UCF and East Carolina completed season-opening series sweeps on Sunday, February 19.

Sunday, February 19
Cincinnati 6, Georgia State 4 - Box Score
No. 11 East Carolina 23, George Washington 5 - Box Score
UCF 11, Siena 1 - Box Score
Houston 8, Cal 6 - Box Score
Wichita State 11, Long Beach State 6 - Box Score
No. 13 Maryland 9, South Florida 5 - Box Score
Samford 9, Memphis 8 - Box Score
UC Irvine 1, Tulane 0 - Box Score

Cincinnati 6, Georgia State 4 - Box Score
ATLANTA, Ga. – Redshirt junior infielder Kameron Guidry broke through a late-inning tie to lift the University of Cincinnati baseball team past Georgia State on Sunday at the GSU Baseball Complex.
 
Guidry delivered a two-out, two-RBI single to left field in the bottom of the eighth inning to give UC the 6-4 victory in the final game of its opening-weekend series.
 
Senior Jackson Murphy (1-1) picked up the victory out of the bullpen for Cincinnati. The right-hander went two shutout innings while giving up one hit, allowing no walks and striking out three.
 
The Bearcats were paced offensively by freshman two-way player Griffin Hugus, who went 2-for-4 on the day with his first career home run and two RBI.
 
With runners on first and second in the bottom of the ninth inning, Hugus made the short trip from third base to the mound to earn his first career save.   

No. 11 East Carolina 23, George Washington 5 - Box Score
GREENVILLE, N.C. – No. 11 East Carolina grabbed an early lead Sunday and did not relent, routing George Washington 23-5 to complete its sixth Opening Weekend sweep since 2015.
 
The Pirates (3-0) outscored the Colonials (0-3) 43-13 over the three contests and scored their most runs in a single game since defeating Delaware State 24-0 back on May 13, 2011. ECU also recorded 20 hits on the day – the most in a single contest for the program since notching 22 against Elon March 15, 2015.
 
Justin Wilcoxen put forth his final argument in a case for national player of the week consideration, finishing Sunday's affair with a three-hit performance that included four runs scored and four RBI. For the weekend, he went 10-for-14 (.714) with nine runs scored, three doubles, two home runs and eight RBI. Jacob Starling also wrapped up a stout two-day stretch at the plate, tallying three hits, two runs scored and three RBI in the blowout victory. Sam Gates paced the visiting GW club with two hits, a run scored and three runs driven in.

Danny Beal (1-0) picked up his first victory of the season in relief, firing across two scoreless innings while surrendering just one hit. East Carolina touched up Colonial starter Austin Odell (0-1) for eight runs (six earned) on seven hits and two walks in the right-hander's first start of the campaign.

UCF 11, Siena 1 - Box Score
ORLANDO - The Knights dominated start to finish on Sunday where newcomer Dom Stagliano didn't allow a run in his first appearance as a Knight. Tom Josten highlighted UCF's offense who went 2-2 with a double and a home run. The Black and Gold came out victorious at John Euliano Park by a score of 11-1.
 
Stagliano made his first appearance after transferring from Stetson following his freshman year. The highly touted transfer was named to the Collegiate Baseball All-American team in 2022 and started out his 2023 season in a strong outing. On top of the strong performance from Stagliano, he had plenty of help from the offense giving him a two run cushion going into the second inning. 
 
The dominant performance by the Black and Gold continued with two or more runs scored in the next 3 innings while not allowing a single run. The Knights led 9-0 heading to the top of the fifth innings thanks to home runs in the bottom of the fourth inning by Josten and Lex Boedicker.
 
Following another scoreless inning, Stagliano's day was over after allowing just three hits to go along with seven strikeouts and no earned runs in five innings. After adding another run in the bottom of the fifth due to Keano Suarez reaching on an error, the Knights extended their lead to double digits. It wasn't until the top of the sixth where Siena (0-3) scored their first run of the day. 
 
In the bottom of the seventh inning, Matt Cedarburg tripled to center field and two batters later, Suarez doubled down the third base line and Cedarburg scored the Knights 11th run of the game.

Houston 8, Cal 6 - Box Score
HOUSTON – University of Houston Baseball scored four times between the seventh and eighth innings including the eventual game-winning, go-ahead RBI-single from junior Zach Arnold en route to an 8-6 victory over Cal in the series finale Sunday afternoon from Sanders Field at Schroeder Park.
 
The back-and-forth affair featured five lead changes including the Cougars (1-2) taking a one-run advantage courtesy of a two-run seventh inning which featured an RBI-double from senior Brandon Uhse and junior Justin Murray sacrifice fly before the Golden Bears (2-1) tied the game in the top of the eighth.
 
