Knights drop series finale to Falcons 5-2.

Joe Duffin (pictured) doubled, singled, scored and drove in a run for the Knights but Kelowna snapped their four-game winning streak with a 5-2 win on Sunday.

Kelowna (6-9 WCL) thus salvaged the final game of the series after being outscored 21-4 in the first two games. The Knights (10-6 all 9-6 WCL) remained in second place in the South Division of the West Coast League, behind Medford.

The Falcons scored three times in the seventh off starter Chris Bishop of PLU to erase a 2-0 deficit. Bishop had allowed six hits through six shutout innings before faltering in the seventh. Kelowna added two insurance runs in the ninth.

Corvallis took a 1-0 lead in the first when Dane Lund reached on an error, went to third on a double by Marc Gallegos and scored on Duffin's sacrifice fly. Duffin, a Connecticut commit, made it 2-0 in the fifth when he singled and scored on a two-bagger by Scott Quinlan of UC Santa Barbara.

However, the Knights got just two singles off reliever Riley Barr from that point on. Duffin and Gallegos were the only Knights with more than one hit, as each doubled and singled.

The Knights open a three-game series at Wenatchee on Monday night in a rematch of the last two WCL Championship Series participants. Wenatchee won in 2012; the Knights won in 2013.

Corvallis next home game is 6:40 p.m. Thursday against the Mid-Valley Rockets American Legion team, at Goss Stadium. Wenatchee then visits Corvallis on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

Sunday's crowd of 853 raised the season attendance to 11,860 in 10 openings. That's 63 fewer fans than through a corresponding number of home dates in 2013, when the Knights drew a team-record 43,529.