Thursday, July 2, Corvallis, Ore. – Corvallis reliever Arlo Pendleton (Cal Poly) was dominant for…
Knights thrill sellout Fireworks Night mob
Friday, July 2, Corvallis, Ore. – The Knights delivered a stellar performance to blank Springfield 3-0, much to the pleasure of a sellout Fireworks Night crowd of 3,112 at Goss Stadium.
Four Corvallis (17-14, 14-14 WCL, 0-1 second half) pitchers stifled the Drifters on five hits. They combined for 15 strikeouts, permitted only two Drifters to reach third base and ended a two-game losing streak.
Incoming Cal Poly center fielder Max Medina (pictured, above) was the offensive star, going 3-for-4 with two triples, a run and an RBI. His run-scoring single put the Knights ahead 1-0 in the third, and he tripled and scored on a Maverek Russell (UCSB) sacrifice fly to score the team’s final run in the fifth.
Back-to-back ground-rule doubles by Zane Garvey (Western Oregon) and Trey Swygart (Portland) scored the second run in the fourth inning. Ethan Porter (Oregon State) added two hits.
Incoming Stanford freshman Bryce Hill extended the Knights string of impressive performances by their starting pitcher. He blanked the Drifters on three hits over four innings, with eight strikeouts.
Knights starters Hill, Colin Nowaczyk (Nebraska), Morgan Codron (Portland) and Matthew Sherwood (PLU) combined to allow just two earned runs over 17 innings in the last four games.
Reliever Jack Galanida followed Hill with 2.2 scoreless innings of his own. He left with the bases loaded and two outs in the seventh; Matthew Kosderka (Lower Columbia) got a strikeout to end the inning.
Kosderka added a scoreless eighth. Swygart then struck out the side on 14 pitches in the ninth to claim his second save.
Galanida got the pitching decision and stretched his scoreless streak to 8.1 innings over his last three appearances. Kosderka still has not allowed a run in 5.2 innings over five appearances.
The series resumes at 6:35 p.m. on July 4 and concludes at 5:05 p.m. on July 5. Incoming Oregon State lefty Neal Burtis (0-0, 81.00) will start for the Knights on July 4; UCSB righty Josh Jannicelli (0-1, 5.68) gets the baseball on July 5.
Springfield has not announced a projected starter for the final two games.
The crowd of 3,125 raised the season total to 24,443 in 16 home dates. That’s an average of 1,527 per outing.
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