Gettin' It Into Guers

Gettin '

Into Guers . . . Germantown Academy routs Penn

Charter This story appeared in the Daily News 4/15/10. By TED SILARY The recent word from

coach John Duffy to

outfielder Greg

Guers was that he

deserved to start,

but would have to

wait because no one

was slumping. "I was kind of the

sixth man of

baseball," Guers

said, laughing. Then came yesterday.

Take that number,

add three and you'll

have the number of

RBI collected by

Guers, a 6-3,

180-pound junior, as Germantown Academy pounded visiting

Penn Charter, 12-2,

in an Inter-Ac

League game limited

to five innings. Filling in for the

injured Alex Wilson

(pulled muscle),

Guers, a lefty

swinger (and

thrower), batted in

the seven hole. His

amazing afternoon

went like this:

two-run double into

the rightfield

corner, grand slam

down the rightfield

line, three-run

homer to dead

right-center. Three-for-3 for nine

RBI. (GA's field is

pro-style with

legitimate distances

and an outfield

fence.) "I didn't hear much

of a buzz from [the

spectators], but my

teammates were all

over it," Guers

said. "They kept

saying they were

going to try to get

me another at-bat so

I could go for 10

RBI and set a

record. Nobody even

knew if 10 was a

record. Just sounded

good. "The slam was on a

changeup. The others

were fastballs. The

slam cleared the

fence by maybe 20

feet. And I'd say | Greg Guers prepares to bat in second GA-PC game. the three-run homer was more like 40." Guers said Wilson, who incurred the injury

Wednesday vs. Haverford School, was still hoping to start as the Patriots

reported to the field. He then realized he couldn't play and notified Duffy. He thinks his previous lifetime high for RBI was

seven, accomplished in youth ball. "I felt real good in batting practice. Better than

I had in a while," said Guers, who lives in Newtown and also plays

basketball. "I knew I'd be starting by that point and I felt confident about

taking it into the game." The Patriots' next contest is a non-leaguer

tomorrow against visiting Lawrenceville (N.J.). "Coach Duffy said I'm making things tough for him,"

Guers said. "Off what I did today, it looks like I'll be starting." *