Knights rally to beat AppleSox 8-6 at Wenatchee.

Frosh Matt Boyd (pictured) of Oregon State hit and pitched Corvallis to the victory.

With Corvallis down 5-0, Boyd followed a seventh-inning lead-off double by catcher Corey Davis of Mt. Hood CC with a two-run homer to right.

That led to a huge inning for the Knights.

Corvallis would go on to score 8 runs in the inning.

Davis, a junior-to-be at Wright State, and Boyd started and finished the Knights' uprising.

With two outs, men on first and second, and the score tied 5-5, Davis delivered the game-winning hit, a two-run double to right. Boyd followed with a RBI single to give Corvallis the 8-5 lead.

Wenatchee jumped on the Knights early scoring 3 runs off emergency starter Mitch Patito of UC Riverside.

The Sox added two more runs off reliever Dean McArdle of Stanford on a two-run homer by Eric Peterson of University of Washington in the fifth inning.

Patito and McArdle both pitched three innings. McArdle picked up the win.

Reliever Alex St. Pierre of Lewis & Clark College replaced McArdle in the bottom of the seventh and appeared to get out of the inning (and trouble) on a foul popup, but Corvallis third baseman Jake Rodriguez couldn't make the play giving the Sox another life as St. Pierre issued a walk on the next pitch to load the bases.

Knights' head coach Brooke Knight then turned to Boyd to snuff the Sox threat, and the sophomore-to-be from Mercer Island, Washington came through inducing a ground out to end the inning.

Boyd gave up a run in the eighth, but tossed a scoreless ninth to earn his third save of the season.

With the win, Corvallis improves to 27-15 in WCL play and 31-15 overall.

Both Bend and Kitsap lost tonight. The Knights, currently in first place in the WCL West, are now 1.5 games ahead of the Elks and 4.5 games ahead of the BlueJackets.

The WCL division leaders face-off again Saturday night at Paul Thomas Sr. Stadium in Wenatchee. Game time is 7:05 pm.

You can listen to the game on KEJO 1240 AM. Chris King, the voice of the AppleSox, calls all the action.