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AVONDALE, Ariz. -- Kyle Busch won for the 10th time in the Xfinity Series this season with a victory at Phoenix International Raceway on the night NASCARs second-tier series set its inaugural championship field.The final four for next weekends race at Homestead-Miami Speedway will be a battle between Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Joe Gibbs.Both car owners got two drivers each into the championship field the first year NASCAR rolled out the Chase for its lower two national series. The Chase uses the same elimination format as the Sprint Cup Series, and eight drivers were competing for the final four slots on Saturday night.Daniel Suarez and Erik Jones, both driving for Joe Gibbs Racing, got in. JR Motorsports qualified Justin Allgaier and Elliott Sadler.After the race, Sadlers car was inspected for a lug nut infraction. NASCAR announced the car had two loose nuts but Sadler wont receive a penalty and he will be racing for the title next weekend. Sadlers crew chief Kevin Meendering will be suspended for the championship race.I think we might have a loose lug. Theyll look at it. But, hey, we did what we had to do, Sadler said.Sadler, a longtime NASCAR veteran, is seeking his first title at the national level and has his best chance this year in this winner-take-all format.Were pumped about it -- we really put all our eggs in one basket, and thats that Homestead car, he said.Allgaier had to stretch a drying gas tank over the closing laps to claim his spot and keep Blake Koch out of the field. Koch was keeping an eye postrace on Sadlers situation, but immediately apologized for an earlier incident with Darrell Wallace Jr. that knocked Wallace out of title contention.Busch, meanwhile, is racing Sunday for a spot in Sprint Cups final four. New rules will make him ineligible to race in any Chase races in a lower series next year, so this was his last victory in the fall race at Phoenix.Busch noted hed learned something about the tires by running the Xfinity race, and he planned to confer with his Cup team to get better prepared for Sundays main event. The reigning Sprint Cup champion had the fastest car in Saturdays final practice.We got a lot better. I feel like were at least in the ballpark, Busch said of Sunday. Weve got a top-five race car and well go from there.Brendan Gaughans championship chances ended when he wrecked with 63 laps remaining. He was in a must-win situation and came to Phoenix last in the eight-driver standings.Wallace, who was seventh in the standings, was wrecked when Koch ran into Wallaces lane and caused the accident. 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Northants 326 (Newton 130, Wakely 104, Payne 4-57) and 376 (Levi 95, Duckett 70) beat Gloucestershire 261 (Payne 56, Keogh 4-67) and 327 (Hankins 116, Mustard 79, Sanderson 8-73) by 114 runsScorecard Ben Sanderson took a career-best 8 for 73 as Northamptonshire ended their 2016 season with a 114-run win over Gloucestershire at Wantage Road.Needing to bat out the final day with eight-wickets in hand, George Hankins made a maiden first-class century but Sanderson saw Northants to a fourth win in their final six games, taking four wickets with the second new ball.Sanderson removed Gareth Roderick and Will Tavare on the third evening but took until after lunch on day three to add to his haul. He ended a fourth-wicket stand of 103 by having Chris Dent held at second slip and two balls later trapped Hamish Marshall lbw for a second-ball duck to revive his sides hopes.They had slipped again as Hankins, with 116 to his name, and Phil Mustard moved Gloucestershire to 286 for 5 with 27 overs left in the day but Sanderson found movement with the second new-ball to beat the inside edge of Hankins to take out middle and leg stump - completing a fourth five-wicket haul of the season - and then trap Jack Taylor lbw for 5.It left Northants with 23 overs to find three wickets. Sanderson had Craig Miles edging to second slip, Rory Kleinveldt forced David Payne into a tame chip to extra-cover before, fittingly, Sanderson won the game by ending Mustards resistance - he also edged to second slip for a battling 79.Sanderson, who finished the 2016 season with 55 County Championship wickets at 21.03, said: It was a very hot day and to get eight is just amazing. We kneew that a couple with the new ball would give us a new lease of life and it wobbled just a little bit.dddddddddddd We thought they were a bit short with the ball so we worked on our lengths to get a bit fuller and it proved key in both innings.I said I probably wont beat the 7-for at Swansea but this is amazing. What a way to end the season.Sandersons career-best rendered Hankins own career-best 116 part of a losing cause. He occupied the crease for over four hours on the final day, moving Gloucestershire towards a draw that looked unlikely with the visitors 151 for 5 an hour after lunch.Hankins survived a verbal and short-ball barrage throughout the afternoon but showed excellent application to frustrate Northants. He ran keenly between the wickets and almost never missed out on a poor ball, pulling - once notably through mid-on - and cutting with confidence.Ninety-five not out at tea, he took just two overs to reach a maiden century in 154 balls with a dabbed single wide of point, with his father in attendance having dashed down from business in Leicester.He and Mustard shared 135 for the sixth wicket to repel Northants for a long part of the afternoon before Sanderson won the game with the second new ball.Richard Dawson, Gloucestershires coach, said: Our aim for the day was just to bat out and if wed batted the day, we may have been there or thereabouts.George is a natural scorer, hes got every shot in the book, and to rein himself in he did very well and got his reward for patience and wearing the bowlers down. ' ' '