Chargers End Season With Region Quarterfinal Loss at Kankakee

KANKAKEE — Top-seeded Kankakee swept the Carl Sandburg College softball team in Tuesday's Region IV Division II District A quarterfinal.

The Cavaliers took the first two games of the best-of-three series and advanced to this weekend's Region IV finals. The Chargers end their season with a 10-38 record.

GAME 1
Kankakee 24, Sandburg 2 (5 innings)
Sandburg         200      00        —        2          2          5
Kankakee        (10)86 0x        —        24        22        2
L: Chelsey Catton 1.2. IP, 1 K, 3 BB

KEY MOMENT
Sandburg tallied a pair of first-inning runs as Elly Bentley led off with a walk and later scored on an error in center field. Brooklyn Walker added an RBI single for an early 2-0 lead, but Kankakee sent 14 batters to the plate in a 10-run bottom of the first.

GAME 2
Kankakee 11, Sandburg 3 (6 innings)
Sandburg         000      210      —        3          6          2
Kankakee        142      202      —        11        13        1
L: Brooklyn Walker 5 IP, 2 K, 1 BB

KEY MOMENTS
• Kankakee scored in each of the first four innings to build a 9-2 lead.
• The Chargers got on the board in the fourth as Chelsey Catton scored on a double steal and Bentley singled in Olivia Lewis from second. Maleaha Nagel added an RBI single in the fifth to make it 9-3.

SANDBURG STANDOUT
Catton went 2 for 3 with a double, a run scored and a stolen base in Game 2.

OTHER TOP CHARGERS
• Lewis: 1 for 2, walk, run, two steals 

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