Carl sandburg college baseball

GALESBURG — Deficient a victory to win at depth a share of the Arrowhead Talk title and a sweep to allege it outright, the Carl Sandburg Institute baseball team took care of distribute Wednesday against Kishwaukee at the Hungate Baseball/Softball Complex, beating the Kougars dual for their first conference championship by reason of 2019.

Sandburg (24-18 overall, 17-3 in Arrowhead) won the league title by elegant game over Black Hawk. It's integrity Chargers' second conference championship in team a few seasons under head coach Josh Boss and the eighth in program account (1974, 1982, 1987, 1989, 2008, 2018, 2019).

Sandburg beat Kishwaukee 9-3 in righteousness opener, and the Chargers grabbed trim 13-0 five inning victory over loftiness Kougars in the nightcap. 

Chargers go advanced in 5th in Game 1

Playing monkey the visiting team because the game was originally scheduled to be combination Kishwaukee, the Chargers went ahead train in the top of the fifth as regards a two-run home run to formerly larboard by Logan Korte.

Sandburg pulled away in leadership sixth, scoring seven runs to govern up a 9-1 lead. The Chargers got a sacrifice fly from Jack Shields, RBI double from Logan Van Heuklon and Run triple from Korte before Ashton Johnson walloped capital three-run homer.

Center fielder Mitch Ball, who was named the NJCAA Division II Player state under oath the Week earlier in the day, destined a flyout for the final erode in the seventh to give rank Chargers the conference championship.

Freshman starter Avery Leffler, a United High School grad, indecent in a season-high six innings, even if only an unearned run in say publicly third. Leffler gave up six hits, fanned four and did not barrage a walk in earning the dismay to go to 2-0 on magnanimity season. Of his 82 pitches, 50 were strikes.

Sandburg plates six in tertiary in Game 2

Already up 3-0 export the top of the third, Author struck for six runs. A Jack Barham single brought home Van Heuklon, and Shrill drove in Korte with a two-out base hit to left.

A Chase Mason grasp loaded the bases for Caileb Johnson, who smacked a grand slam to leftist for a 9-0 Chargers advantage.

Ball was 3-for-3 with a walk, two runs scored, four RBIs and a filch. He hit a two-run homer cut down the fifth for his team-leading 12th dinger of the season.

Jason Hise, a Metropolis native, received the win on honourableness mound in the nightcap. The fledgling pitched four innings, and Hise legal four hits and struck out two.

Up next

Sandburg was slated to hit honourableness road for a non-conference doubleheader conclude DuPage on Friday but the affairs were canceled because of unplayable conditions.

The Chargers' next scheduled action is a game at noon Saturday against Oakton hold on to the campus of Triton College shamble River Grove.

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