Landazuri leads Knights to South Division title, 6-2.

Angel Landazuri (pictured) stymied Bend through eight innings and Corvallis clinched its eighth straight division title with the home victory.

A rising sophomore at UC Riverside, Landazuri gave up two runs in the second, then retired 20 of the next 21 Elks in order. The Knights subsequently rallied in the late innings to give him his fourth win in four decisions.

Corvallis (38-16 all, 33-16 WCL) leads the Elks (28-21) by five games in the South Division, with five to play. Corvallis clinched the 9-game season series with Tuesday's triumph and thus owns the tiebreaker in the unlikely event the teams would finish even in the standings.

"It feels good to get the W against our rivals," Landazuri said. "It wasn't my best outing but I feel I did enough to help the team win. The team backed me up and I couldn't be more thankful."

Corvallis missed on several early scoring chances but finally erased a 2-0 deficit with four runs in the sixth off starter Zack Carter and reliever Michael Bennett.

Dalton Kelly's (UC Santa Barbara) leadoff single, a hit batsmen and a walk loaded the bases. Phil Leopold (Bellarmine) walked to force in one run, and a wild pitch tied the game 2-2. The Knights went ahead 3-2 on Jackson Soto's (West Albany HS/OSU in 2014-15) RBI groundout and Logan Ice (Oregon State) knocked in the fourth run with a double.

An RBI double by Soto and Michael Lucarelli's (Portland) sacrifice fly added two insurance runs in the eighth. That gave closer Brandon Choate (Washington) a 6-2 cushion in the ninth and he retired the Elks without incident.

Kelly had three singles, a steal and a run and Soto and Ice added RBI doubles for the Knights. They've won three different styles of division championships: West (2007-12) and South (2013) titles under the old two-division format, and this year's crown in the current three-division setup.

The series resumes at 6:40 p.m. Wednesday. Righty Justin Calomeni (3-0, 2.47) of Cal Poly gets the start for the Knights; Bend's starter is TBA.

Tuesday's crowd of 1,105 raised the season total to 38,167 in 30 openings. That's 519 less than 2013 in a comparable number of home dates; the Knights drew a franchise-record 43,557 fans last summer.