The second half of the West Coast League baseball season has only just begun but already the Victoria HarbourCats find themselves in a serious hole at 0-3.
The Corvallis Knights swept the three-game series against Victoria with a 10-2 victory Monday night in Oregon.
The Knights (3-0 in second half and 17-11 overall) defeated the HarbourCats 9-8 on Saturday at Goss Stadium in the clubs鈥� first meeting since the 2017 WCL final, won by Corvallis for its fifth league title.
The Monday blowout dropped Victoria to 14-16 overall.
The Knights scored three runs in the bottom of the second, fourth and sixth innings to take a 9-0 lead. Victoria batters could not solve six-foot-four Corvallis starter Landen Bourassa, a Canadian from Lethbridge who is an NCAA Div. 1 senior for the University of San Francisco Dons, who tossed a two-hitter over six complete innings with seven strikeouts.
Victoria鈥檚 runs came on a two-RBI single from freshman Caleb Ricketts out of the University of San Diego.
The second-half champion will meet the first-half champion Bellingham Bells in the North Division best-of-three playoff final. If the Bells also win the second-half crown, then the team with the next-best overall record will earn the second divisional playoff berth.
The 鈥機ats open a three-game set against the Bend Elks tonight at Wilson鈥檚 Group Stadium at Royal Athletic Park. 鈥� sa国际传媒
