Kline hits fifth homer as Knights top Kelowna 12-1.

Kevin Kline (pictured) homered, tripled and drove in three runs on Saturday to lead Corvallis to its fourth win in a row, 12-1 over Kelowna.

The Knights (10-5 al, 9-5 WCL) also clinched their fourth consecutive series win. They remained one game behind Medford in the West Coast League South Division pennant race.

The reigning WCL Player of the Week, Kline tripled and scored in the third and then hit a 2-run homer in the fourth to cap a four-run rally that sent the Knights in front 8-0. He leads the league with five homers, one more than he hit in 54 league games in 2013. He also assumed the WCL lead with 19 RBIs.

Grant Melker singled twice, scored twice and stole a base, Kevin Farley had two hits and three runs and Marc Gallegos tripled, singled, scored and drove in four runs for the Knights. They have outscored the Falcons (5-10) 21-4 in the first two games of the series; Corvallis won Friday night's opener 9-3.

Jackson Lockwood struck out four and gave up three hits in five shutout innings in his first start for the win, his third in four decisions.

Melker had a hand in the Knights' first three runs. In the first, he walked, stole second, advanced to third on a ground out and scored on Gallegos's ground out to send Corvallis in front 1-0. In the third, his two-out single scored Tim Rausch and Logan Ice for a 3-0 advantage.

The Knights made it 4-0 in the third on Kline's triple and an RBI single by Scott Quinlan. A two-run triple by Gallegos, followed immediately by Kline's two-run homer, made it 8-0 in the fourth.

Corvallis added two runs in the fifth and two more in the seventh for the final total.

The series concludes at 1:05 p.m. Sunday at Goss Stadium. Jeremy Newton of the University of British Columbia (1-1, 4.15) is Kelowna's scheduled starter; Chris Bishop of Pacific Lutheran (0-0, 5.40) will go for the Knights.

Saturday's crowd of 1,337 raised the season attendance to 11,007 in nine openings. That's 13 more fans than through a corresponding number of home dates in 2013, when the Knights drew a team-record 43,529 fans.