Hellertown Legion Baseball Team Captures Division Championship

Note: The following press release was contributed.

With an 11-3 victory over rival Freemansburg Sunday at East End Field, Dimmick Park, Hellertown’s Senior Legion Baseball team captured its first NORCO Southern Division Championship since 2001. A playoff berth and the division championship came down to the 20th and final game of the regular season for both teams.

Freemansburg took the early lead in the second inning, scoring an unearned run. However, Hellertown quickly turned the tide with a seven runs in the bottom of the third. Nick Johns went the distance on the mound for Hellertown with seven strong innings, while at the plate Joe Schuyler was 3-4. Ryan Kern, Nate Harka, Zach Thatcher and Gabe Sinko each had two hits. 

Hellertown (10-10) will enter the NORCO playoffs as the #8 seed and will take on the #1 seed and North Division Champion Birches of Saylorsburg (16-4) in a first round, three-game series that begins on Tuesday, July 9. Game 1 will be played Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. in Saylorsburg, Game 2 will be played Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. in Hellertown (at either Dimmick Park or Saucon Valley High School—site to be determined) and Game 3 (if needed) will be played Thursday at 5:30 p.m. back in Saylorsburg.

Hellertown’s last NORCO Championship was in 1988. In addition to Hellertown and Birches (Saylorsburg), teams entering the 2013 NORCO Baseball playoffs include Bath, Kemp Post (Stroudsburg), Easton, East Stroudsburg, Northampton and Nazareth.