The profile: GAMP

We've been asked more than once around the yard, what is GAMP? The short answer is that GAMP is the next opponent Camp Hill will need to beat in order to repeat as the PIAA Class A champions.

GAMP, or Girard Academic Music Program, has never won a state playoff game in four appearances. In 2005 and '06 the Pioneers lost in the first round of the Class AA playoffs and followed that with shutout losses over the next two years in the Class A field.

GAMP (9-10) grabbed the lone Class A bid offered to District 12 with a run in the top of the seventh to down Masterman, 5-4, May 15.

The team has suffered through losing streaks of four and three games and is coming in off a 9-7 loss to George Washington in the quarterfinals of Philadelphia Public League playoffs on May 18.

The south Philadelphia school finished fifth in the eight-team Division A of the Philadelphia Public League with a 5-8 record.

Check back tomorrow afternoon for more updates on the teams that have clinched PIAA playoff berths.