Andriese breaks out of slump, Knights beat Wenatchee 11-7.

Outfielder David Andriese (pictured) doubled, singled and collected four RBIs to lead Corvallis over the Sox.

Andriese was hitting an uncharacteristic .146 entering Friday night and was at .150 (3-20) in his previous five games. However, his two-run single capped a five-run fifth, and he ripped a two-run double to cap a four-run, two-out winning rally in the eighth.

He also sent Wenatchee right fielder Ryan Barnes to the base of the wall just in front of the scoreboard on a long fly out leading off the eighth inning. He raised his average 32 points to .178, and took over the team lead with 11 RBIs.

"I was trying to get pitch to handle and drive in some runs, and hopefully get a W," the UC Riverside sophomore-to-be said after accomplishing both objectives.

The 11 runs were a season-high for Corvallis, whose previous best came in a 7-0 victory at Bend on June 11. The Knights had scored just one run in three of their previous four games and did not have an RBI base hit in that span, a streak Andriese ended in the fifth with a hard single up the middle to send the Knights on top 6-4.

"This was a turnaround game," said Andriese, who hit .307 for the Highlanders this past spring, and a productive .250 (13 RBIs in 80 at-bats) for the Knights in 2010. "We were struggling, but we want to put it behind us and focus on the next couple of games."

The Knights (15-8 overall, 14-8 WCL) lengthened their West Division lead to 1.5 games over idle Kitsap. The AppleSox (19-4) lost for the second time in three games for the first time this summer but they remain a comfortable 10 games ahead of Bellingham atop the East Division.

Shortstop Alex Foulon had three singles, scored three times, and started the winning outburst in the eighth with a two-out single. He then was picked off, but beat the throw to second base for a steal and subsequently hustled safely home from there on an error on Jimmy Allen's chopper up the middle.

The next two batters reached and David Armendariz made it 9-7 with an RBI single. Andriese followed with his double into the right-field corner. Allen and Kramer Scott each drove in two runs each; Allen scored twice and leadoff hitter Trent Oleszczuk scored twice and reached safely three times.

Reliever Chris Johnson allowed one run and had three strikeouts over the final three innings for his second victory of the summer.

The series concludes at 6:40 p.m. Saturday, the final regular-season matchup between the perennial WCL powers. Owen Jones (3-0, 1.56) starts for Wenatchee, opposed by emergency starter Mark Trentacosta (2-0, 0.66).

Trentacosta has been the Knights' closer so far this season and has four saves. He's filling in for Adam Duke, as coach Brooke Knight elected on Friday to alter his projected rotation.

Saturday is Pioneer Telephone Military Appreciation Night, sponsored by KRKT. The homestand concludes at 7:15 p.m. Sunday with the annual OSU Federal Fireworks Night game against Bend.

The Linn Benton Tractor Cowbell Night game drew a crowd of 1,274, the Knights' eighth above 1,000 in 11 dates. They have now drawn 13,296 fans this summer and have already surpassed the team's 2007 season total (12,729), the Knights' first summer in Corvallis.