2 days Ago By Daily Times
For the first time, the Inter-Ac League is the champion of the Carpenter Cup baseball tournament. A sacrifice fly by Jimmy Amplo of Shipley School scored Germantown Academy’s Lucas Albert, who’d led off the bottom of the ninth inning with a single, to lead the Inter-Ac/Independents to a 3-2 win over Tri-Cape at Citizens Bank Park Wednesday. Perennial powers Tri-Cape had led 2-0 after 3.
5 innings. But the Inter-Acs stunned them with two runs in the eighth and the walk-off blow in the ninth. Malvern Prep’s Cole Kirschner brought the game to life with a gap-splitting double in the eighth, the first three Inter-Ac batters of the inning reaching.
The double scored Tommy Markey of Springside Chestnut Hill and Episcopal Academy’s JD Amoroso, who had both singled. It was the Inter-Acs’ only extra-base hit of the day. The Inter-Acs couldn’t get Kirschner home from second with none out, but they got the job done an inning later.
It backed a stellar pitching performance. Malvern Prep’s Tague Davis allowed one unearned run in three innings to start. Sean McGettigan of Germantown Academy allowed a run in the fourth.
But after that, the Inter-Ac hurlers buckled down. Episcopal Academy’s Logan Correll brought the Tri-Cape bats to heel, the Lehigh commit tossing three innings of two-hit ball, walking two and striking out five. Cole Stocks of Penn Charter and Hunter West of Episcopal each tossed a scoreless frame.
West got credit for the win..
