Houston's win over No. 19 Texas with a walk-off home run highlighted American Athletic Conference baseball action on Saturday, March 6.

Saturday, March 6
No. 17 East Carolina 5, Appalachian State 2 - Box Score
USF 10, Stetson 5 - Box Score
Houston 3, No. 19 Texas (11 innings) - Box Score
Tulane 5, Western Kentucky 2 - Box Score
Wichita State 15, Dixie State 3 - Box Score
Cincinnati 5, UNCW 4 - Box Score
Baylor 9, Memphis 0 (Game 1) - Box Score
Baylor 20, Memphis 4 (Game 2) - Box Score

No. 17 East Carolina 5, Appalachian State 2 - Box Score
GREENVILLE, N.C. – Highlighted by back-to-back home runs by Ben Newton and Connor Norby, No. 17 East Carolina scored three runs in the fifth inning and claimed a series win against Appalachian State, 5-2. With the win the Pirates improve to 8-2 on the season, while the Mountaineers fall to 6-4.
 
Trailing 2-0, Newton blasted his first home run as a Pirate with a solo shot to right field to lead off the fifth. Norby followed with his third home run in four games with a no-doubter to left field knotting the game at two-all. Zach Agnos drew walk, Thomas Francisco singled up the middle putting runners on the corners for Alec Makarewicz, who laced an RBI single through the right side for the would-be game-winning run.
 
Gavin Williams (1-0) earned the win tossing four shutout innings in relief where he walked a pair and struck out three. For the right, who retired 10-straight at one point, it was his longest outing on the mound since working five innings in a start at Mississippi State on March 5, 2019. C.J. Mayhue worked the ninth retiring all three batters he faced earning his first collegiate save. Starter Jake Kuchmaner allowed two runs (both earned) on four hits with a walk and a strikeout in four innings.

USF 10, Stetson 5 - Box Score
DELAND – The USF Bulls (6-3) extended their winning streak to six in a row on Saturday night with a 10-5 victory over Stetson University (10-2), and in the process, may have shown that their early-season offensive firepower is here to stay.
 
USF entered the three-game weekend series ranked 14th in the country in hits, 23rd in batting average and 27th in slugging. Stetson's pitching staff was ranked fourth in the country in ERA, and the Bulls have already secured a series win by defeating two of the Hatters' top three starting pitchers.
 
For the second straight day against Stetson, Drew Brutcher and Roberto Pena homered, but the Bulls also manufactured plenty of offense without the longball, finishing the night with 16 hits while scoring runs in five of the first six innings of the game.
 
Carmine Lane opened the scoring with an RBI-single in the top of the first only to see the Hatters answer with a pair of runs in the bottom of the frame to take their first lead of the series. Brutcher provided the response for USF in the form of a clutch two-out three-run homer in the top of the second and the Bulls never trailed again.

Houston 3, No. 19 Texas (11 innings) - Box Score
HOUSTON -- Houston Baseball received stellar pitching and timely hitting including a walk-off home run from senior Tyler Bielamowicz to defeat No. 19 Texas, 3-2 in 11 innings on Saturday afternoon from Don Sanders Field at Darryl & Lori Schroeder Park.
 
With the win, the Cougars (7-3) evened the weekend series. Prior to his extra innings heroics, Bielamowicz had reached base via a pair of walks, but his lone hit of the game was the decisive one.
 
Houston took the lead over Texas (6-5) in the second inning as junior Kyle Lovelace (1-for-5) drove a single to center field to score Samuel Benjamin (2-for-5) from third base. Benjamin began the inning for the Cougars with a single to right field before he stole second and advanced to third on a grounder to the right side. 
 
The Longhorns tied the game in the fifth inning before taking the lead in the next frame, both on RBI-singles.
 
The Cougars clawed back in the sixth as freshmen tandem Benjamin and Will Pendergrass (3-for-5) smashed back-to-back extra base hits to even the game at 2-2. The Cougars' first two runs were scored with two outs while Bielamowicz's round-tripper came with one out.
 
Ben Sears (2-0) excelled on the mound as he tossed 5.1 innings with six strikeouts alongside a pair of walks. Sears has three starts under his belt this with at least 5.0 innings pitched, three or less earned runs and no more than two walks.
 
After Sears' exit, the Cougars turned to several arms out of the bullpen including Layne Looney, Ryne Huggins, Jaycob Deese, and Blake Schultz. As a unit, the relievers tossed 5.2 innings with seven strikeouts and only allowed five total baserunners. After keeping Texas in check to start the 11th, Schultz (2-0) earned the victory.

Tulane 5, Western Kentucky 2 - Box Score
NEW ORLEANS – The Tulane University Baseball Team (5-5) won 5-2 against Western Kentucky University (3-6) on Saturday inside Greer Field at Turchin Stadium.
 
Another great performance from the bullpen and some clutch hitting lifted Tulane to its first series win of the season.
 
Junior right-hander Donovan Benoit got the start for the Wave and went three innings. Benoit gave up two runs, one earned.
 
Junior Sean Bergeron started for WKU and tossed 5.1 innings and gave up four earned runs on six hits.
 
The Green Wave bullpen has been dominant through the first two games of the series. Relievers have allowed zero runs while striking out 15 and only giving up three hits in 10.1 innings of work.

Wichita State 15, Dixie State 3 - Box Score
WICHITA, Kan. – Garrett Kocis hit two homers and drove in a career-best seven runs, and Spencer Hynes had a career-high 11 strikeouts as the Wichita State University baseball team stampeded past the Dixie State Trailblazers, 15-3, in game two of a three-game series Saturday, March 6, at Eck Stadium Home of Tyler Field.
 
