East Carolina and Houston sit atop the American Athletic Conference baseball standings at 5-2 after action on Friday, April 14.

Friday, April 14
UCF 12, Memphis 3 - Box Score
East Carolina 9, Cincinnati 4 - Box Score
Tulane 9, Wichita State 7 (Game 1) - Box Score
Wichita State 10, Tulane 9 (Game 2) - Box Score
Houston 6, South Florida 5 - Box Score

UCF 12, Memphis 3 - Box Score
ORLANDO -- UCF scored five runs in the third inning on the way to a 12-3 victory over Memphis Friday at John Euliano Park.

Three Knights (19-15, 2-5, American) hit home runs, including Lex Boedicker, Drew Faurot and Andrew Sundean. 

Ruddy Gomez (5-2) earned the win after striking out nine batters, while giving up three runs.

David Warren (2-4) took the loss for the Tigers (18-17, 2-5), allowing five runs in three innings.

East Carolina 9, Cincinnati 4 - Box Score
GREENVILLE, N.C. – Cam Clonch and Josh Moylan bookended the East Carolina offense with a pair of three-run home runs as the ninth-ranked Pirates picked up a 9-4 victory over Cincinnati in the opener of an American Athletic Conference series Friday night at Lewis Field inside Clark-LeClair Stadium.
 
The Pirates (26-8, 5-2 American) continued their utter dominance at home, improving to 22-2 in Greenville and tallying their sixth consecutive victory. The Bearcats (15-20, 3-4) managed just four hits (all home runs) and committed three errors during the evening.
 
Trey Yesavage (6-0), while allowing three runs on two hits in five innings of work, still collected his sixth victory of the campaign behind a 10-strikeout performance. Griffin Hugus (1-1) was saddled with the loss after surrendering five runs (four earned) on two hits with five walks and one strikeout in just 1.2 innings of work.
 
Alec Makarewicz posted a two-hit effort and drove in one run while Clonch and Moylan delivered three RBI apiece. Lane Hoover, the newly crowned AAC career leader in runs scored, crossed home plate twice and drew a pair of walks. Tommy O'Connor went 2-for-4 with a run scored to pace the visitors.
 
After Yesavage struck out the side in the top of the first, the East Carolina offense went right to work. Hoover fell behind 0-2 to lead off the frame but fought back to draw a walk. Starling then laced a two-out single to left center before Clonch drilled a 2-1 pitch well over the right field wall to put the Pirates in front 3-0 through one complete.
 
ECU extended its lead to five in the bottom of the second with two away. Carter Cunningham and Moylan worked a pair of walks while Jacob Starling drew a free pass as well to load the bases. Cunningham scampered home on a wild pitch and Moylan scored on a throwing error to account for the two tallies.
 
Cincinnati crept within 6-3 in the sixth frame thanks to a Ryan Nicholson two-run homer and Alec Jones hit a solo shot in the top of the eighth to reduce the Bearcat deficit to just two. Joey Berini would single through the right side to begin the home half of the eighth and Hoover reached base via a walk with one out before Moylan delivered the knockout blow with a three-run blast to left center that accounted for the contest's final five-run margin.

Tulane 9, Wichita State 7 (Game 1) - Box Score
Wichita State 10, Tulane 9 (Game 2) - Box Score
NEW ORLEANS – Tulane's baseball team took the first game of Saturday's doubleheader, while Wichita State bounced back in the nightcap in a series that saw its schedule reworked with inclement weather in the forecast for Saturday.
 
The Green Wave is now 10-25 and 4-4 in the American Athletic Conference, while the Shockers are 19-15 and also 4-4 in the league.
 
Game 1: Tulane 9, Wichita State 7
Tulane starter Dylan Carmouche (3-5) picked up his third straight victory, going seven innings and allowing four runs (three earned) on eight hits with nine strikeouts against two walks. Chandler Welch picked up his first save of the season (second career) as he got the final two outs, the last coming on a swinging strikeout of WSU pinch-hitter Alex Birge. 
 
