Four American Athletic Conference baseball teams picked up series wins, including three that clinched their series in Sunday action (March 21).

Sunday, March 21
No. 9 East Carolina 11, Illinois State 8 - Box Score
USF 6, Florida Atlantic 5 (11 innings) - Box Score
UCF 10, Jacksonville 0 - Box Score
Memphis 8, Middle Tennessee 7 (11 innings) - Box Score
FIU 9, Wichita State 2 - Box Score
Xavier 16, Cincinnati 8 - Box Score
Oklahoma 12, Houston 2 - Box Score
Louisiana Tech 8, Tulane 6 - Box Score

No. 9 East Carolina 11, Illinois State 8 - Box Score
GREENVILLE, N.C. – C.J. Mayhue tossed three scoreless innings of relief, while Seth Caddell (two hits, four RBI) and Thomas Francisco (three hits) paced No. 9 East Carolina's offense in an 11-8 series sweep victory Sunday afternoon Lewis Field inside Clark-LeClair Stadium. With the win the Pirates improve to 16-3 on the season (four weekend sweeps), while the Redbirds drop to 5-12.
 
Trailing 3-0 going to the bottom of the first inning, the Pirates scored four runs and never trailed the rest of the contest despite a combined 19 runs in the contest. Zach Agnos drew a one-out walk and took third on Francisco's single up the middle. Caddell followed with another walk to load the bases. Two batters later, Bryson Worrell reached on a Redbird throwing error allowing plating Agnos and Francisco. Josh Moylan cleared the bases with a two-out double pushing across Caddell and Worrell for a 4-3 advantage.
 
Carson Whisenhunt (4-0) earned the win giving up four runs (all earned) on five hits with a walk and five punch outs. After giving up three in the first inning, he would go on an retire 10 straight until the fifth frame. Mayhue notched his fourth save of the year with three shutout frames where he allowed two hits and fanned four. Carter Spivey allowed three runs (all unearned) on two hits, while Matt Bridges gave up one (unearned) on one hit with a pair of punch outs in an inning.

USF 6, Florida Atlantic 5 (11 innings) - Box Score
TAMPA – Daniel Cantu's first collegiate home run came in the form of an extra inning walk-off blast in the 11th inning on Sunday to seal a 6-5 triumph for the USF Bulls (9-8), and a series win over previously-ranked Florida Atlantic (10-8).
 
FAU was ranked No. 20 in D1Baseball Top 25 last week, and entered the three-game series with the Bulls receiving votes in the NCBWA and USA TODAY polls. The Owls won the series opener, 5-1, while USF took the final two games by scores of 4-0 and 6-5.
 
Cantu tallied the second walk-off homer for the Bulls this season in USF's third total walk-off win.
 
Runs were limited early in the ballgame with both sides trying to secure a series victory. The Bulls and Owls combined for just three tallies over the first seven frames before the fireworks began late.

UCF 10, Jacksonville 0 - Box Score
Orlando, Fla. – In game three of the weekend series with Jacksonville, the Knights were firing on all cylinders in their 10-0 win on Sunday afternoon.
 
The Knights scored at least one run in all but two innings that they came to the plate. The scoring got started in the second as Connor Allen came across to score on a John Montes double. In the following inning, Pablo Ruiz made it 3-0 with a two-RBI double. Later that inning, Ruiz scored as making it a 5-0 game. Ruiz had an incredible day at the plate going 4-5 with three RBI's, two runs, and two triples.
 
Starting pitcher AJ Jones threw a dominate five scoreless frames, striking out six Jacksonville batters.
 
In the sixth inning Ben McCabe made the game 8-0 with his home run to left center field. The following inning, McCabe went deep again, this time to right field to extend the lead to 9-0.

Memphis 8, Middle Tennessee 7 (11 innings) - Box Score
MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Nine innings weren't enough for the Memphis Tigers and Middle Tennessee State Blue Raiders in Sunday's series finale, as Memphis picked up an 8-7 win on a walk-off sacrifice fly from Ian Bibiloni in the 11th inning.
 
In the final of four games over the weekend between the two schools, the Tigers (9-8) got out to an early 2-0 lead on a second inning home run from Taylor Howell, his third home run of the season. That lead held through five innings, as Landon Kelly (ND) allowed just one run on five hits over 4.1 innings in the start for the Tigers.
 
The Blue Raiders picked up a single run in both the fifth and sixth frames, as Fausto Lopez ended Kelly's afternoon with a fifth inning RBI single. Kelly departed for Walker Brockhouse, who stranded two men in scoring position in the fifth, but then gave up a game-tying, one-out home run to Jake Hagenow in the sixth. The game was tied 2-2 after six innings.
 
Trent Siebert (ND) allowed just two runs on seven hits over seven innings for the Blue Raiders but departed in a tie game in search of his second win of the season. After Siebert posted a scoreless seventh inning, the Blue Raiders tacked on a pair of runs in the eighth. Brockhouse walked the first two batters of the inning and departed for Takoda Metoxen. DJ Wright reached on an error, which loaded the bases with no outs for Bryce Symlar. The Blue Raiders went ahead 4-2 on a two-run single from Symlar, though Metoxen struck out the next three batters and limited the damage. Middle Tennessee State led 4-2 after 7.5 innings.
 
