East Carolina took over first place in the American Athletic Conference baseball standings after earning a series win over Tulane in action on Sunday, May 9.

Sunday, May 9
Wichita State 7, UCF 6 - Box Score
East Carolina 9, Tulane 1 - Box Score
Cincinnati 10, Houston 3 - Box Score

Wichita State 7, UCF 6 - Box Score
ORLANDO – Corrigan Bartlett hit a go-ahead sacrifice fly in the top of the ninth to lift Wichita State to a 7-6, come-from-behind win at UCF in the series finale of a four-game American Athletic Conference series Sunday, May 9, at John Euliano Park.
 
With the victory, the Shockers take three of four games from the Knights and improve to 25-18 overall and 13-10 in The American, while UCF falls to 23-25 on the season and 13-11 in conference action.
 
Bartlett went 2-for-4 with a homer and three RBI, while Seth Stroh went 2-for-3, including a home run, and Hunter Gibson and Paxton Wallace each had a pair of hits, pacing Wichita State at the plate.
 
WSU reliever Aaron Haase (1-1) earned the win on the mound after throwing two scoreless innings and allowing just one hit with no walks and three strikeouts.

East Carolina 9, Tulane 1 - Box Score
GREENVILLE, N.C. – Thomas Francisco hit two a pair of home runs and drove in three helping No. 13 East Carolina to a 9-1 series win over No. 22 Tulane Sunday afternoon at Lewis Field inside Clark-LeClair Stadium in American Athletic Conference play. With the win, the Pirates improve to 33-10 overall and 15-5 in league action while the Green Wave dropped to 25-17 and 14-5.
 
In a battle of the top two teams in The American, the Pirates used the long ball and got timely pitching to retake the top spot in the league standings by a half game. ECU's offense pounded out nine hits and used nine pitchers to secure its eighth weekend series of win of the season and close out with a 27-4 home record.
 
ECU wasted little time in getting on the scoreboard scoring in the first inning for a 1-0 lead. Connor Norby walked to start the frame extending his on-base streak to 50 games. After swiping his 12th base of the season and moving to third on a Bennett Lee throwing error, Francisco singled through the left side for the game's first run and the Pirates never looked back.
 
Carson Whisenhunt (5-0) earned the win in his first start since April 9th working three scoreless frames on a predetermined pitch count. The lefty gave up one hit, walked one and struck out three on the afternoon. The Pirates turned to its bullpen in the fourth and closed the day using seven arms in relief. They got pitching efforts from A.J. Wilson (0.1 IP, 1 R), Danny Beal (0.0 IP), Josh Grosz (0.2 IP, 1 K), Nick Logusch (0.2 IP, 1 BB), Carter Spivey (2.1 IP, 2 Ks), Cam Colmore (1.2 IP) and Matt Bridges (0.1 IP).
 
Tyler Hoffman (4-2) suffered the loss for Tulane giving up six runs (five earned) on six hits with a pair of walks and four punch outs in 4.2 innings. Zach Devito tosses the final 3.1 innings allowing three runs (two earned) on three hits with three free passes and one strikeout.

Cincinnati 10, Houston 3 - Box Score
HOUSTON – A three-run fourth inning broke open a tie game and propelled the University of Cincinnati baseball team to a 10-3 win over Houston for the American Athletic Conference series win on Sunday at Schroeder Park.
 
Cincinnati (24-21, 13-11 AAC) finished its eight-game road swing at 5-3 ahead of the final eight regular season games at UC Baseball Stadium, starting next weekend against East Carolina.
 
With things knotted up at 2-2 in the fourth, Cole Harting tagged an RBI triple to right field to score Griffin Merritt and Joe Powell. Jace Mercer was up next and hit a sac fly which allowed Harting to tag from third.
 
The Bearcats added a run in the sixth on Joey Bellini's RBI single and blew the game open with four runs in the eighth. Mercer hit his third double of the game with one out and scored on another RBI single from Bellini. Ryan Nicholson's sac fly scored Bellinin and Wyatt Stapp cleared the bases with a double which scored Tanner Holen and Eric Santiago making the score 10-3.
 
UC had a taken a 2-0 lead in the first on a home run by Santiago which scored Bellini. Houston added runs on a solo homer in the first and sacrifice fly in the second.
 
Mercer and Santiago both had three hits and two runs scored. Santiago also had a pair of hits with a walk.
 
UC starter Jalen Wade picked up the win, moving to 3-0 on the year. He went 6.0 solid innings, giving up three runs on six hits with a pair of strikeouts. Dean McCarthy got the three-inning save, his third of the year. He struck out six and crossed the 150 career strikeouts plateau.