For the first time since 2002, the College of DuPage Chaparrals wear the Region 4
championship crown.
The Chaps built a 10-3 lead through six innings, and then held off No. 4-seed Oakton
in an 11-8 victory Sunday afternoon that brought the obligatory ice bath for Chaps'
assistant coaches Matt Gould, Pat Leahy and Jake Robert.
Winning the Region 4 title bestowed Gould with the Region 4 Coach of the Year.
No. 15-ranked COD (29-16 overall) won for the 13th straight time and 22nd of its last 25 games and now will travel to Fremont, Ohio,
for a best-of-three series against Terra State that begins Friday.
The Chaparrals and Titans (20-26 overall) play Friday afternoon at Sports Force Parks
at Cedar Point Sports Center in Sandusky, Ohio. Friday's games begin at noon Eastern
with a second game to follow.
A third-and-deciding game would be played Saturday at Heidelberg University in Tiffin,
Ohio. That game time is unknown as of Wednesday afternoon.
The final scores were COD 11, Oakton 8.
- The Chaps never trailed in the game and led early, taking a 2-0 lead on a pair of
unearned runs in the first and benefiting from four Oakton errors.
- Tourney MVP Filip Milatovic’s RBI-single scored Mark Mennecke (double) in the third for a 3-1 lead.
- Leading 3-2, COD padded the lead on Joe Pender’s two-run home run over the left-field wall in the fifth for a 5-2 lead.
- After Oakton got one back in the sixth, COD answered with a five-run, five-hit sixth.
- The Chaps sent 10 to the plate in the inning.
- Hudson Williams’ RBI-double scored Michael Morgan, who led off with a walk.
- Back-to-back hit by pitches loaded the bases for Pender, who delivered a sac fly to
left that scored Williams.
- Milatovic added an infield ground-out that scored Jake Pauley.
- Jack Wade finished off the inning with a two-run single.
- Oakton responded with a five-run seventh, and COD led 10-8.
- Vinny Spotofora’s two-out single scored Milatovic in the eighth.
- RHP Aiden Pienazek threw 3 2/3 innings, striking out one and issuing five walks.
- Reliever Mike Biscan came on in the fourth, and threw three innings, striking out
one for the victory.
- Leading 10-8, lefty Ryan Sigale came on with two outs in the seventh.
- Sigale earned the save, giving up one hit and allowing just one Owl to reach base.
- Pender, Milatovic, Spotofora, and Wade each drove in two runs.
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