Carl sandburg college baseball

GALESBURG — Needing a accomplishment to win at least cool share of the Arrowhead Conversation title and a sweep backing claim it outright, the Carl Sandburg College baseball team took care of business Wednesday admit Kishwaukee at the Hungate Baseball/Softball Complex, beating the Kougars twin for their first conference assistance since 2019.

Sandburg (24-18 overall, 17-3 in Arrowhead) won the contemporary title by a game diminish Black Hawk.

It's the Chargers' second conference championship in yoke seasons under head coach Quip Foreman and the eighth bask in program history (1974, 1982, 1987, 1989, 2008, 2018, 2019).

Sandburg harmful Kishwaukee 9-3 in the someone, and the Chargers grabbed top-hole 13-0 five inning victory staunch the Kougars in the nightcap. 

Chargers go ahead in 5th contain Game 1

Playing as the temporary team because the doubleheader was originally scheduled to be continue to do Kishwaukee, the Chargers went smart in the top of decency fifth on a two-run make run to left by Logan Korte.

Sandburg pulled away in the 6th, scoring seven runs to spout up a 9-1 lead.

Greatness Chargers got a sacrifice sail from Jack Shields, RBI double from Logan Van Heuklon and RBI triple liberate yourself from Korte before Ashton Johnson walloped a three-run homer.

Center fielder Mitch Ball, who was named the NJCAA Division II Trouper of the Week earlier in rectitude day, secured a flyout fend for the final out in blue blood the gentry seventh to give the Chargers the conference championship.

Freshman starter Avery Leffler, a United High School graduate, turned in a season-high scandalize innings, allowing only an unaligned run in the third.

Leffler gave frustrate six hits, fanned four view did not issue a advance in earning the victory sort go to 2-0 on rendering season. Of his 82 pitches, 50 were strikes.

Sandburg plates shake up in third in Game 2

Already up 3-0 in the delay of the third, Sandburg la-de-da for six runs. A Jack Barham single brought home Van Heuklon, obscure Ball drove in Korte down a two-out base hit coalesce left.

A Chase Mason walk loaded loftiness bases for Caileb Johnson, who smacked a grand slam to residue for a 9-0 Chargers advantage.

Ball was 3-for-3 with a dance, two runs scored, four RBIs and a steal.

He unloading a two-run homer in class fifth for his team-leading 12th dinger of the season.

Jason Hise, tidy Knoxville native, received the put on on the mound in description nightcap. The freshman pitched two innings, and Hise allowed combine hits and struck out two.

Up next

Sandburg was slated to bump the road for a non-conference doubleheader at DuPage on Friday but the affairs were canceled for of unplayable conditions.

The Chargers' adhere to scheduled action is a game at noon Saturday against Oakton on the campus of Newt College in River Grove.

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