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Published on October 11, 2016 under West Coast League (WCL)
Corvallis Knights News Release


The Corvallis Knights captured their fourth West Coast League title this past summer by beating Bellingham 2 games to 1 .

Now, the offseason is in full swing. We've started signing players, and are planning for the 2017 season, as we aim to defend our championship!

Once again, congratulations to the team and coaching staff for a job well done! And a big thank you to our fans, who enabled us to set franchise records for total attendance (53,703) and per-game average (1,534).

WCL championship t-shirts now on sale!

To order, email Bre Miller at bre.miller@corvallisknights.com or call Bre at 541-752-5656. Get your champions t-shirt for only $20.

Goodman, Crow, Howell, Fricke, Fox to return in 2017

Pitchers Grant Goodman (San Francisco), Louis Crow (San Diego), Tanner Howell (Dixie State), Jacob Fricke (Western Oregon) and Ty Fox (Sacramento State) will return to the Knights in 2017.

Goodman was a key contributor on our 2016 WCL championship club. He went 2-0 with a 1.73 ERA in 12 appearances (nine starts), with 53 strikeouts in 41.2 innings. He also earned honorable-mention all-WCL honors.

Crow was 0-0, 3.17 in 5.2 innings in five games, with four strikeouts. He was selected in the 16th round of the 2016 MLB June draft by Milwaukee, and was rated as the WCL's No. 12 prospect by Perfect Game.

Howell led Corvallis in WCL appearances with 18 while going 2-2 with a 4.71 ERA.

Fricke led the Knights in innings pitched with 58 2/3 and was named to the all-WCL honorable mention team.

Fox made three early appearances for Corvallis in 2016 (1-0, 1.50).

Eight newcomers to join club in 2017

The Knights have signed catcher Jace Duty of Chemeketa Community College in Salem, a native of Newport, Ore.; pitcher Darren Nelson, a senior at Granite Bay High School in Granite Bay, Calif., who will play at Cal Poly in 2017-18; freshman pitcher Trenton Toplikar of UC Riverside; frosh pitcher Jack Dashwood and infielder Andrew Martinez of UC Santa Barbara; freshman pitcher Zak Herbers of Nevada-Reno; frosh center fielder Ty Villaroma of San Francisco and freshman pitcher Connor Redmond of Cal Poly.

Intern Melissa Sullivan named Knights Staff Member of the Year

GM Bre Miller announced the team's staff awards last week. Corvallis Knights statistician Melissa Sullivan of Oregon State earned Staff Member of the Year honors. To read up on all the awards, click here.

Corvallis welcomes back Eric Bober, bolsters front office

Eric Bober returned to the Corvallis Knights as he started his new position with the club yesterday. He is the team's new Director of Tickets and Operations. (read more)

Intern application

We are now accepting internship applications for the 2016-17 school year! The internship roles will begin in December and continue through the end of August 2017. The deadline for applications is November 15th. For more information or to apply, click here.

Wells named new coach at Skagit Valley JC

We had a brief mention of alum Braden Wells (2007) hiring as the new head coach at Skagit Valley (Wash.) College in Newsletter 205. Here is more on that story.

Braden was a volunteer assistant coach at Washington State in 2016 after serving as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at Concordia University from 2013-15.

A native of Glendale, Ariz., Braden played at OSU in 2007 and 2008 and began his coaching career as an OSU undergraduate assistant in 2009. He then was a graduate assistant at Grand Canyon in 2011-12 before going to Concordia.

Braden played two seasons at Dixie State Junior College in Utah before going to OSU. He was a 32nd-round draft pick by the Los Angeles Angels in 2005 and earned first-team all-region honors as sophomore in 2006. He graduated from Brophy Prep High School in Glendale, Ariz.

He was a starter on the very first Corvallis Knights team, which lost 2-0 to Moses Lake in the West Coast League Championship Series.

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Alumni watch. Catcher Rocky Gale (2007, 2009) and outfielder Nick Torres (2012) were members of PCL champion El Paso, who lost in the triple-A championship game 3-1 to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. El Paso is San Diego's affiliate in the triple-A Pacific Coast League.

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