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 Roberts.

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 13^th 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.
 
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