The Chaparrals had their six-game winning end Thursday afternoon, losing both ends of a doubleheader to visiting Kankakee, 4-2 and 11-4 in Region 4 play.
 
COD (13-15, 10-12 Region 4) completed a stretch of 13 games in 10 days and now prepares for Saturday's doubleheader Milwaukee Area Tech.
 
Game 1: Kankakee 4, Chaparrals 2

• Kankakee scored three runs in the first on three unearned runs
• In the second, Michael Morgan's two-out, two-run double, scored Vinny Spotofora (single) and Joe Pender (walk) and cut the lead to 3-2
• The Chaps totaled five hits — two from Morgan and Hudson Williams (single) and Pender (double)
• Starter Aiden Pieniazek threw 4 2/3 innings, striking out three, walking three and scattering five hits — all four runs were unearned

 
Game 2: Kankakee 11, Chaparrals 4

• The Cavaliers repeated their first-game scoring efforts, taking a 3-0 lead in the first before COD had a chance to swing a bat
• Down 6-0, COD answered with consecutive RBI-singles from Joe Pender and Michael Morgan in the second
• The Chaps scored once in the fourth (Morgan RBI single) and in the sixth (Williams RBI single)
• Morgan went 3-for-3 with two RBI
• All eight hits were singles
• Mark Mennecke took the loss, striking out one and issuing three walks in 2 innings
• Reliever Michael Tuman threw 2 2/3 innings (one strikeout) and Joey Vandermeir went 2 1/3 innings (two strikeouts)