Cincinnati used a walk-off home run to defeat Ohio State in American Athletic Conference baseball action on Wednesday, March 2.

Wednesday, March 2
Cincinnati 5, Ohio State 4 - Box Score
Tulane 10, Texas Southern 2 - Box Score
North Florida 2, South Florida 1 - Box Score

Cincinnati 5, Ohio State 4 - Box Score
CINCINNATI --The Cincinnati Bearcats rallied to score one in the ninth inning and walked it off on redshirt sophomore catcher Cam Scheler's pinch-hit solo home run off of junior Ethan Hammerberg to pick up the 5-4 victory over the Ohio State Buckeyes Wednesday in the home opener at UC Baseball Stadium. Cincinnati set a new UC Baseball Stadium attendence record with 2,451 fans at the ballpark. 

Senior pitcher Beau Keathley (1-0) got the win out of the bullpen for Cincinnati (3-3). The right-hander went 6.1 shutout innings, giving up four hits, one walk and striking out eight.

Redshirt junior Paul Komistek led the way offensively for the Bearcats, going 2-for-3 in the ballgame with a home run, a walk and an RBI. Redshirt junior Griffin Merritt put together a standout performance at the dish as well, going 1-for-4 with a home run and two RBIs. Scheler hit the big one though, going 1-for-1 for Cincinnati with a walk-off home run and an RBI.

Trailing 4-0, the Bearcats first put runs on the board in the third inning. Cincinnati scored three runs in the frame, highlighted by a two-run homer from Merritt.

The Bearcats kept the deficit at 4-3 before tying the score in the eighth. Cincinnati picked up a run on Komistek's leadoff home run off of Hammerberg, which brought the score level at 4-4.

The game remained tied until the bottom of the ninth, when Cincinnati walked it off on Scheler's one-out solo home run off of Hammerberg.

Tulane 10, Texas Southern 2 - Box Score
NEW ORLEANS- The Tulane University baseball team (8-1) defeated Texas Southern University (6-4) by a score of 10-2 on Wednesday night inside Greer Field at Turchin Stadium.
 
The Green Wave scored ten runs on nine hits. Nine Tulane pitchers took the mound, and held TSU to two hits in the Wave's fourth straight victory. Tulane has now scored 46 runs in its past three games.
 
Freshman Grant Siegel got his first start of the year for the Green Wave and went two hitless innings, striking out three. The right-hander had made three previous relief appearances for Tulane.
 
In the bottom of the second inning, junior-college transfer Seth Beckstead launched a mammoth 380-foot two-run home run over the wall in left to give the Wave a 2-0 lead. Tulane opened up a 5-0 lead in the bottom of the third when Chase Engelhard crushed a two-out, bases-clearing double off the top of the wall in left.
 
Redshirt junior Lane Thomas pitched scoreless third and fourth innings. Thomas also picked off the nation's leading base-stealer, John Thomas, at third base in the top of the fourth. TSU put up two runs in the top of the fifth and had a runner on third with two outs when Jared Hart made a sliding grab in shallow center to kill the rally.
 
Engelhard came up huge again in the bottom of the seventh, ripping a two-run double down the right field line, extending the lead to 7-2. Freshman Teo Banks followed up Engelhard with a two-RBI double of his own, the first of the outfielder's career.
 
Freshman Gavin Schulz got an at-bat in the bottom of the eighth and slapped a double to left for his first career hit. Jackson Linn followed up Schulz with an RBI-single, pushing the lead to 10-2, the final score on the night.

North Florida 2, South Florida 1 - Box Score
JACKSONVILLE – The University of South Florida (5-3) dropped its first road game of the season on Wednesday night, 2-1, at the University of North Florida (2-8). The Ospreys walked off with the victory on a two-out solo homer in the bottom of the ninth inning.

The Bulls entered the contest on a four-game winning streak with a red-hot offense that had scored 36 runs over the last four games, including seven just 24 hours prior at home against FIU.

UNF's Tony Roca stymied the South Florida lineup all night though, and blanked the Bulls while allowing just two hits and striking out eight over 7.0 IP.

Trailing 1-0 in the eighth inning, after Roca had yielded to the bullpen, Drew Brutcher unleashed on 3-0 pitch with two outs and promptly tied the game with an opposite-field home run.

Unfortunately, the Ospreys responded in the same manner with two outs in the ninth with a game-ending home run.

Jack Cebert was charged with the loss on the mound for USF, but turned in a fantastic relief appearance in his second straight outing. Cebert (1-2) entered the game with two on and no out in the bottom of the seventh and the Bulls trailing 1-0. The freshman right-hander struck out a pair and escaped the inning without any damage which led to Brutcher's game-tying homer.

Cebert struck out four total batters over 2.2 IP and allowed just the one hit. Fellow rookie Austin Grause made his first start for USF and tossed 2.2 scoreless innings. He is yet to allow a run this season over three appearances (4.2 IP).