Bath defeats Wind Gap to advance to semifinals of Northampton County American Legion baseball playoffs

By TOM HINKEL
The Express-Times
WIND GAP | Bath's Northampton County American Legion League baseball team had four players with two hits each Wednesday before Wind Gap's cleanup hitter came to the plate.

That pretty much told the story as Tyler Brong had four hits to lead hot-hitting Bath to a 19-6 romp in five innings in the deciding game of the best-of-three quarterfinal series at Wind Gap Borough Park.

Bath (13-8), the fifth seed, advances to the semifinals to play second-seeded Nazareth beginning at 5:30 today at Nazareth Borough Park.

Bath's win comes on the heels of Tuesday's 18-6, five-inning rout in Game 2. For the mathematically un-inclined, that's 37 runs in 10 innings.

"It started (Tuesday) night," said Bath managers Dave Brong, Tyler's father. "We woke up (Wednesday) and it continued."

"We ran into a buzzsaw," Wind Gap manager Robby Young said. "They are hot. They hit everything we threw at them."

Tyler Brong produced a home run, two runs scored and four RBIs. Tommy Black added three hits and four runs to Bath's 17-hit attack.

Evan Allman and Dre Haller each had two hits and James Bertolotti homered.

"It's nice to have people swing the bats all around me," said Tyler Brong, who just graduated from Liberty High School and will play baseball at Lehigh University next season.

Tyler Brong ignited Bath's seven-run first-inning outburst with a three-run homer up the left-center field gap.

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