Wichita State finished off a sweep of Omaha in American Athletic Conference baseball action on Sunday, March 28.

Sunday, March 28
Wichita State 11, Omaha 1 - Box Score
Houston 5, UT Arlington 4 (10 innings) - Box Score
Memphis 6, Murray State (Game 1 - 7 innings) - Box Score
Murray State 4, Memphis 2 (Game 2 - 7 innings) - Box Score
Saint Louis 21, Cincinnati 6 - Box Score
Troy 14, UCF 12 (8 innings) - Box Score
No. 6 Texas Tech 7, USF 4 - Box Score
Grand Canyon 6, Tulane 0 - Box Score

Wichita State 11, Omaha 1 - Box Score
WICHITA, Kan. – Spencer Hynes tossed five innings of one-hit baseball, and Seth Stroh had a career-high three hits to lead Wichita State baseball to an 11-1 win over the Omaha Mavericks Sunday, March 28, at Eck Stadium, Home of Tyler Field.
 
The victory completed a three-game series sweep of the Mavs (8-12) and improved the Shockers to 12-8 overall heading into American Athletic Conference play.
 
Hynes, a redshirt junior left-hander from Weatherford, Texas, improved to 2-1 on the mound after giving up just one hit and one earned run on 87 total pitches while striking out seven and walking four.
 
A freshman from Kearney, Neb., Stroh went 3-for-4, while Paxton Wallace, Corrigan Bartlett and Ross Cadena all had a pair of hits, leading Wichita State at the plate.
 
Jack Sigrist, Garrett Kocis and Hunter Gibson each doubled in the game, and Sigrist, David VanVooren, Bartlett and Gibson all drove in two runs.

Houston 5, UT Arlington 4 (10 innings) - Box Score
HOUSTON – Houston junior Kyle Lovelace delivered a walk-off squeeze bunt as Houston scored two runs in the 10th inning to defeat UT Arlington, 5-4 on Sunday afternoon from Don Sanders Field at Darryl & Lori Schroeder Park.
 
Trailing by one entering the home half of the 10th, Ian McMillan brought in Andrew Papantonis on an infield single to tie things at four. One batter later, Lovelace set down the game winner as the speedy Brad Burckel evaded the tag at home.
 
A two-run home run gave UTA (10-13) the lead in the first. Houston outfielder Steven Rivas answered in the second courtesy of a leadoff homer. The long ball was his ninth of the season and trimmed the Cougar deficit to 2-1.
 
The Cougars tied things on a Samuel Tormos' fielder's choice to score Will Pendergrass in the second. Brad Burckel scored one batter later as Tormos was put out on the bases. Houston finished with just six hits but managed three in the frame.
 
The Cougars held the lead up until the eighth inning, when UTA's Dylan Paul tied the game up on a Boone Montgomery single. UTA went up 4-3 in the 10th inning on a JD Wadleigh run.

Memphis 6, Murray State (Game 1 - 7 innings) - Box Score
Murray State 4, Memphis 2 (Game 2 - 7 innings) - Box Score
MEMPHIS, Tenn. – After rain postponed Saturday's matchup between the Memphis Tigers and Murray State Racers, the teams split Sunday's doubleheader, with a 6-1 Tigers win that opened the day and a 4-2 Racers win in the back half of the twin-bill that secured the series for the visitors.
 
In the first of two seven-inning affairs, the Racers quickly jumped on Memphis starter Chris Durham (W, 2-1), though the southpaw shut down Murray State (12-11) over the rest of his six-inning start. Jordan Cozart hit a two-out home run in the first, but Durham settled in and allowed just three more runners to reach scoring position over the remainder of his outing.
 
The Tigers (10-12) tied game one with a run in the second inning, as Alec Trela led off the frame with a solo home run off of Jack Wellinger (L, 2-2). The score remained 1-1 until the bottom of the fifth inning, as the Tigers posted a crooked number in both the fifth and sixth frames.
 
With two outs in the bottom of the fifth, Austin Baskin gave the Tigers the lead with a pinch-hit, two-run single. In the sixth, Jordyn Naranjo issued a leadoff walk to Ben Brooks, who scored one batter later on a double from Hunter Goodman. Ryan Fender entered out of the Racers' bullpen and struck out the next two Tigers, but a single from Ian Bibiloni and a pair of wild pitches made it a three-run inning and gave the Tigers the 6-1 lead, the eventual final. After six frames from Durham, Bailey Wimberley worked around a single and a walk in a scoreless seventh, as he closed out Memphis' 6-1 win.
 
The back half of the doubleheader started much like the first, with a solo home run from Cozart in the top of the first inning. Cozart's second home run of the day, his eighth of the season, this time off of Landon Kelly (L, 2-2), gave the Racers an early 1-0 lead.
 
