Wenatchee wins series finale with fast start.

Knights' reliever Kyle Hart (pictured) pitched three scoreless innings but by then the damage was done in the 7-3 victory for the AppleSox.

Wenatchee (20-4 WCL) thus won its second series over the Knights (15-9 overall, 14-9 WCL) to conclude regular-season action between the perennial WCL powers. The AppleSox also took 2 of 3 in Wenatchee on June 20-22.

Even with the loss the Knights remained atop the West Division standings, one game ahead of Cowlitz and Kitsap.

The AppleSox scored five times in the first inning and were never threatened. The rally came off Knights' lefty Mark Trentacosta (2-1), normally the closer, who made an emergency start in place of Adam Duke.

Trentacosta was victimized by two errors � one his � and several seeing-eye infield singles and left after the first inning. Chris Mendoza, Hart, Matt Pechmann and Sebastian Santos held Wenatchee to two runs the rest of the way but the early deficit was too big for the Knights to overcome.

A sophomore from the University of Redlands who was a first-team SCIC all-star this spring, Hart allowed two hits and struck out three in his three innings. It matched his longest outing this summer, and he lowered his ERA from 2.30 to 1.93.

The Knights scored in the second on single by David Armendariz and Corey Moore and Dane Lund's RBI groundout. They loaded the bases with no outs in the ninth and scored their final two runs on Corey Davis's sacrifice fly and Sean Myron's RBI groundout.

Moore, Armendariz and Trent Oleszczuk had two hits apiece for Knights. Wenatchee had 15 hits on Saturday and 39 in the series. Owen Jones (4-0) of Portland pitched his third complete game and had nine strikeouts.

The Knights learned Saturday that infielder Alex Foulon of Mt. Hood CC will be sidelined indefinitely with a shoulder injury suffered in the ninth inning of Friday�s 11-7 win over the AppleSox. He was hitting .298 in 16 games, with no homers, three RBIs and a team-high 10 runs.

Also, pitcher Jimmie Sherfy of Oregon will miss the rest of the summer with a lower abdominal muscle strain. He was 0-0, 2.70 in 3.1 innings in two appearances.

The Goss Stadium crowd of 1,264 raised the season attendance to 14,560. The Knights have drawn nearly 5,000 more fans in 2011 than through a corresponding period in 2010.

The homestand concludes at 7:15 p.m. Sunday with the annual OSU Federal Credit Union Fireworks Night game against Bend. General admission tickets are still available; the box office and stadium open at 5:30 p.m.

Righty Max Beatty (3-0, 1.75), who pitched seven shutout innings in a 1-0 victory at Kitsap last Monday, is the Knights� projected starter, opposed by Bend righty Daniel Chavez (3-1, 1.50). The Elks took 2 of 3 against the Knights in Bend on June 10-12.