After Cal evened the contest at six-all in the top of the eighth, Houston applied the pressure in the home half. Sophomore Malachi Lott drew a leadoff four-pitch walk and stole second. Sophomore Brandon Burckel moved Lott to third on a bunt single and stole second to put two in scoring position with no outs.
 
Arnold's RBI-base knock and junior Alex Lopez's sacrifice fly provided Houston a two-run cushion in an up-for-grab contest that featured a combined 24 hits. Houston senior reliever José Torrealba (1-1) locked up the win, stranding the bases loaded in the eighth before adding two punchouts in a perfect ninth.

Wichita State 11, Long Beach State 6 - Box Score
LONG BEACH, Calif. – Wichita State scored 11 runs in the first three innings and cruised from there, salvaging the series finale against Long Beach State with an 11-6 win on Sunday afternoon at Blair Field. The victory was the first for interim head coach Loren Hibbs, who previously won 819 games as head coach at Charlotte.

The Shockers (1-2) did all their damage early, striking for two runs in the first, one in the second and eight in the third. Garrett Pennington got the scoring started with his first home run as a Shocker, a booming two-run shot to the gap in left center for a 2-0 advantage. Brock Rodden stretched the lead to 3-0 in the second with a two-out RBI single through the right side, chasing Long Beach State starter Myles Patton after just 1.2 innings.

The Dirtbags (2-1) quickly erased the deficit with three runs of their own in the bottom of the second. A run-scoring fielder's choice and back-to-back two-out RBI singles drew Long Beach State level at 3-3.

In the third, 10 of the first 11 Shockers reached base safely to blow the game open. Mauricio Millan opened the scoring barrage with a two-run home run down the left field line, his first as a Shocker. Two singles and a walk loaded the bases for Sawyre Thornhill, who ripped an RBI single through the right side that made it 6-3. Brock Rodden followed by coaxing a bases-loaded walk, and Long Beach State was then called for a balk attempting a hidden ball trick that ballooned the lead to 8-3. A bloop double from Garrett Pennington kept the merry-go-round moving, and Payton Tolle capped the inning with a two-run single for an 11-3 lead.

Wichita State starter Grant Adler (1-0) made it stand up with six solid innings in his WSU debut, allowing five runs while striking out five and walking two. Freshman Nate Snead turned in two scoreless innings in his first appearance, and Caden Favors closed it out by recording the game's final three outs.

No. 13 Maryland 9, South Florida 5 - Box Score
TAMPA (February 19, 2023) – Drew Brutcher and Daniel Cantu each homered for the University of South Florida Bulls on Sunday afternoon, but No. 13 Maryland hit three home runs and claimed the weekend series by a score of 9-5 in the finale at USF Baseball Stadium.

South Florida won the opener on Friday, 8-7, and Maryland responded with an 8-1 win on Saturday before taking the rubber match on Sunday.

Sunday's grand slam staked Maryland to an 8-2 advantage in the fifth inning and stood as the deciding blow, but the Bulls did not go down without a fight.

Cantu led off the bottom of the seventh with a single and Bobby Boser followed with a walk to put two on with no outs. Brutcher then unloaded on a 435-foot home run that landed on top of the batting cages in right-center field to make it an 8-5 game.

Samford 9, Memphis 8 - Box Score
MEMPHIS, Tenn. – The University of Memphis baseball team dropped the finale of its 2023 opening-weekend series to Samford in 11 innings Sunday afternoon at FedExPark Avron Fogelman Field, 9-8, after taking the first two games of the weekend.
 
The Tigers (2-1) got 5.2 quality innings out of freshman Seth Garner (3 H, 1 R, 5 K) on the mound in his collegiate debut, but Samford (1-2) used a five-run seventh inning to get back into the game and eventually force extra innings and scrap out the win.

UC Irvine 1, Tulane 0 - Box Score
IRVINE, Calif. – The Tulane University Baseball team, (0-3) lost a barn burner pitch duel 1-0 to the University of California Irvine (3-0) on Sunday. The game marked the third of the opening weekend series between the two clubs. 
 
The pitching was nothing short of spectacular from both sides, but especially for the Green Wave. The campaign was led by right-hander Ricky Castro who in his debut for the Wave only gave up two hits and one run, not earned, and two walks in 5.2 innings.
 
The relief came in the form of Gavin Smith, Michael Fowler and Michael Lomardi. They worked a combined 2.1 innings no runs on no hits with only two walks in 36 pitches.
 
The lone run scored in the game came in the bottom of the second. A fly out to center field scored the Anteater's designated hitter Myles Smith. Smith's run was unearned after he advances from second to third on a Tulane error.