i was emotional. but it was absolutely wonderful for him. you know. he's just so special to everybody. >> larry: matthew said that scoring those three points was not his favorite part of the night. the best part he says was having his team mates and h his coach give him a hug afterwards. >> darcel: very special. get ready for more winter weather. >> larry: this weekend we'll be spared. but it will be here next week. later on. jason is here with more on the time line. >> jason: one thing i will guarantee, it will be nothing like jonas a week and a half ago when we had 12 plus inches of snow. 41 degrees for the high temperature today. we did start out close to average at 27. no rain or snow today. still have 5.71 inches for the year. thank goodness the winds have weakened. then we get a brief warm up before the snowy scenarios. that feeling. you know the one. that "grand-slam, aced-the-presen

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