American Conference/Ben Solomon

Baseball

Tulane Moves On To Sunday With Dominant Win at Baton Rouge Regional

One team picked up an emphatic win in an elimination game Saturday while one fell for the first time in regional play and another had its season come to a close.

Tulane kept its season alive and tied its season-high in runs scored with a 15-3 win over Lehigh in an elimination game at the Baton Rouge Regional. 1B Tyler Wilson drove in four runs for the Green Wave and C Jake Rogers added three as Tulane improved to 35-24. The game featured a rain delay of three hours and 16 minutes in the fifth inning. The Green Wave will face the loser of Saturday night’s game between No. 1/1 LSU and UNCW Sunday at 4 p.m. ET.
 
USF fell 8-2 to No. 3/3 Florida in the Gainesville regional. C Levi Borders drove in the lone run for the Bulls, who dropped to 34-25-1. USF will square off with No. 21 Florida Atlantic in an elimination game Sunday at Noon on ESPN3.
 
No. 23/25 East Carolina’s season concluded with a 2-0 defeat at the hands of FIU in the Coral Gables Regional. The game was scoreless into the eighth inning before the Panthers pushed across a pair of runs for the victory. CF Garrett Brooks had three of the seven hits for the Pirates, who finished the year at 40-22 with the American Athletic Conference tournament championship.
 
Houston’s game against Louisiana-Lafayette was postponed due to heavy rain and localized flooding in the area around Cougar Field. The Cougars and Ragin’ Cajuns are slated to play at 4 p.m. ET Sunday on ESPN3.