In American Athletic Conference baseball action on Friday, April 16, UCF, Cincinnati and Tulane all picked up doubleheader sweeps.

Friday, April 16
Tulane 6, Wichita State 3 (Game 1) - Box Score
Tulane 3, Wichita State 2 (Game 2) - Box Score
Cincinnati 10, Memphis 6 (Game 1) - Box Score
Cincinnati 11, Memphis 3 (Game 2) - Box Score
UCF 6, USF 0 (Game 1) - Box Score
UCF 5, USF 2 (Game 2) - Box Score

Tulane 6, Wichita State 3 (Game 1) - Box Score
NEW ORLEANS – The Tulane University baseball team defeated Wichita State, 6-3, Friday morning inside Greer Field at Turchin Stadium for its fourth straight home win. Tulane's win over WSU snapped the Shockers' seven-game winning streak.
 
The Green Wave recorded six runs on eight hits. The pitching staff stepped up to only allow the Shockers three runs on seven hits, while striking out 12 batters and only giving up three walks. Junior Frankie Niemann led the Green Wave at the plate with two doubles, two runs scored and an RBI. Sophomore Collin Burns registered two hits and an RBI to extend his hitting streak to 11 games.

Junior Braden Olthoff took the win with 5.1 innings pitched, three earned runs, four hits and 10 strikeouts. After Olthoff left the game with runners on second and third, Baumgardt made the heads up play to get the lead runner at home on a ground ball. Junior left-handed pitcher Justin Campbell then got the last out to keep the Green Wave up 6-3 headed to the bottom of the sixth.
 
The Olive and Blue were able to hold the Shockers scoreless the rest of the way and take the win. The Shockers' Preston Snavely took the loss with 4.2 innings pitched, six hits and four earned runs.

Tulane 3, Wichita State 2 (Game 2) - Box Score
NEW ORLEANS – The Tulane University baseball team swept the doubleheader with Wichita State with a 3-2 victory over the Shockers Friday night inside Greer Field at Turchin Stadium.
 
Freshman Bennett Lee led the Green Wave at the plate with two hits and an RBI.
 
Junior left-handed pitcher Jack Aldrich took the win for the Green Wave with six innings pitched, one earned run, five hits and six strikeouts. Senior Keagan Gillies took the save with three innings pitched, one hit and seven strikeouts.
 
Sophomore Collin Burns led off the bottom of the first with a double to extend his hitting streak to 12 straight games. He later scored on a single to left from freshman Bennett Lee to give the Green Wave an early 1-0 lead.
 
After freshman Simon Baumgardt reached on an HBP, sophomore Jared Hart put down a bunt and an error moved both runners to second and third. Burns then sent a hard ground ball to second and reached on the second error of the inning by the Shockers and both runners scored to give Tulane the 3-0 lead.

Cincinnati 10, Memphis 6 (Game 1) - Box Score
MEMPHIS, TENN. – The University of Cincinnati baseball team beat Memphis 10-6 in an American Athletic Conference series opener on Friday at FedExPark.
 
Cincinnati (15-16, 4-6 AAC) took a 2-1 lead in the second and didn't look back, getting a pitching gem from starter Garrett Schoenle (3-1) and home runs from Cole Harting and Griffin Merritt in the win. 
 
UC got on the board with some timely two-out hitting in the second as Joe Powell belted an RBI single to left which scored Paul Komistek and Ryan Nicholson. 
 
The Bearcats added three more in the fifth with a sac fly by Merritt, Jace Mercer scoring on a wild pitch and an RBI single by Komistek.
 
Harting hit his eighth round tripper of the season to left field in the sixth which scored Powell who had walked to lead off the frame. Harting scored two runs and walked twice.
 
Merritt went the opposite way in the seventh, clearing the fence in right to score Nicholson who led off the inning with a single. It was Merritt's fifth home run of the campaign. He finished 2-for-4 with 3 RBIs.

Cincinnati 11, Memphis 3 (Game 2) - Box Score
MEMPHIS, TENN. – Zach Segal pitched eight solid innings and the University of Cincinnati baseball team scored seven runs in the top of the fifth inning to win the nightcap of a series-opening doubleheader at Memphis, 11-3, in American Athletic Conference action on Friday at FedExPark.
 
Cincinnati (16-16, 5-6 AAC) trailed 2-0 early but plated six runs in the fifth before an out was recorded to break things open. Ryan Nicholson started the inning off with a walk and the Bearcats had six straight hits with RBI efforts on singles by Jake Hansen and Cole Harting, a ground-rule double by Joey Bellini and a sac fly by Eric Santiago.
 
Nicholson batted a second time in the frame and belted an RBI single of his own to center field. He finished 3-for-3 with two runs scored and two walks.
 
Bellini added a solo home run in the eighth and finished with two hits, two runs scored and a walk to go with his 3 RBIs.
 
Segal (2-3) put together the longest outing of his collegiate career, going 8.0 innings, giving up three runs on four hits with five strikeouts. Memphis (11-21, 1-9 AAC) scored all three runs because of a pair of long balls off the bat of Hunter Goodman. He had a two-run shot to left in the third and a solo homer in the eighth.
 
UCF 6, USF 0 (Game 1) - Box Score
UCF 5, USF 2 (Game 2) - Box Score
Orlando, Fla. – The UCF baseball team swept a doubleheader against South Florida to open the four-game series on Friday, as the Knights move one step closer to clinching the all-sport War on I-4 season series. The Black & Gold shutout South Florida in game one, 6-0, and completed the doubleheader sweep with a 5-2 win in game two.

UCF pitching was spectacular in the first game of the day; Colton Gordon threw seven scoreless innings fanning seven Bulls. Zack Hunsicker then pitched two scoreless innings to seal the victory for the Knights.
 
South Florida starter Jack Jasiak held the UCF bats in check for the first three innings. In the fourth innings, that would change, however. Alex Freeland took a 2-2 pitch to deep right-center field for his fourth of the year, giving the Knights a 1-0 lead. The very next batter, Josh Crouch, hit the ball to the exact same spot as Freeland to extending the lead to 2-0. Ben McCabe drove in another run in the fifth, adding to the UCF lead.
 
Both teams were held in check for the next two innings until Pablo Ruiz came up in the eighth inning with two runners on. He took an 0-1 pitch to deep left field to give the Knights a 6-0 lead.
 
Zack Hunsicker closed the game out in the 9th with a double play to end the game.
 
Game 2 
The Knights got going early, scoring one on a John Montes single in the second that plated Andrew Brait in the 2nd.  The following inning, UCF would add three more runs on a two-RBI single by Alex Freeland then an RBI single by Pablo Ruiz, making the score 3-0.
 
The Bulls would get one back off of starter Kenny Serwa in the 4th, making it a 3-1 game. Serwa pitched four innings giving up one earned run and striking out four which was good enough for his first win this season.
 
South Florida would add another run in the 6th inning on a ground out, but that would be the last run they'd score on the day.
 
Montes drove in another run on a sacrifice fly that scored Brait to pad the UCF lead.
 
The UCF bullpen was lights out. Billy McKay, Hunter Patteson, and David Litchfield pitched a combined five innings of one-run ball, striking out seven Bulls en route to the victory.