East Carolina won the first game of the series between the American Athletic Conference's top two baseball squads in Friday action (May 7).

Friday, May 7
East Carolina 12, Tulane 4 - Box Score
UCF 6, Wichita State 3 (Game 1) - Box Score
Wichita State 11, UCF 1 (Game 2 - 8 innings) - Box Score
Memphis 3, USF 1 (Game 1) - Box Score
USF 9, Memphis 2 (Game 2) - Box Score
Cincinnati 7, Houston 2 (Game 1) - Box Score
Cincinnati 7, Houston 0 (Game 2) - Box Score

East Carolina 12, Tulane 4 - Box Score
GREENVILLE, N.C. – Gavin Williams struck out nine while his offense pounded out 16 hits including three home runs, lifting No. 13 East Carolina to a 12-4 win over No. 22 Tulane Friday afternoon at Lewis Field inside Clark-LeClair Stadium in American Athletic Conference action. With the win the Pirates improve to 31-9 on the year and 13-4 in league play, while the Green Wave drop to 24-15 and 13-3.
 
ECU plated the first run of the game in the second inning taking an early 1-0 lead. Zach Agnos singled up the middle which was followed by an infield hit by Lane Hoover putting runners on first and second. Bryson Worrell dropped down a sac bunt moving both runners into scoring position and Seth Caddell's ground out to third pushed across Agnos.
 
Back-to-back home runs by Worrell and Caddell highlighted a three-run fourth inning for the Pirates who extended their lead to 4-0 and never looked back. Agnos led off with a double and would later score on a wild pitch for the first run. Worrell blasted his fifth homer of the season with a solo shot to right-center and Caddell followed with his team-leading 12th home run sending a shot to left field.
 
Williams (7-0) gave up a pair of runs (both earned) on five hits with a walk and nine strikeouts in 5.1 innings. The righty has fanned nine or more batters in six consecutive starts, which includes his five-straight in league play. He fanned at least one in all six innings he worked including multiple in the first three. Cam Colmore tossed two scoreless frames with three strikeouts, while Landon Ginn allowed two runs (both earned) on four hits after facing six batters. C.J. Mayhue struck out two and walked three in two-thirds of a frame and Josh Grosz worked a scoreless ninth.
 
Braden Olthoff (5-2) allowed four runs (all earned) on nine hits with a pair of strikeouts in four innings. Jake McDonald gave up two runs (one earned) in one-plus inning of relief work. The Green Wave used six arms out of the bullpen getting work from Jake McDonald (1.0 IP, 2 Rs, 2 Ks), Keaton Knueppel (0.2 IP, 1 K) David Bates (0.2 IP, 2 Rs), Justin Campbell (0.0 IP, 1 R), Lane Thomas (0.2 IP, 3 Rs, 1 K) and Turner Thompson (1.0 IP, 2 Ks).

UCF 6, Wichita State 3 (Game 1) - Box Score
UCF came from down 3-1 in the fifth inning to win the first game, 6-3, in Orlando.

Ben McCabe hit a bases-loaded triple in the bottom of the fifth inning to take a 4-3 lead for the Knights and extended the lead on RBI singles by Jordan Rathbone and Pablo Ruiz.

Hunter Patterson (2-2) earned the win after allowing three runs in 5.1 innings of work with nine strikeouts. Preston Snavely took the loss (3-5), giving up four runs in 4.1 innings. 

Wichita State 11, UCF 1 (Game 2 - 8 innings) - Box Score
ORLANDO – Wichita State baseball split a doubleheader to open a four-game American Athletic Conference series at UCF Friday, May 7, at John Euliano Park, falling to the Knights in game one, 6-3, before run-ruling UCF in game two, 11-1 in eight innings.
 
Wichita State (23-18, 11-10 American) and UCF (23-23, 13-9 American) are slated to play game three of the series at 3 p.m. CT (4 p.m. ET) Saturday, May 8.
 
After faltering in game one, the Shockers responded emphatically in game two, clobbering four home runs on their way to the 11-1, eight-inning victory.
 
Hunter Gibson paced WSU in the nightcap, going a career-best 4-for-5 with a pair of homers, a double and six RBI, while Jack Sigrist added a trio of hits, including a home run and double, and Seth Stroh tallied three hits, including a triple.
 
Corrigan Bartlett also homered in the contest and drove in two runs, respectively.
 
Freshman right-hander Jace Kaminska continued his dominance on the mound, improving to 6-0 on the season after tossing six innings and allowing just one earned run on five hits with six strikeouts and one walk.

Memphis 3, USF 1 (Game 1) - Box Score
MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Behind a dominant starting pitching performance from Carson Stinnett (W, 3-4) and two early RBI hits, including a solo home run, from Hunter Goodman, the Memphis Tigers picked up a 3-1 victory in game one of Friday's doubleheader vs. the USF Bulls. In the back half of the twin bill, USF struck early and often in route to a 9-2 victory that split the doubleheader.
 
