AppleSox blank Knights 4-0 in series finale.

Nick Torres of Cal Poly (pictured) and Chris Rabago of UC Irvine had the Knights' only hits and Wenatchee quieted a ZOOperstars! night crowd of 1,369.

Torres' double with one out on the seventh hit the center-field fence on one hop to break up a no-hitter by starter Trevor Lubking. Rabago followed with a walk to knock Lubking out of the game, but reliever Beau Kearns got the next two outs to end the threat.

The Knights (20-14 WCL, 21-14 overall) had plenty of baserunners off Lubking, who walked five and saw another Knight reach on an error. However, he escaped every jam and Wenatchee�s (22-10 WCL) bullpen gave up just one hit over the final 2 2/3 innings.

Wenatchee scored single runs in the second, third, fourth and seventh off Max Beatty, Lubking's teammate at Pacific Lutheran. Taylor Starr finished up with 2.2 scoreless innings.

The Knights had 23 hits in the previous two games in the series but could not break loose on Wednesday. They left two runners on base in the first, fifth and ninth innings, stranded eight overall, and also hit into an inning-ending double play.

The Knights lead in the West Division was trimmed to three games over idle Bend. It was the fourth time in the last eight games they've been shut out.

Corvallis hosts the Albany Mid-Valley Rockets American Legion team at 6:40 p.m. Thursday. It's a Block 15 Thursday, presented by KLOO-FM, and the first 250 fans will receive a free mini-bat from COUNTRY Financial.

The next WCL game is Sunday at Goss Stadium, a 5:15 p.m. West Division contest against Bend that opens a five-game series. They play in Bend on Monday and Tuesday and back in Corvallis on Wednesday and Thursday.