GA wins Independent baseball title

Germantown Academy's powerful offense, highlighted by two home runs off the bat of John Citrone, carried the Patriots to the championship of the Pennsylavnia Independent Schools baseball tournament with a 14-4 win over Germantown Friends on Saturday at Perkiomen School.

The top-seeded Patriots (29-3), who scored in double figures 14 times this season, outscored their four tournament opponents by 52-5.

Sean Coyle doubled and tripled, and Greg Guers and Alex Wilson also lined doubles for Germantown Academy, which grabbed an 11-2 lead in three innings.

Germantown Friends (21-8), which had its six-game streak snapped, got home runs by Jesse Biddle and Ben Rogers.

In the semifinals, Germantown Academy ousted Mercersburg Academy, 13-1, at Perkiomen School as Keenan Kish (7-3) pitched his final game of the season, allowing three hits in five innings.

Coyle, who broke the school record (eight) for single-season home runs earlier in the season, hit his 13th homer as part of the Patriots' 13-hit attack.

Germantown Friends, the No. 7 seed in the 17-team competition and the Friends Schools League champion, got to the final with a 5-4 win over Chestnut Hill in a semifinal at Upper Perkiomen.

Germantown Friends   002020 - 471

Germantown Academy   227003 - 14120

WP: Stolzer. LP: Tyler Clauson-Wolf. 2B: GA-Coyle, Guers, Wilson. 3B: GA-Coyle. HR: GA-Citrone 2; GFS-Jesse Biddle, Ben Rogers.

Mercersburg Academy   10000 - 130

Germantown Academy   1048x - 13132

WP: Keenan Kish. LP: Chris Thorsen. 2B: GA-Mike Fitzgerald, Sean Coyle, Chris Harvey. 3B: MA-Matt Timuney. HR: GA-Sean Coyle.

Chestnut Hill   0003010 - 472

Germantown Friends   1400000 - 5110

WP: Josh Goldenberg. LP: Hubbard. 2B: GF-Biddle. CH-McAllister. 3B: CH-McAllister.