Shockers starter Payton Tolle (6-1) suffered his first setback of the season, giving up seven runs on nine hits with three strikeouts and one walk. 
 
Tulane catcher Brennan Lambert, who celebrated a birthday Friday, responded by going 3-for-3 with three RBI and two walks. Right fielder Brady Hebert, center fielder Teo Banks and first baseman Brady Marget all had two hits apiece.
 
WSU catcher Mauricio Millan drove in two runs, while right fielder Chuck Ingram went 3-for-5. Shortstop Brock Rodden and second baseman Jack Little each posted a pair of base knocks and Ingram and third baseman Sawyre Thornhill scored twice. Little and Thornhill had solo homers in the fourth and sixth innings, respectively.
 
The Shockers got to Carmouche with single runs in the first and second innings, the former being unearned as it was aided by a Green Wave error.
 
Tulane's big inning came in the bottom of the second as it plated five runs on six hits. Third baseman Simon Baumgart belted the inning's first pitch over the wall in left center and Lambert, Hebert and Banks all followed with run-scoring singles. Second baseman Michael Lombardi scored the final run on Marget's RBI groundout to first.
 
After Lambert smashed a solo homer down the right field line in the third, the teams traded runs in the fourth with Tulane's tally coming via Marget's RBI single to left. The Milwaukee, Wisconsin native added another on his sixth inning double to center and Hebert tacked on the Green Wave's final run when he walked with the bases loaded, scoring Lambert. 
 
The Shockers added one run in the eighth and two in the ninth, but Welch's arrival signaled the end of the rally, giving the Green Wave the game one victory.
 
Game 2: Wichita State 10, Tulane 9
In the evening game, WSU starter Clark Candiotti (5-2) picked up the win, allowing seven runs on 10 hits with four strikeouts and two walks in five and one-third innings. Nate Snead finished the contest, hurling three and two-thirds innings, giving up two runs on three hits with four strikeouts and one walk to get his second save of the season.
 
Tulane starter Ricky Castro (2-5) had a tough day, surrendering eight runs on six hits with four strikeouts and five walks in three and two-thirds innings to take the loss.
 
The top of the WSU order did all of the damage as Ingram and Garrett Pennington each drove in four runs, sandwiched in the order around two from Rodden. The trio also belted four home runs. Ingram went 3-for-3 and scored three times and Jaden Gustafson came across the plate twice.
 
Banks knocked in three for Tulane, while Jackson Linn and James Agabedis contributed two RBI. That duo, plus Marget and James LaPrairie all had two hits apiece with all but Agabedis scoring twice.
 
The game's first eight runs were all scored via the home run before Agabedis laced a two-run single to left in the bottom of the third to give the home team a 7-3 lead.
 
However, the Shockers responded in a big way with five runs in the top of the fourth to take a lead it would not relinquish. The big blow came on Pennington's grand slam to left, a shot that chased Castro from the contest.
 
After 15 runs were scored in the first three and a half innings, the bats fell silent until the eighth when the two teams traded two runs. The Green Wave's runs came off the bat of Linn on a two-run thunderbolt that careened off the camera stand above the 400-foot sign in center field. That brought the home team within one at 10-9, but Tulane was unable to do further damage against Snead in the ninth.

Houston 6, South Florida 5 - Box Score
HOUSTON -- Houston took the first game of the series with South Florida, 6-5, in a battle of teams at the top of The American's standings.

After South Florida (15-20, 4-3 American) took the lead 3-0 in the top of the third, the Cougars (19-15, 5-2) came back with three each in the second and third innings. 

Justin Murray was a home run shy of a cycle for the Coogs. He also came in to pitch the ninth inning and earned his fifth save of the season.

Owen Woodward (3-0) took the win for the Cougars, allowing one run in 5.0 innings of relief. Ethan Brown (1-4) took the loss for the Bulls.