Two Sunday's ago Bangor's Westyn Baylor was the last of the eight participants to qualify for Saturday night's high school home run derby at Coca-Cola Park, a competition to detemine which two local high school players would get to compete against the pros at the Triple-A Home Run Derby.
And by finishing last among the eight qualifiers two weeks ago, Baylor had to take his swings first on Saturday night.
By the time the Slater finished his round, he had enough points to earn a return trip here for the July 12 derby.
Baylor and Nazareth's D.J. King advanced to join six Triple-A players in the derby, part of the festivities leading up to the Triple-A All-Star game on July 14 hosted by the IronPigs.
Baylor, who beat five others in a tiebreaker two weeks ago to earn the eighth and final slot on Saturday, finished with 13 points, hitting two home runs (5 points each) and another to the warning track (3 points).
King led the way with 23 points on one homer and six warning track shots.
Quakertown's Jayson Rathjens finished third with nine points, followed by first-round winner Adam Wehr of Northwestern and Phillipsburg's Robert Howell (one homer each) with eight points each.
Whitehall's Carlos Urena collected three points while Bethlehem Catholic's Patrick Walshe and Northampton's Josh Fehnel failed to score.
King and Baylor will be allowed to use aluminum bats in the finals competition against the six pros, who will be selected at a later date. Derby scoring, however, will be one point per home run.
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