Knights beat Black Bears 5-4 in 16-inning thriller to earn series sweep before crowd of 980 at Goss.

Dylan Jones (pictured) of Oregon State hit a walk-off home run in the bottom of the 16th to win it for Corvallis.

Reliever Dean McArdle of Stanford pitched three scoreless innings to earn the win.

The victory was the Knights' first extra-inning win of this season.

Corvallis scored two unearned runs in the seventh inning to take a 2-1 lead. Both runs were gift wrapped as the Knights scored on a two-out throwing error and then on a balk with runners at first and third.

Cowlitz took the lead in the eighth as Braxton Miller of Lewis-Clark State College blasted a two-run homer off reliever Matt Boyd of OSU.

Cowlitz added another run in the ninth off Corvallis closer Mitch Patito of UC Riverside, the first run Patito's allowed this summer, to go up 4-2.

But the Knights mounted a rally in the ninth as Daniel Dillard of Western Oregon worked a lead-off walk off Cowlitz reliever Alex Keudall of University of Oregon. After a line out by Griffin Boyd of Mt. Hood CC, Jake Rodriguez, a frosh-to-be at OSU, reached safely on an infield hit.

With men at first and second, pinch-hitter Thomas McCarthy of Feather River College was retired on a flyout to right.

Catcher Corey Davis of Mt. Hood CC then stepped up to the plate, and Dillard and Rodriguez executed a double steal to put two runners in scoring position.

With two strikes, Davis hit a fly ball to left-center that dropped for a game-tying two-run double. It appeared the Cowlitz leftfielder and centerfielder miscommunicated allowing the ball to drop out of their reach and allow the tying runs to score.

From there, the game was a test of wills as both teams posted zeroes from the tenth through the fifteenth innings before Jones ended it all with a no doubt homer to right off Black Bears' closer Chris Dennis of University of Portland.

Alex St. Pierre of Lewis & Clark College, recently called up from the WCL Portland, tossed three critical shutout innings and starter John Pecoraro of San Diego State twirled four innings of scoreless ball, striking out 4.

With the win, Corvallis improves to 20-14 in the WCL and gains a game on Kitsap who lost at home to Kelowna tonight.

The Knights swept Cowlitz both at Goss and at David Story Field in Longview, Washington to go 6-0 vs. the expansion Black Bears.

Corvallis welcomes the WCL East second-place Moses Lake Pirates tomorrow night. Game time is 6:35 pm.

Moses Lake is coming off a series win vs. the Bend Elks.

You can catch the entire Pirates series on KEJO 1240 AM. Mike Parker and Jason Schwartz call all the action.