In what has become somewhat of a trend for the Tigers, they picked up a win in the opening half of the series-opening doubleheader, as three of their four conference wins this season have come in the opening game of the series, all of which have begun with a twin bill. Stinnett faltered in the opening frame, as three straight Bulls reached with one out, while Joaquin Monque gave USF (18-22, 8-10) the early 1-0 lead with a sacrifice fly. Stinnett stranded two runners in the frame and then saw just two more runners reach scoring position over the next five innings. Stinnett allowed just one run on two hits as he struck out six over six frames in the win.
 
Memphis (14-30, 4-18) quickly erased the first inning deficit, as Braden Webb reached on an error by Nick Gonzalez to begin the inning, while Zach Wilson followed with a walk. Goodman tied the game with an RBI single off of Dylan Burns (L, 3-4), and Ian Bibiloni put the Tigers ahead with a bunt single that plated Wilson. Burns stranded two men in scoring position in the inning and gave up a solo home run to Goodman to lead off the third, but then retired the final 15 batters that he faced. Goodman's AAC-best 15th home run of the year gave Memphis a 3-1 lead, the eventual final.
 
After six frames from Stinnett, Bailey Wimberley retired six of the seven batters that he faced across the seventh and eighth frames, while Takoda Metoxen (SV, 4) worked around a leadoff single in the ninth and retired the next three batters to close out Memphis' 3-1 win.

USF 9, Memphis 2 (Game 2) - Box Score
USF followed the same script in the nightcap by taking a 1-0 lead in the first frame. Monque delivered the first run of the game again, this time, with a two-out RBI-single.
 
Once more, Memphis was aided by a USF error and answered with two runs in the home half of the inning off Jasiak to claim a 2-1 advantage.
 
Unlike the opener, the Bulls' offense had plenty left in the tank, and proceeded to score eight unanswered runs, including five over the next three innings.
 
Carmine Lane put the Bulls in front for good with a two-run double in the top of the second. Roberto Peña led off the third with a double and came around to score on an RBI-single by Jake Sullivan. Julio Cortez capped the inning with a sacrifice fly to pad the USF lead to 5-2.
 
In the fourth, Lane circled the bases with his second home run in three games to make it a 6-2 affair.
 
Monque and Sullivan each tacked on a run in the eighth, and Jarrett Eaton scored the final run of the game in the ninth.
 
With his offensive doing the heavy lifting, Jasiak (3-7) settled in nicely after surrendering a pair in the first frame. The right-hander allowed two runs (one earned) on only four hits over 7.1 IP.

Cincinnati 7, Houston 2 (Game 1) - Box Score
HOUSTON – University of Cincinnati left-handed pitcher Garrett Schoenle pitched his first career complete game Friday, going the distance in a 7-2 win over Houston in an American Athletic Conference series opener Friday at Schroeder Park. 
 
The Bearcats moved to 20-18 on the season, 9-8 in AAC play while Houston dropped to 16-24, 4-14 in league games.
 
Schoenle (5-2) tossed a career-high 127 pitches, carrying the shutout into the ninth inning where he surrendered a pair of runs. The senior gave up 10 hits, struck out three – a season low – with a pair of walks. He worked out of a bases-loaded jam in the eighth as the Cougars stranded nine.
 
It was the first nine-inning complete game for a Bearcats hurler since. J.T. Perez against No. 24 UConn on April 20, 2018. Zach Segal, UC's starter in game two of the series, threw a seven-inning complete game at UC Baseball Stadium two weeks ago.
 
Offensively, Jace Mercer was on base five times, going 4-for-4 with a run scored, double and walk.

Cincinnati 7, Houston 0 (Game 2) - Box Score
HOUSTON – The University of Cincinnati baseball team used a strong pitching performance from Zach Segal and a pair of big offensive innings to sweep a Friday doubleheader over Houston, 7-0 in the nightcap at Schroeder Park.
 
Cincinnati (21-18, 10-8 American Athletic Conference) hurlers Segal and Max Bergmann combined on the team's second shutout of the season with Segal going eight innings and Bergmann tossing a 1-2-3 ninth inning.
 
Segal scattered four hits with three strikeouts and three walks, throwing a season-high 109 pitches as he moved to 5-3 on the season. He worked out of a bases-loaded, no-outs jam in the eighth, striking out two batters and inducing a line out.
 
Jace Mercer got the Bearcats on the board with two outs in the fifth, doubling to the left-field corner to score Wyatt Stapp. Mercer scored on the next play as Joey Bellini reached on an error by the UH third baseman, one of three errors for the Cougars in the game.
 
The errors came to haunt UH in the sixth when Griffin Merritt reached on a throwing error after a strikeout which scored Ryan Nicholson. Tanner Holen scored on a wild pitch to Stapp and Cole Harting later reached on a fielder's choice which scored Merritt and UC led 6-0.