Knights sweep Rogues, to meet ASox in finals.

Lefty Elliot Surrey (pictured) allowed one run over seven innings and the Knights clinched a spot in the WCL finals by defeating Medford 7-3 on Wednesday.

The Knights (44-17 all) thus swept the best-of-3 South Division playoff and stretched their winning streak to 12 consecutive games overall. The Knights won in Medford on Monday in Game 1.

Corvallis will face Wenatchee in the best-of-3 West Coast League Championship Series, starting Saturday night in Wenatchee. Game 2 is set for 6:40 p.m. Monday at Goss Stadium; Game 3, if necessary, will be at 6:40 p.m. Tuesday at Goss.

The Knights have advanced to the WCL finals in six of their seven summers since moving to Corvallis for the 2007 season; their lone miss was 2010. They are 2-3 in WCL finals, with titles in 2008 and 2011.

Corvallis and Wenatchee are familiar finals foes, having met in the 2008, 2009 and 2012 Championship Series. Wenatchee won in 2009 and 2012; Corvallis prevailed in 2008.

Wenatchee defeated Walla Walla 8-4 on Tuesday and 6-2 on Wednesday to sweep the North Division playoffs. Walla Walla won the regular-season North Division title by two games.

"I'm really excited, I've never played for a championship," Corvallis reliever Sean Eberhardt said. "It's a great group of guys to experience this with. I plan on bringing a ring back."

Added outfielder Joe Duffin: "I would love to get some hardware. It's been a great experience playing summer ball with these guys. We are a family now. I can't wait to go win a championship with them."

A rising sophomore-to-be at UC Irvine, Surrey got off to a rough start as he gave up three singles and a run in the first inning. He settled down after that, however, spaced four hits over the next six innings, stranded four runners in scoring position and left after seven innings with a 5-1 lead.

Surrey had two strikeouts and got 11 ground-ball outs. He has five wins and a no-decision in his last six starts and has allowed just six earned runs in 41.2 innings, a sparkling 1.30 ERA.

The Knights were hitless through four innings and trailed 1-0 when shortstop Mike Lucarelli of Portland led off the fifth with a double off the left-field wall. He was balked to third and scored on Blake Drake's sac fly to tie the game 1-1.

Corvallis went ahead 2-1 in the sixth on a single by Kevin Kline of Dixie State, a sacrifice and an RBI single by Kavin Keyes of OSU. They broke it open in the seventh with three runs on Peter Van Gansen's sac fly and Kline's 2-run single.

Reliever Chris Bishop of PLU allowed a two-run homer to Jerad Casper of OSU in the eighth that drew the Rogues to within 5-3. He then retired six of the next seven batters to finish the sweep.

Corvallis scored two key insurance runs in the eighth. Keyes blasted a homer high over the left-field fence and just inside the foul pole leading off to send the Knights back up 6-3. Peter Van Gansen's single drove in a second insurance run to restore the four-run lead heading into the ninth.

Van Gansen drove in six runs in the series. Keys was 6-for-8 with a homer, double, two runs and two RBIs and Drake drove in three runs.

The crowd of 1,167 raised the season total to 42,305, the second-highest in franchise history and just 105 fans short of the all-time high of 42,447, set in 2011. Corvallis will set a record on Monday when it hosts Wenatchee in Game 2 of the Championship Series.