Knights drop heartbreaker in 12 innings to Bellingham 3-2. Alex St. Pierre (pictured) tosses 9 innings and allows no earned runs.

Nathan Eisenhauer of PLU took the loss in relief. Both St. Pierre and Eisenhauer delivered valiant efforts.

St. Pierre deserved a win and Eisenhauer was the hard luck loser as the sophomore battled in the 12th and almost escaped a no-out bases loaded jam by striking out Kawika Emsley-Pai of Lewis-Clark State College and Beau Brett of USC before giving up the game-winning single to Junnior Dishmey-Perez of Tarleton State.

Dishmey-Perez made a brilliant defensive play in the top of the ninth to keep the Knights from tying the game by throwing out Tim Reavis of Concordia at the plate on a hard ground ball to his right by Matt Duffy of Long Beach State.

But the Knights would not be denied. With two outs and runners on the corners, Michael Blake of Mt. Hood CC hit a ball down the leftfield line to score Jake Rodriguez, but Blake was thrown out at second as the junior-to-be at Hawaii inadvertently stopped and re-started in an attempt to still reach second base.

Both Bells runs off St. Pierre were unearned.

Corvallis grounded into three bases loaded double plays, two 1-2-3 inning-ending twin killings and a no-out 6-4-3 double play ground ball off the bat of clean-up hitter Daniel Dillard of Western Oregon, which plated the Knights first run.

The Knights are now 0-2 in extra-inning games and two of their first four games have gone extra frames.

Corvallis looks to bounce back on Tuesday night vs. the Bells at Joe Martin Field in game two of the series. Catch the game on KEJO 1240 AM. Jason Schwartz's pre-game show starts at 6:20 pm.

The team is expecting catcher Miles Kizer of University of Washington; infielder Justin Viele of Santa Clara; two-way players Dylan Jones and Matt Boyd of Oregon State; pitcher Dean McArdle of Stanford; infielder JK Dykes of Washington State; and pitcher Eric Young of Riverside CC to report on Friday in Longview for the club's two-game road series vs. the expansion Cowlitz Black Bears.