Memphis went in order in the eighth but got to Adam Link in the ninth. Down to their final three outs, the Tigers loaded the bases with no outs on singles from Alec Trela and Howell and a HBP drawn by Ben Brooks. Link departed for David Zoz, who got Bibiloni to roll into a run-scoring double play. Down to their final out, the Tigers got a two-out, game-tying RBI single from Braden Webb. Memphis left the winning run at third base but sent the game to extra innings tied 4-4.
 
Bailey Wimberley (1-0) entered to pitch for Memphis to start the 10th. With the free baserunner at second base to start the inning, Wimberley hit Hagenow. After a sacrifice bunt and a strikeout, Wimberley had two strikes on Brett Coker and was one pitch away from a scoreless frame. On a 1-2 pitch, Coker hit a three-run home run to left-centerfield that gave the Blue Raiders a 10-7 lead.
 
Once again down to their final three outs, the Tigers rallied, this time against Jaden Hamm (L, 1-1). Max Hildreth started the inning as the free baserunner at second base while Evan Bell drew a one-out four-pitch walk. The Blue Raiders kept Zoz in the game to face Hunter Goodman, and the All-American jumped on a first pitch fastball from the southpaw. Goodman hit the scoreboard with a game-tying three-run opposite-field blast, his sixth home run of the season.
 
After Wimberley worked around a HBP and stranded two men in scoring position in the 11th, Memphis played small ball to walk-off with the win. Sterling Turmon pinch ran as the free baserunner at second base and advanced to third on a sacrifice bunt from Brooks. With the infield and outfield drawn in, Bibiloni lofted a fly ball deep to right field for a walk-off sacrifice fly that plated Turmon and secured Memphis' 8-7 win. The Tigers won three of four games in the series, each by one run.

FIU 9, Wichita State 2 - Box Score
DELAND, Fla. – The Wichita State University baseball team fell to the FIU Panthers, 9-2, Sunday, March 21, at Melching Field on the Stetson University campus.
 
Junior infielder Paxton Wallace went 2-for-4, while Ross Cadena tripled and Seth Stroh drove in a run, leading the Shockers for the game.
 
Freshman right-hander Josh Hansell (1-2) suffered the loss on the mound for WSU after giving up six runs – five earned – on seven hits with four strikeouts and two walks in 4 1/3 innings.
 
Juan Teixeira went 2-for-5 with a two-run homer, Derek Cartaya had three hits, and Alec Sanchez and Seth Cannaday doubled, pacing FIU (8-8).

Xavier 16, Cincinnati 8 - Box Score
CINCINNATI – A pair of big innings for Xavier spelled doom for the University of Cincinnati baseball team in a 16-8 loss at Hayden Field on Sunday.
 
Xavier (5-7) scored 11 runs in the sixth and seventh innings, all with two outs as the Musketeers took advantage of walks, hit batsmen and errors. Cincinnati (7-9) committed three errors in the game and stranded 13 runners. The Musketeers offensive blast blew open an 8-5 Bearcats lead and gave XU its second victory in the four-game series, which concludes Monday at UC Baseball Stadium.
 
UC struck first in the third when Wyatt Stapp singled to center field to plate Jace Mercer for the 1-0 lead. XU took a 3-1 lead in the fourth on two of their four home runs on the day. Mercer hit a long ball of his own in the fifth to score Cole Harting, who was aboard after a leadoff walk. The Bearcats batted around and Mercer's two-out, full-count walk scored Tanner Holen to put UC up 7-5.
 
XU got two back in the fifth before UC added its eighth run after a hustle play by Jake Murray. Murray reached on a passed ball after a third strike and scored Griffin Merritt.

Oklahoma 12, Houston 2 - Box Score
NORMAN, Okla. – Oklahoma used key two-out hits, including five two-out runs in the fifth inning to down Houston, 12-2 in seven innings and complete the three-game sweep on Sunday afternoon from L. Dale Mitchell Park.
 
The result marked the first time Houston (10-9) had been swept in a three-game series since April 15-17, 2016 at UConn. It was also the first time the Cougars have been swept in a three-game non-conference set since April 13-15, 2012 at Texas Tech.
 
Houston starter Ben Sears (1-1) allowed nine runs on eight hits alongside two walks and a strikeout. After two scoreless frames, the Sooners tagged Sears for crooked numbers in the third and fifth including five two-out RBIs in the fifth.

Louisiana Tech 8, Tulane 6 - Box Score
NEW ORLEANS – The Tulane University baseball team (9-10) was defeated by Louisiana Tech (13-5) in a back-and-forth contest, 8-6, on Sunday at Greer Field at Turchin Stadium.
 
Junior lefty Jack Aldrich (1-1) took the hill for the Green Wave and gave up six runs on six hits while racking up seven strikeouts over six innings of work.
 
Senior right-hander Jarret Whorff (4-1) started for Louisiana Tech, his first outing since his complete game shutout against top-ranked Arkansas one weekend prior. Tulane tagged Whorff for five runs, four earned, on seven hits over six innings.