Farris delivers walk-off single in win over Elks.

Michael Farris ended an agonizing 0-for-31 slump by singling home the winning run in the 11th inning to give Corvallis a 5-4 walk-off win that evened their series with Bend.

Farris (UC Riverside) hammered a 2-2 pitch from reliever Tate Budnick off the left-center fence on one hop with one out in the 11th to score Matt Kelly with the winning run. Kelly (Portland) led off with a single, stole second and was sacrificed to third, setting up Farris's game-ending heroics.

"I was just trying to put the ball in play and make hard contact and finally one fell at the right time," Farris said. "We had the squeeze early in the at bat.

"Coach [Brooke Knight] took the squeeze off. It gave me the confidence that he had the confidence in me to get the job done."

The leading home-run hitter (5) for the Knights in 2015, Farris's last hit was a two-run single in a 6-4 win at Walla Walla on July 9. He then went ice-cold for 10 games until his big hit on Wednesday, with only one RBI in that span.

"I think it was all mental," he said. "I was trying to do too much at the plate and had to go back to my old approach."

The Knights (32-19 overall, 25-19 WCL, 7-10 second half) thus evened the series 1-1 with the comeback triumph. Bend, who rallied with two runs in the eighth to take Tuesday's series opener 3-2, fell to 8-12 in the second half and 19-28 overall.

Corvallis DH Roman Garcia extended his hitting streak to 11 games and drove in two runs. Cody Hawken (Portland) doubled, singled and scored and Kelly doubled, singled, scored and drove in a run.

Another Pilot, right-hander Cameron Richman, closed the Elks out with three scoreless innings and earned the victory. He retired nine batters in a row after walking the first two he faced in the ninth inning, three by strikeout.

Hawken doubled and scored in the fifth to give the Knights a 1-0 lead. They scored again in the sixth on Kelly's sacrifice fly, but the Elks capitalized on three errors and two walks in the seventh to score four times for a 4-2 advantage.

However, the Knights rallied themselves in the eighth and knotted the score at 4-4 on Garcia's RBI single and a run-scoring balk. They left a runner at third in the eighth and left the bases loaded in the ninth before finally breaking through in the 11th.

The series concludes at 6:40 p.m. Thursday. San Francisco righty Grant Goodman (0-0, 2.48) gets the ball for the Knights, opposed by Chemeketa CC righty Kris Jackson (4-2, 2.22).

It is a Block 15 Thursday, and Reusable Grocery Bag Tote Bag Night, presented by Barker Uerlings Insurance. The first 250 fans receive a free tote bag; adult beverages and hot dogs are priced at $2.

Corvallis then plays at Kitsap on Friday through Sunday. Its final home series of the regular season is Aug. 2-4 against Gresham.