Falcons swept in ‘Knight’ to forget

The Kelowna Falcon offence came back to life too late as the club suffered its fifth straight loss, a 9-5 result to the Corvallis Knights on Sunday night at Elks Stadium.

Zak Taylor collected two doubles, four hits and was on base five times while Briley Knight drove in four runs in the Corvallis victory. The Knights hit a pair of home runs and compiled 13 hits as a team to sweep the Falcons in the season series.

The Knights opened the scoring in the game with a bang in the top half of the first inning, scoring twice to take an early lead.

Kelowna responded in the third as newcomer Adam Stevens led off the inning with a walk followed by a Garret Kelly single. Matt Voelzke brought in a run with a single of his own for his 22nd RBI of the season to cut the deficit to 5-1.

But Beau Philip’s leadoff solo home run pushed the Knights’ lead to 6-1.

Two more Knights runs came across in the fifth inning, which included three doubles from Corvallis.

Corvallis extended its lead in the eighth inning with Briley Knight’s fourth RBI of the night on a sacrifice fly. A wild pitch in the bottom half of the inning gave Kelowna its second run of the game to make the score 9-2 after seven innings of play.

The Falcons offence chipped away at the lead in the eighth inning as Dylan Orick one-hopped the wall for a ground-rule double and his fourth RBI of the season before Matt Land brought in a pair in the ninth inning with a single.

Bygum started the game for Kelowna, going 2 2/3 innings and surrendering five runs in the loss. Kolby Somers earned the win for Corvallis, pitching five innings and giving up just one run on three hits.

The Falcons (23-21) have a day off before starting a 10-game, nine-night stretch to end the West Coast League season as they head to Washington to take on the Walla Walla Sweets (23-22) beginning at 6:35 p.m.

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