Corvallis bats warm up in heat of Moses Lake, even series, rout Pirates 11-1.

Jon Berger (pictured) of San Diego State tossed 6 shutout innings to earn the win. The junior from Las Vegas, Nevada retired 13 straight batters from the first through fifth innings. Berger walked one, gave up two hits and struck out 6 to record his second win of the season.

The Knights' bats warmed up in the heat of Central Washington Friday night as Corvallis scored in each of the first five innings and banged out 17 hits.

Junior-to be Logan Lotti of Oregon State doubled in the third and singled in the fifth, sixth, seventh and ninth innings. The right-handed hitter from Chico, California went 5 for 6 with two runs scored and a RBI.

Billy Clontz's pinch-hit bases loaded clearing double in the fifth gave Corvallis a 7-0 lead. Clontz went 2 for 3. The Corvallis native leads the Knights in RBI with 12.

Junior outfielder Adam Melker of Cal Poly reached base in all three of his plate appearances. Melker doubled, singled, walked and scored 3 times.

Doug Cherry of University of Washington continued to swing the Knights' hottest bat on the club's first extended WCCBL road trip as the junior from Redmond, Washington went 2 for 5 and also delivered a bases loaded clearing double in the 7th-inning.

Junior-to be right-hander Geoff Nichols of University of Oregon pitched a scoreless ninth recording all three outs on strikeouts.

With the win, the Knights snap a three-game losing streak, improve their League mark to 8-6 and force a rubber game Saturday night in Moses Lake.

This will be the Knights' fourth rubber game of the young WCCBL season. Corvallis is 1-2 in rubber games.

Corvallis opened the season with a three-game sweep at Kitsap.

You can listen to tomorrow night's contest on 990 AM The Legend.

Mike Parker, the voice of the Knights, calls all the action.

Game time is 7:30 pm.

Eddie Orozco of UC Riverside is the Knights' probable starter.