Tulane's shutout, which also earned the Green Wave a series win, highlighted American Athletic Conference baseball action on Saturday, April 24.

Saturday, April 24
Wichita State 6, Cincinnati 1 - Box Score
East Carolina 11, UCF 8 - Box Score
Tulane 5, Memphis 0 - Box Score
Houston 9, USF 2 (Game 1) - Box Score
USF 8, Houston 4 (Game 2 - 10 innings) - Box Score

Wichita State 6, Cincinnati 1 - Box Score
CINCINNATI, Ohio – Freshman Jace Kaminska struck out six and surrendered no earned runs, and Ross Cadena belted a pair of doubles to lift Wichita State to a 6-1 victory at Cincinnati in game three of an American Athletic Conference series Saturday, April 24, at UC Baseball Stadium.
 
The Shockers snapped a five-game losing skid with the win and improved to 20-14 overall and 8-6 in The American, while the Bearcats dropped to 18-18 on the season and 7-8 in conference action.
 
Kaminska, who hails from Caney, Kan., improved to 4-0 on the mound after scattering five hits over 5 2/3 innings and giving up one unearned run with six Ks and only two walks on 99 total pitches.
 
Cadena paced Wichita State at the plate with a pair of doubles in four at bats, while Jack Sigrist, Seth Stroh and Corrigan Bartlett each tallied one double, respectively. WSU's five doubles in the game marked a season high.

East Carolina 11, UCF 8 - Box Score
GREENVILLE, N.C. – No. 9 East Carolina's offense banged out 11 hits while the senior duo of Cam Colmore and Matt Bridges combined for nine strikeouts over five relief innings helping the Pirates to an 11-8 win over UCF in American Athletic Conference action Saturday at Lewis Field inside Clark-LeClair Stadium. With the win the Pirates improve to 28-6 overall and 10-1 in league play and the Knights fall to 18-21 and 8-7.
 
Leading 6-5 heading into the bottom of the sixth, ECU scored five runs over the next three frames and held on for the win taking two games to one advantage in the series. Thomas Francisco blasted his sixth home run of the season, a solo shot to right-center, in the sixth giving the Pirates a two-run lead at 7-5. A pair of unearned runs on Lane Hoover's bunt with two away in the seventh extended the lead, while Bryson Worrell's RBI double and Ryder Giles' sac fly accounted for both runs in the eighth for an 11-6 advantage.
 
Colmore (5-0) earned the win in relief allowing one run (earned) on two hits with a walk and four strikeouts over three innings. Starter Jake Kuchmaner gave up five runs (all earned) on eight hits in three full frames. Matt Bridges, who entered the game in the seventh with a runner on first and the Pirates up 7-6, struck outs five and allowed one hit over his two innings of work. Ryder Giles tossed the eight surrendering a pair of runs (both earned) on two hits with a pair of strikeouts.
 
AJ Jones (3-3) took the loss giving up six runs (all earned) on four hits with two walks in a third of an inning. The Knights would use four arms out of the bullpen getting outings from Billy McKay (2.1 IP, 4 BBs, 2 Ks), Ben Vespi (4.0 IP, 2 Rs, 2 Ks), Hunter Patteson (0.2 IP 3 Rs) and Nick Vieira (0.2 IP, 1 K).

Tulane 5, Memphis 0 - Box Score
MEMPHIS, Tenn. – The Tulane University baseball team (20-13; 9-1 AAC) jumped out to an early lead over the University of Memphis (12-24; 2-1) and never looked back, as it captured its ninth straight win Saturday afternoon at FedEx Park.
 
The Green Wave's current nine-game winning streak is tied for the longest in the Travis Jewett era.
 
The Green Wave's shutout victory over Memphis marked the first time since 2018 that Tulane had held a league opponent scoreless (Houston, 2-0). Tulane's shutout over the Tigers also marked the second time this season the Green Wave have held an opponent scoreless.
 
In addition, the win moved Tulane to 9-1 in league play for the first time in program history.
 
Tulane once again received a strong starting pitching effort to propel the Green Wave to their sixth straight win over Memphis this season. Redshirt junior Donovan Benoit took the ball for the Green Wave and struck out a career-high 11 batters, walked one and scattered six hits.
 
Benoit was in complete control throughout the game as he retired 11 batters in-a-row. He also struck out five straight batters at one point in the game, as Memphis failed to put a runner in scoring position until the sixth inning.
 
Offensively, Tulane finished the game with nine hits, two doubles, a home run and one triple. Sophomore Collin Burns, freshman Bennett Lee and junior Trevor Minder all collected two hits on the afternoon. In addition, both Burns and Lee extended their hitting streaks to 16 and 15 games, respectively.

Houston 9, USF 2 (Game 1) - Box Score
HOUSTON – Will Pendergrass struck a grand slam and Robert Gasser provided another strong start, helping Houston snap its seven-game losing streak with a 9-2 victory against USF in the first of two games Saturday afternoon from Don Sanders Field at Darryl & Lori Schroeder Park.
 
Houston (14-18, 2-7 AAC) clung to a one-run advantage before plating six runs in the seventh, highlighted by a 384-foot grand slam off the videoboard from Pendergrass, who entered the day with a team-best .340 home batting average.
 
Ian McMillan matched a career high with three hits highlighted by delivering a two-out, two-run single in the fourth to put Houston up 2-1. The sophomore's 17th and 18th RBIs scored Adam Becker (double) and Steven Rivas (walk) while erasing Houston's early one-run deficit.
 
Gasser (5-3) tossed a career-high 8.0 innings, working around six hits and three walks while striking out seven and allowing two runs. The southpaw has allowed two earned runs or fewer in seven of his nine starts.

USF 8, Houston 4 (Game 2 - 10 innings) - Box Score
Houston wasted little time getting its offense going in the finale, plating three runs in the first two innings for an early lead.
 
In the top of the third, Joaquin Monque and Nick Gonzalez started a USF rally with back-to-back singles, and Peña chased them both home with a three-run blast to knot the score at 3-3.
 
Neither team would plate another run over the next six innings as the Bulls and Cougars needed extras to decide the outcome. Houston had a golden opportunity to end things in regulation, putting two on with no out in the bottom of the ninth, but Orion Kerkering worked out of the jam.
 
In the 10th, the Bulls put together a five-run rally, all with two outs. A rocket off the bat of Hogan resulted in an error, but pushed the go-ahead run across the plate. Following a single by Cantu and a walk by Jake Sullivan, Matt Ruiz singled up the middle for two more runs. Monque capped the frame with an RBI-single which led one additional run and an 8-3 advantage after a Houston error.
 
The Cougars scratched across one final run in the bottom of the 10th before Logan Lyle entered in relief to nail down his third save of the season.