Kocis, a junior from Omaha, Neb., went yard twice for the second time this season, belting a three-run shot to dead center field in the fourth, before powering a three-run round-tripper over the left field wall in the seventh. He has now homered in three of his last five games, including two games with two home runs, and has a team-high five homers on the season.
 
Jack Sigrist, Couper Cornblum, Corrigan Bartlett, Ross Cadena and David VanVooren each collected two hits in the contest, with Cornblum tallying a pair of triples and three RBI, and Sigrist, Bartlett and VanVooren all hitting doubles.
 
A redshirt junior right-hander from Weatherford, Texas, Hynes (1-1) earned his inaugural win on the mound as a Shocker after throwing 6 1/3 innings and allowing three earned runs on four hits with 11 Ks and just two walks on 98 total pitches.

Cincinnati 5, UNCW 4 - Box Score
WILMINGTON, N.C. – A solo home run by Jake Murray on a full count in the top of the ninth was the difference in a 5-4 victory for the University of Cincinnati baseball team over UNCW on Saturday at Brooks Field.
 
Murray's first dinger of the season broke a 4-4 tie and gave their Bearcats (3-6) their second-straight win over the Seahawks (6-3).
 
Nathan Moore (1-2) picked up the win after pitching a scoreless eighth, striking out two. Beau Keathley snagged the save, pitching the ninth and inducing a double play to end the game. UC's bullpen allowed only a hit and walk in four innings of work.
 
Starter Dean McCarthy had his third-straight no decision, going Five innings, giving up four runs on six hits, three of them earned along with five strikeouts and two walks.
 
UC plated four in the top of the sixth to tie things up at 4-4. Joey Bellini led off and reached on an error. Jace Mercer hit a one-out single to center and Wyatt Stapp singled to right to load them up. Tanner Holen doubled up the middle to score Mercer and Bellini and Jake Hansen followed with a sacrifice fly to score Stapp. Cole Harting singled to center field to score Holen to cap the inning.

Baylor 9, Memphis 0 (Game 1) - Box Score
Baylor 20, Memphis 4 (Game 2) - Box Score
WACO, Texas – After a one-run loss on Friday, the Memphis Tigers couldn't keep pace with the Baylor Bears in either half of Saturday's doubleheader. Baylor handed the Tigers their first shutout of the season in a 9-0 game one loss, while the Bears' offense went wild in Memphis' 20-4 game two defeat. The Tigers have dropped the first three games in the series and have fallen in four straight after a 4-0 start.
 
In the opening game of Saturday's doubleheader, Memphis (4-4) hung around for most of the seven-inning affair. The Bears struck for a run in the opening frame against Chris Durham (L, 0-1) on an error by Jaylen Wilbon. Behind 1-0, the Tigers got just one man on base in the first two innings and didn't tally their first hit of the game until a one-out double by Wilbon off of Tyler Thomas (W, 2-0) in the third. On Wilbon's double, Nick Jones tried to score from first base but was thrown out at the plate 7-6-2, as Baylor (6-4) maintained a 1-0 lead after 2.5 innings.
 
The Bears gave themselves some breathing room with three runs in the third. Durham hit Jared McKenzie with a pitch to begin the frame, and he advanced to third base on a wild pitch and passed ball. An RBI single from Andy Thomas doubled the Baylor lead, while a two-run base hit from Jack Pineda made it 4-0 Bears. Durham allowed four runs, three earned, on six hits, over three innings.
 
Memphis' offense never got anything going against Thomas, who allowed just two hits and struck out nine over six innings. Jones tallied the Tigers' only other hit against the Baylor starter in the fifth, but he never advanced past first base. Baylor put the game away against Bailey Wimberley in the sixth inning, as 11 men came to the plate and the Bears scored five runs. Thomas and Kyle Nevin each had an RBI single, while Wimberley walked in three runs. Baylor led 9-0, while Hambleton Oliver worked around a walk and HBP in a scoreless seventh inning that secured Baylor's 9-0 shutout win.
 
The back half of the doubleheader saw the Tigers hold the lead midway through the nine-inning matchup, but Baylor exploded for 14 runs over the fifth and sixth innings combined. The Bears struck for one run in the first and two in the third against Jackson Cothren (L,0-1), but the Tigers got to Cam Caley (ND) for four runs in the fourth frame.
 
The first five Memphis hitters in the fourth inning reached base, as Alec Trela got the Tigers on the board with a two-run double. Two batters later, Braden Webb tied the game with a safety squeeze bunt single, while Ian Bibiloni put Memphis ahead with a run-scoring infield base hit. The four-run inning gave Memphis a 4-3 lead, though the Bears outscored Memphis 17-0 the rest of the way.
 
A six-run fifth inning preceded an eight-run sixth frame for the Bears. Cothren got just one out in the fifth inning, while Carson Stinnett was charged with three runs as he got the final two outs in the frame. Cothren struck out three, walked three, and was charged with five earned runs over 4.1 innings. Stinnett allowed three hits and issued a walk over 0.2 innings. A pair of RBI doubles from Davion Downey and Jacob Schoenvogel highlighted the six-run inning for the Bears, who led 9-4 after five.
 
Baylor put the game on ice with eight runs on only three hits in the sixth. Logan Walters entered the game out of the bullpen for Memphis to start the inning and issued consecutive walks to begin his outing. Thomas came away with an RBI double, while Downy tallied two more RBIs on a single. Dalton Kendrick relieved Walters but walked in two runs and gave up a two-run double to Tre Richardson. Baylor led 17-4 after six innings. The Bears added three runs in the eighth inning against Takoda Metoxen and ran away with a 20-4 blowout win.