All four road teams won in American Athletic Conference baseball action on Saturday, May 15. With East Carolina winning and Tulane losing, the Pirates moved back into first place in the conference standings.

Saturday, May 15
USF 7, Wichita State 1 - Box Score
Houston 7, Memphis 5 - Box Score
East Carolina 7, Cincinnati 6 - Box Score
UCF 6, Tulane 4 - Box Score

USF 7, Wichita State 1 - Box Score
WICHITA, Kan. – The USF Bulls (22-23, 12-11 AAC) launched a season-high four home runs on Saturday at Wichita State (26-20, 14-12 AAC) to breeze past the Shockers, 7-1, behind a quality start on the mound from Jack Jasiak.
 
The Bulls' offense matched a season high with seven extra-base hits in the win. Carmine Lane recorded the first two home run game of his career and set a new high in RBI (4). Roberto Peña and Jake Sullivan also went deep for USF.
 
Sullivan sparked the fireworks with a leadoff homer in the second inning – his first of the season. Lane followed suit in the third by leading off the frame with a round-tripper. The redshirt freshman connected on his second longball, a two-run shot, in the fourth inning. Four of Lane's seven home runs this season have come in the past eight games.
 
Peña belted his team-leading 10th homer in the seventh inning, and Lane drew a bases-loaded walk later in the frame for good measure as the USF lead swelled to 7-0.
 
The Shockers snuffed out Jasiak's shutout bid in the bottom of the seventh, before Logan Lyle entered in relief to blank the home team for the remainder of the ballgame.

Houston 7, Memphis 5 - Box Score
MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Houston erased an early four-run deficit, scoring seven of the game's final eight runs to overtake Memphis, 7-5 and grab the series lead on Saturday afternoon from FedEx Park.
 
The Cougars scored in four consecutive innings between the third and sixth. Eight different batters recorded a hit including Tyler Bielamowicz who finished 2-for-4. Skyler Trevino (0-for-2) reached base twice and scored two runs. Ryan Hernandez (1-for-4) drove in two runs.
 
Houston (19-27, 7-16 AAC) put two across in the fifth, taking a 5-4 lead on a Dylan Post sacrifice fly. The Cougars sent seven batters to the plate in the frame and evened things up on an RBI-double from Steven Rivas.
 
Houston closer Derrick Cherry was strong in relief, locking up his fifth save and second in as many days. The right-hander used three pitches to strand two runners in the sixth and struck out Hunter Goodman to secure the win in the ninth. Cherry tossed 3.1 innings, allowing two hits and one run alongside four strikeouts.
 
After allowing four runs in the first inning, Houston starter Carter Henry (2-4) settled down. The senior allowed seven hits and four runs in 5.2 innings but held Memphis to 2-for-8 (.250) with runners in scoring position. He fanned a season-high six batters alongside three walks.

East Carolina 7, Cincinnati 6 - Box Score
CINCINNATI, Ohio – No. 11 East Carolina scored four tuns in the seventh inning and held on for a 7-6 win over Cincinnati Saturday afternoon at UC Stadium in American Athletic Conference play. With the win, the Pirates improve to 35-11 overall and 17-6 in league play while the Bearcats drop to 25-23 and 14-13.
 
Trailing 5-3 heading to the seventh, the Pirates plated four runs on four hits to take a two-run lead at 7-5. Connor Norby got the inning going with a leadoff double to left field and Thomas Francisco followed with an single through the left side putting runners on the corners. Seth Caddell singled to left pushing across Norby and cutting the lead to one at 5-4. Lane Hoover loaded the bases when he was hit by a Nathan Moore pitch and Zach Agnos walked tying the game at five all. Bryson Worrell's sac fly to right field plated Caddell and Josh Moylan's RBI single through the left side pushing across Hoover.
 
Cincinnati cut the score to one, 7-6, in the eighth inning on Tanner Holen's RBI single up the middle. But the Bearcats left the bases loaded when C.J. Mayhue struck out Cole Harting to end the stanza.
 
Garrett Saylor (4-1) earned the win in relief allowing a hit with three strikeouts in 1.2 innings. Mayhue earned his seventh save tossing 1.1 scoreless frames with one strikeout after entering the game in the eighth with two on and two outs. Starter Carson Whisenhunt gave up three runs (two earned) on five hits with a walk and four pun chouts in 4.1 innings. ECU also got bullpen outings from Carter Spivey (0.0 IP 2 Rs), Matt Bridges (1.1 IP, 1 Ru, 2 Ks) and A.J. Wilson (0.1 IP).
 
Moore (2-3) took the loss after he was touched for four runs (all earned) on three hits with a walk in one inning of work. Starter Evan Shawver gave up three runs (all earned) on six hits with a pair of walks and three strikeouts in five innings. Jackson Murphy tossed three scoreless innings of relief allowing one hit.

UCF 6, Tulane 4 - Box Score
New Orleans, La. – Looking to bounce back on Saturday, the UCF baseball team picked up a win on Saturday in the third game of the series, 6-4. With the victory, Greg Lovelady earns his 150th win as the head coach of the Knights, and UCF moves to 24-27 (14-13 AAC) on the year, and even with Cincinnati in the fifth position in the American Athletic Conference standings.
 
The Tulane offense picked up where they left off on Friday, tagging Jack Sinclair for three runs on a pair of doubles and a single in the first inning. Sinclair settled in, in the second and went on to toss 7.1 total IP allowing just one more run in the contest to finish with 4 ER, 4 Ks, and 2 BBs.
 
With Jack Sinclair holding the Green Wave offense off the board, the Knights relied on the long ball to take the lead. Alex Freeland and Andrew Brait got the scoring going, with a pair of singles in the second as Brait picks up his eighth RBI of the year.
 
Ben McCabe picked up his 12th home run of the season, a two-run shot to even the game, 3-3 in the third inning. In the fifth, Josh Crouch slugged a two-run homer, his 10th of the year to give UCF a 5-3 lead.
 
Aviles added a solo home run for the Green Wave in the sixth, making the game a one-run contest. Not wanting to be left out of the long ball party, Jordan Rathbone picked up his own solo home run in the top of the seventh.
 
With the two-run advantage at 7-5, Billy McKay threw the final 1.2 IP to earn the save, his first of the year.