Knights beat BlueJackets 4-1 at Goss before a Wednesday night crowd of 996.

Starter Matt Andriese (pictured) of UC Riverside tossed 5 innings and allowed only one run to improve his record to 6-0.

UCR pitcher Matt Andriese was solid once again, striking out five in five innings of work as the right-hander from Redlands, California earned his fifth WCL win (and sixth overall) vs. no defeats as the Knights beat Kitsap 4-1.

Corvallis got on the board first as Doug Cherry of Washington reached safely on an infield single. After moving to second on a sac bunt by Oregon's Josh Hogan, Cherry would score on a single to center by Oregon State-bound Taylor Ard.

The Knights added two more in the second.

Oregon State's Brent Warren reached on an infield single and advanced to second on a single to center by catcher Andrew Susac, a frosh-to be at Oregon State. Then San Diego State centerfielder Pat Colwell laid down a perfect sacrifice bunt, which was thrown away by Kitsap starter Trey Watt allowing Warren to score, Susac to advance to third and Colwell reach second base.

Cherry knocked in the inning's second run on a fielder's choice ground ball that ended in a collision between Watt and Kitsap first baseman Bucky Aona.

"The run support was good," Andriese said. "Four runs is more than enough, especially with wood bats."

Andriese surrendered a rare run in the fourth when his college teammate Andrew Mistone of UC Riverside singled to left, advanced to second on a ground out, moved to third on a deep fly to center and scored on a single to left by Andy Bethel of UW.

"I had trouble locating the fastball today a little bit," Andriese said. "I had to resort to my off-speed pitches a little bit, but I threw them for strikes."

In the bottom of the fifth, Corvallis scored its fourth and final run on a two-out triple by DJ Gentile of Cal Poly.

"[Tonight showed] the approach we've had all year," Susac said. "When Richie is not going 5-for-5, we have to spray balls, get clutch hits and drive in runs."

The Corvallis bullpen shutdown the Jackets over the game's final four frames.

Eric Young of Riverside CC blanked Kitsap in the 6th and 7th innings, and Eric LeBaron of San Jose State threw a scoreless eighth inning.

Trevor Smith of Linn-Benton CC closed things retiring the Kitsap in order in the ninth to record his first save of the summer.

Warren went 2-for-4 with two infield singles and a run scored. And Susac went 2-for-3 for the night.

"I did some work the past couple of days when we had off-days and felt alot better at the plate with my approach," Susac said.

"We had good defense and the relievers put up zeroes," Andriese said. "It's good, we're on our way to the playoffs."

Kitsap and Corvallis wrap their two-game series Thursday night at Goss Stadium.

With the win, Corvallis improved to 43-10 overall and 34-10 in the WCL, and clinched home field advantage for the postseason. Corvallis and Wenatchee both have 4 regular season games remaining and the Knights are 4 games ahead of the Sox, and Corvallis won its series with Wenatchee earlier this summer.

Bend clinched second place in the WCL West tonight by beating Bellingham at Joe Martin Stadium.

The Elks and Knights will open their best-of-three West Divisional Series Tuesday, August 11th at Vince Genna Stadium in Bend. Game two is slated for Goss Stadium on Wednesday, August 12.

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