About the Knights

1990 - 1991 - 1992 - 1993 - 1994 - 1995 - 1996 - 1997 - 1998 - 1999
2000 - 2001 - 2002 - 2003 - 2004 - 2005 - 2006 - 2007 - 2008 - 2009

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The Knights were founded in 1990. With the support of a wonderful primary sponsor, Penny Knight, the team has grown considerably over the years. After starting play in a Beaverton, Oregon recreational baseball league, the Aloha Knights settled into the Portland City League in 1994. In 1999, the club left the City League and joined the Northwest's premier semi-pro circuit - the Pacific International League (PIL). The club's PIL era concluded with a summer national championship as the Knights won the 70th NBC World Series in Wichita, Kansas.

The Knights 2004 NBC World Series championship culminated a great run in the PIL, which saw the club post the league's top six-year mark with a 117-67 league record. In 2005, the Knights joined forces with the Bend Elks, Wenatchee AppleSox, Bellingham Bells, Kelowna Falcons, Spokane RiverHawks and expansion Kitsap BlueJackets to form the West Coast Collegiate Baseball League for college-eligible players only. The nine-team league (Moses Lake was added in 2006 and Cowlitz and Walla Walla in 2010 while Spokane went inactive following the 2009 season), now named the West Coast League, is entering its sixth season with the Knights leading the West's premier summer college wood-bat league in total wins after five years with 148 victories.

The Aloha Knights are now the Corvallis Knights as the team relocated from Gresham, Oregon to Corvallis, Oregon in 2007. The team plays at Goss Stadium at Coleman Field - the home of the 2006 & 2007 national champion Oregon State Beavers.

The Corvallis Knights captured its first West Coast League (WCL) title in only its second season at Goss Stadium. In its inaugural Corvallis season, the Knights won the WCL West and the league's West Divisional Playoff Series.

Corvallis repeated as West Division champions in 2008, won its Divisional Playoff Series and then captured its first West Coast League crown by sweeping the Wenatchee AppleSox in the WCL Championship Series 2 games to 0. Corvallis set new franchise attendance marks by drawing a total of 17,929 fans for an average attendance of 640 that included a team record single-game crowd of 1,632 on July 3, 2008.

All the aforementioned attendance marks were shattered in 2009 as the Knights drew 30,064 fans for an average of 911 per game in the club's third season in the Mid-Valley. Corvallis also set a new WCL and Goss Stadium single-game attendance record with a crowd of 3,506 on July 3, 2009.

On the diamond, the Knights won their third straight WCL West Division title, won another West Divisional Series and appeared in its third consecutive WCL Championship Series. However, Corvallis was thwarted in its repeat quest as Wenatchee swept the Knights to earn the AppleSox third WCL crown.

Corvallis set a new West Coast League single-season wins record with 38, breaking its 2008 mark of 31, as the Knights posted the league's best record at 38-10 and featured the league's lowest team ERA (2.22) and highest team fielding percentage (.975) - both new WCL single-season team records.

Over twenty years of competition, the club has registered a .699 overall winning percentage and won several championships including the granddaddy of them all - the semi-pro NBC World Series.

Over two decades, Knights' rosters have featured 96 players who went on to sign with MLB clubs. 34 ex-Knights are currently active affiliated pros including 4 big leaguers.

The Knights followed its summer national championship season with an impressive inaugural showing in the West Coast League. The 2005 team posted a 27-9 league mark, which was good for second place. During the pre-season, Aloha swept a three-game series vs. the Humboldt Crabs at Arcata Baseball Park and in the postseason the Knights defended its NBC World Series title by extending its NBC win streak to 10 before eventually losing in the winner's bracket semi-finals and subsequent quarterfinals to finish in 4th place. The sweep of the Crabs carried great significance in that Humboldt had never been swept in its glorious 61-year history.

In 2004, the Knights won its third annual All-American Invitational for the first time to earn a berth in the NBC World Series. At the Series, the Knights went 7-0 to become the first undefeated NBC champion since Team USA in 1995 and the first NBC champ from Oregon since 1958. In twenty years of play, the club has compiled a 729-314 record, three WCL West titles, three Portland City League championships, three PIL South titles, a Kamloops International Baseball Tournament championship and a West Coast League crown.

The squad is made up of collegiate players primarily from the West Coast.