Memphis went scoreless in the first against Jake Jones (W, 4-0), but took the lead with a two-run second inning. Both Trela and Taylor Howell reached on errors by Bryson Bloomer, while a single from Baskin loaded the bases with no outs. Bibiloni tied the game with an RBI groundout, while Zach Wilson gave the Tigers the lead with a sacrifice fly. Wilson's RBI made it 2-1 Memphis, though the Tigers didn't crack the scoreboard again. Jones allowed only one hit and two unearned runs over four innings.
 
Kelly pitched into the fourth for the Tigers but couldn't get out of the inning. Bloomer led off with a double before Kelly retired two straight. Jacob Pennington drew a walk and Drew Vogel was hit by a pitch, which loaded the bases. A misplay by Trela on a ground ball off the bat of Jake Slunder plated two runs and put Murray State ahead for good. Jackson Cothren relieved Kelly but hit the first man that he faced and walked the next with the bases loaded, which forced in Murray State's sixth and final run. The Racers led 4-2 after 3.5 innings, the eventual final. Cade Vernon (SV, 1) pitched three-shutout innings out of the Racers' bullpen to earn Murray State the doubleheader split and the series victory.

Saint Louis 21, Cincinnati 6 - Box Score
CINCINNATI – The University of Cincinnati baseball team got off to a promising start, but it was undone by a fierce wind and Saint Louis' offense in an 21-6 loss to the Billikens on Sunday at UC Baseball Stadium.
 
Cincinnati (10-10) took two of three games in the series and tallied seven runs on six hits Sunday. A 20 MPH wind was gusting throughout the game and played havoc when the ball was in the air for both teams.
 
The Bearcats had taken an early 1-0 lead after a Cole Harting leadoff double led to the freshman scoring on a throwing error by the pitcher on a bunt single laid down by Jace Mercer.
 
Saint Louis (7-16) took the lead with six runs with two outs in the second and combined for 14 more runs over the next five innings. UC had seven pitchers throw on the day and gave up 17 hits with 11 walks and nine hit batters.

Troy 14, UCF 12 (8 innings) - Box Score
Troy, Ala. – Sunday afternoon at Riddle-Pace Field in Troy, Ala. the UCF baseball team dropped its series finale, falling 14-12 to Troy. For the fifth time in 2021, UCF scored 10+ runs on the backs of multi-RBI games from Gephry Pena, Jordan Rathbone, and Tom Josten.
 
The Trojans jumped out to a quick lead, plating six runs in the first inning and three in the second to hold a nine-run lead. Showing signs of life on offense, Jordan Rathbone drove in UCF's first run of the day with a single off of the shallow wall in right field.
 
The Knights made it a ballgame in the fifth inning, sending 14 batters to the plate and driving in nine runs thanks to four extra base hits. The inning was highlighted by a Tom Josten opposite field home run – his second of the season, Gephry Pena's second two-RBI base hit of the contest and Jordan Rathbone's fourth two-bagger of the season which drove in two.
 
UCF allowed three more runs in the home half of the fifth and were unable to complete the comeback, despite plating two more in the seventh.
 
Due to travel concerns, the two teams were unable to start a new inning after 5:30 p.m. CT and the game came to an end in the eighth with the Knights trailing, 14-12.

No. 6 Texas Tech 7, USF 4 - Box Score
LUBBOCK, TEXAS – The USF Bulls (9-12) put up a good fight on Sunday afternoon to the No. 6-ranked team in the country, but ultimately dropped a 7-4 decision in the series finale to Texas Tech (19-4).
 
The Red Raiders swept the three-game series, but Sunday's three-run affair was the closest contest in the weekend set and USF's pitching surrendered just five earned runs in game three.
 
The explosive Texas Tech offense was persistent early in the ballgame, scoring in each of the first six innings which was enough cushion to hold on for the victory.

Grand Canyon 6, Tulane 0 - Box Score
NEW ORLEANS – The Tulane University baseball team (10-12) was shut out by Grand Canyon University (11-12-1) as they fell 6-0 on Sunday at Greer Field at Turchin Stadium.
 
Tulane pitching had 12 strikeouts and zero walks, but the offense couldn't get anything going as it was blanked by GCU's arms.
 
The Green Wave bullpen's performance capped a stellar series in which it gave up only two earned runs over 16 innings of work to complete the weekend with a 1.13 ERA. The pen recorded 19 strikeouts in that span.
 
Senior right-hander Trent Johnson got the ball for the Green Wave and allowed four runs, three earned, on seven hits in four innings of work. Johnson recorded a season-high seven strikeouts.