Malvern Prep will play host to Round 6 of the Inter-Ac
League’s mini-tournaments Wednesday at Waynesborough Country Club, but a young
and talented group of Friars has long since taken the drama out of the race for
the league title.
Off their latest 5-0 sweep in Monday’s mini-tournament host
by Germantown Academy at Plymouth Country Club, the Friars have already
clinched the title with a 25-0 mark. The only question now is whether they can
match the accomplishment of the 2012 Haverford School team that swept its way
to the title with a perfect 30-0 mark.
I managed to tack on a brief, and it turns out a little
flawed, report from Monday’s action at Plymouth to my report from the East
Regional at Golden Oaks Golf Club that appeared in Tuesday’s Daily Times.
Once again, the Friars were led by two freshmen with Matt
Civitella firing a 2-over 37 and Andrew Curran adding a 3-over 38. Curran, a
Media resident and Overbrook Golf Club member, missed some time this fall due
to illness, but showed he, like Civitella and John Updike, is a freshman who’s
got some game. It looks like Gary Duda’s team is going to be a handful for a
while to come.
Senior Marty McGuckin and junior Gavin Sims added 39s and
Updike and sophomore Matthew Davis rounded out the counting rounds with 41s.
It added up to 235 as the Friars survived a challenge from
another team with a bunch of talented youngsters, Episcopal Academy, by four
shots to keep their perfect record intact.
I credited Cole Kemmerer, who shot 40, with being the low
score for Episcopal, but upon closer review (it was a long ride – scenic but
long -- up to Berks County and back to Delco, what can I say), the Churchmen
were led by senior co-captain Cole Testaiuti and freshman Michael Zeng, both of
whom carded 3-over 38s. Kemmerer was their third best score at 40 and four
players, eighth-grader Case Hummer, junior Matt Marino, sophomore Jon Perry and
senior co-captain Scott McConnell, all had 41s.
Episcopal’s 239 total was two shots better than Haverford
School, which placed third at 241. The battle Wednesday at Waynesborough will
be for second between the Churchmen and the Fords. Haverford School, with a
17-7-1 mark, will take a narrow edge into the final mini-tournament over
Episcopal, which is 16-8-1, in the fight for second.
Haverford School was led by Thomas Gravina, who was the
overall medalist for the day with a 1-over 36.
Haverford School’s senior All-Delco Max Siegfried had a 41,
but held onto first place in the overall individual standings at 201-21-13. The
three top contenders for the top spot in the individual standings for the six
Inter-Ac mini-tournaments all had their worst round of the fall. The 41 by
Updike leaves him at 198-25-12 while Penn Charter sophomore Brian Isztwan, the
reigning Inter-Ac Tournament champion, had a 42 and sits in third at 197-32-6.
The next three players are all from Malvern Prep with
McGuckin (193-31-12), Civitella (189-39-6) and Davis (185-35-15), in fourth,
fifth and sixth places, respectively. It’s pretty scary for the rest of the
league that Malvern Prep has two freshmen, Updike and Civitella, in the top
five. And Davis in sixth is just a sophomore.
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