The Potomac School Panthers made history this spring by finishing with an undefeated record for the first time in conference play.
The high-school baseball team was 12-0 in the Mid-Atlantic Athletic Conference, which begin in 1994. The Panthers capped regular-season conference play with a 7-6 comeback road victory over Sidwell Friends, then routed St. Andrews, 23-0.
By virtue of finishing first, the Panthers (17-4 overall) are the top seed in this week’s conference tournament, a championship the team won a year ago. Potomac School takes a two-season 20-game winning streak into the tourney, in which it receives a first-round bye, then hosts a semifinal game May 9.
In the win over Sidwell Friends, Paul Witkop doubled home Wyatt Pence with the game-winning run in the top of the seventh inning. Pence opened the inning with a double.
The Panthers rallied from a 6-2 deficit after four innings.
Witkop also was the winning pitcher in three innings of perfect relief, with six strikeouts, needing only 37 pitches.
The Panthers had 11 hits in the game and Sidwell just two. Witkop, Pence, Jason Seeber, Colby Bohnen and Owen Peterson (home run, three RBI) all had two hits for Potomac School.
In the win over St. Andrews, Potomac School had 18 hits and allowed one.
Seeber (two doubles) and Jackson Wiley led the way with four hits each. Witkop had three hits and three RBI; Bohnen tripled, had two hits and four RBI; Peterson had two hits and three RBI; Jake Adamec had a hit, a sacrifice fly and three RBI; and Pence and Christian Lam (two RBI) had hits.
Owen Taylormoore, Kai Jefferson, Ian Parrish and Gavin Spiegel did the pitching.
The regular season ended for Potomac School with a 1-0 non-conference road loss to Collegiate in a May 4 game. The loss snapped the team’s 15-game winning streak this season.
• With a strong finish to the regular season, the Flint Hill Huskies (9-12, 8-4) will be the No. 3 seed in the Mid-Atlantic Athletic Conference tournament. The Huskies are scheduled to host No. 6 seed St. James in a first-round game.
The Huskies, who started the season 0-7, won their final six regular-season games, five against MAC opponnets.
Flint Hill capped the regular season with a 7-4 non-conference win over Woodberry Forest on May 4.
