Wise saves 5-3 win over Victoria for Lockwood.

Pitcher Jackson Lockwood (pictured) won his league-high seventh game as Corvallis edged Victoria 5-3 on Friday night in the series opener.

Dalton Kelly (UC Santa Barbara) and Marc Gallegos (Corban) hit solo homers for the Knights (30-14 all, 26-14 WCL) before 2,411 boisterous fans at Sports Traders Diamond at Royal Athletic Park in Victoria. Corvallis remained one game ahead of Bend in the South Division pennant race by winning for the 15th time in their last 19 league games.

A rising junior at Portland who was scheduled to start the rained-out West Coast League All-Star Game at Klamath Falls this past Monday, Lockwood (7-2) spaced five hits and had two strikeouts over seven innings. He threw 52 strikes in 78 pitches.

Kelly's homer in the first inning, his fourth, gave the Knights a quick 1-0 lead. Victoria (18-22 WCL) tied the game in the third but Gallegos smashed his second homer in the fourth to send Corvallis back on top 2-1.

Michael Lucarelli (Portland) and Tim Rausch (Western Oregon) added RBIs in the fifth and Kelly drove in another run in the seventh for a 5-1 advantage. Kelly has a homer, two triples, two doubles, seven RBIs and seven hits in his last four games and leads the Knights with a .354 average.

The HarbourCats scored twice in the eighth to draw within 5-3 and Wise entered after a leadoff walk brought the tying run to the plate in the last of the ninth. He got two quick outs, allowed a single to put runners at the corners, and then ended the game on a 4-3 groundout to Gallegos.

It was the second save for Wise, a rising sophomore lefty who played at Grand Canyon University in 2014. He has not allowed a run in 11.2 innings over eight appearances this season, all in relief.

The series resumes at 7:11 p.m. Saturday. Righty Angel Landazuri (3-0, 2.18) of UC Riverside, the WCL's current Player of the Week, will start for the Knights; Victoria's starter is TBA.