UCF and Tulane picked up midweek wins in American Athletic Conference baseball action.

Tuesday, March 16
UCF 8, Florida Atlantic 3 - Box Score
Tulane 12, Texas Southern 6 - Box Score
Stetson 14, USF 12 - Box Score
No. 25 Texas A&M 9, Houston 4 - Box Score
Wednesday, March 17
UNCW 10, No. 9 East Carolina 2 - Box Score

UCF 8, Florida Atlantic 3 - Box Score
Orlando, Fla. – The UCF baseball team won their third game in a row and their fourth in their last five on Tuesday night against FAU by a score of 8-3. The Knights bullpen was lights out going five innings, giving up zero runs and only three hits.
 
FAU (9-6) opened the scoring with a two-run home run by BJ Murray. The Owls tacked on a third run in the third inning. UCF's (7-9) bats would wake up in the bottom half of the third when Josh Crouch took a pitch deep to left field to make it a one run deficit for the Knights.
 
The following inning Alex Freeland drew a bases loaded walk to knot the game up at three apiece. The following inning, the Black and Gold would load the bases again but fail to push a run across.
 
Nothing happened for the FAU offense after the third inning behind the arms of Ben Vespi, Zack Bennett, and David Litchfield out of the bullpen.
 
The patient UCF offense would work 11 total walks but none bigger than Crouch's bases loaded walk in the 8th inning to give the Knights the lead. The very next at bat my Ben McCabe got John Euliano park rocking. He took a 2-2 pitch deep to left center field for a grand slam that put UCF up 8-3. Litchfield came in for the ninth to close the game out with a 1-2-3 inning and the Knights held on to earn a series split with FAU.

Tulane 12, Texas Southern 6 - Box Score
NEW ORLEANS – The Tulane University Baseball team (9-7) claimed a 12-6 victory over Texas Southern University (4-13) on Tuesday night inside Greer Field at Turchin Stadium.
 
Tulane scored double-digit runs for the second straight game and scored in six of their eight plate appearances to start the 13-game homestand on a high note.
 
Junior right-hander Tyler Hoffman (2-1) started for the Green Wave and went five scoreless innings while only allowing one hit. For the second straight start, Hoffman recorded eight strikeouts.

Stetson 14, USF 12 - Box Score
TAMPA – The USF Bulls (7-7) looked poised for another one of their late-inning triumphs on Tuesday night, but Stetson University (12-6) scored four runs in the ninth to escape USF Baseball Stadium with a 14-12 victory.
 
USF held three-run leads on three different occasions in the ballgame as the two teams traded blows all night long. After the Hatters claimed their first advantage of the tilt in the eighth inning, 10-9, the Bulls responded with a pair of runs in the bottom of the frame to regain an 11-10 lead.
 
A sacrifice fly by Carmine Lane knotted the score in the eighth, and Julio Cortez was hit with an 0-2 pitch with the bases loaded to give the Bulls a one-run advantage heading to the ninth inning.
 
Stetson refused to go away, however, plating four runs in the ninth which proved to be too much to overcome even after Roberto Pena blasted his second home run of the evening in the bottom of the ninth.

No. 25 Texas A&M 9, Houston 4 - Box Score
HOUSTON – Texas A&M used a pair of home runs, including a grand slam, to stave off Houston, 9-4 on Tuesday night from Don Sanders Field at Darryl & Lori Schroeder Park.
 
The No. 25 Aggies capitalized on a hit by pitch, single and walk as nine-hole batter Kalae Harrison belted a grand slam over the left field wall to put the Aggies ahead 4-1 in the second. Texas A&M moved its win streak to 11 games and improved to 15-4 overall.
 
Houston (10-6) pushed three across in the fifth inning as Ian McMillan took his first pitch into left field, plating Luke Almendarez (single), and Will Pendergrass drove a two-out, two-run single into right field, trimming Houston's deficit to 6-4.
 
Almendarez (2-for-5) matched a career high with two hits. Pendergrass (2-for-4) notched his fifth multi-hit game and second multi-RBI performance. Brandon Uhse extended his hit streak to five games in a 1-for-4 performance.

UNCW 10, No. 9 East Carolina 2 - Box Score
WILMINGTON, N.C. – UNCW scored 10 unanswered runs and cruised to a 10-2 victory over No. 9 East Carolina Wednesday night at Brooks Field. With the win the Seahawks improved to 11-3, while the Pirates fell to 13-3.
 
With the game knotted at two-all going to the bottom of the second inning, UNCW plated a pair of runs taking a 4-2 lead and never looked back. Dillon Lifrieri reached on an infield single and took second on Noah Bridges sac bunt. Taber Mongero singled home Lifrieri and Jac Croom's RBI ground out to second pushed home Mongero.
 
Jacob Shafter (1-0) got the win allowing two runs (both earned) on five hits with a pair of strikeouts. Bryce Cota worked 1.2 innings issuing three walks and striking out one before Hunter Hodges (1.1 IP, 2 Ks) and Adam Smith (1.0 IP, 2 Ks) worked the final 2.1 innings to preserve the win for UNCW.
 
Nate Nabholz (0-1) made his first collegiate start allowing two runs (both earned) on two hits with a walk in a one-third of an inning. From there, ECU would use seven pitchers out of the bull pen on a staff day getting outings from Nick Logusch (1.0 IP, 1 R), C.J. Mayhue (0.2 IP, 1 R, 1 K), Trystan Kimmel (2.1 IP, 3 Rs, 2 Ks), A.J. Wilson (0.2 IP, 1 R, 1 K), Garrett Saylor (1.0 IP, 1 R), Danny Beal (1.0 IP, 1 R, 2 Ks) and Carter Spivey (1.0 IP, 1 K).