Knights top Wenatchee 6-2, force Game 3.

Greg Mahle (pictured) of UC Santa Barbara pitched 5 2/3 innings and had a key RBI single to lead the Knights as Corvallis forced a Game 3 in the WCL Championship Series.

The final game of the summer will be played at 7:05 p.m. Saturday at Paul Thomas Sr. Stadium in Wenatchee. The scheduled starters are righty Trevor Frank (2-1, 0.47 all games) of UC Riverside for the Knights and lefty Derek Callahan of Gonzaga for the AppleSox.

Mahle wasn't as sharp as in his previous appearance, a no-hitter against Cowlitz on Aug. 3. But he battled throughout, allowed just two runs on five hits and consistently made big pitches to escape trouble.

Taylor Starr of OSU relieved Mahle with two on and two outs in the sixth, and retired the side on a grounder to third in the seventh after balking the Sox runners on first and second up a base. He allowed two hits and struck out two in 2.1 innings.

Corvallis High native Aaron Corwin closed out the game with a six-pitch, shutout ninth inning.

After trailing for the first 11 innings of the series, the Knights scored twice in the third inning to erase a 1-0 deficit on RBI singles by Dane Lund of Mt. Hood CC and Nick Torres of Cal Poly. A third run crossed in the fourth on an RBI groundout by Chris Rabago of UC Irvine.

Corvallis added two more in the seventh to up their lead to 5-2. Mahle drove in the fourth run with a single after fouling off four two-strike pitches, and the fifth scored on an error. Another error and Rabago�s sacrifice fly added the sixth run in the eighth.

The defensive woes that bit the Knights in a 9-8 loss on Wednesday in Game 1 bit the AppleSox instead on Friday. They made seven errors and three of the Knights runs were unearned.

It's the first WCL Championship Series Game 3 in Knights history. They swept Wenatchee in 2008 and Walla Walla in 2011l and were swept by Moses Lake in 2007 and Wenatchee in 2010, in their previous Championship Series appearances.