Liberty’s dominance in the spring the last few years has helped bring their program to the top of the food chain in the East Penn Conference baseball scene.

The Wanderers (13-6) have followed suit with Liberty’s pedigree during that span in the NORCO Legion.

For the third straight year, the Wanderers reached this week’s championship finals against Nazareth.

Heading into Tuesday’s best of three elimination game, the series was tied at 1-1 following Sunday’s doubleheader.

Nazareth took game one by a 2-1 score and the Wanderers followed up with a 7-0 shutout to give them an opportunity to win their third straight summer crown on Tuesday.

Unfortunately, the results of that contest are past Press deadlines, but manager Paul Walsh is ecstatic of what this team has been able to accomplish again this season by reaching the finals.

“To say I am proud of this crew would be the biggest understatement of my coaching career,” said Walsh. “They have battled time and time again during the regular season, but the heart they have shown being one game down in each of our three playoff series is second to none. I think this says a lot about our program.”

Certainly the fight that Liberty has shown during the spring has carried over to the Wanderers, as a large portion of the roster is made up of Hurricanes.

Walsh knows that helps play a part in the family atmosphere that has become inner woven with not only this year’s group, but the program in general.

“It highlights the fact that we do a pretty good job disguising what is really a second family as a baseball team,” he said. “That’s what we are, and that’s what it takes to fight the way we have. You have to be a family where no one leaves a member behind.”

Whether the Wanderers take home a third straight championship or not, they’ll still advance to this week’s Regional tournament, as both finalists get a spot when the tournament gets underway on July 18.

Freemansburg looked like they might have been on the upset trail when they knocked off Nazareth in game one of their semifinal series 5-0, but couldn’t grab the decisive second win to set an all Bethlehem final.

Nazareth took games two and three to eliminate them from the postseason, but it doesn’t take away from the type of campaign they had, finishing the summer with an 11-8 mark.