Tulane pulled even with East Carolina atop the American Athletic Conference baseball standings with a win on Friday, April 22.

Friday, April 22
Tulane 11, East Carolina 5 - Box Score
South Florida 10, Cincinnati 9 - Box Score
UCF 8, Wichita State 5 - Box Score
Memphis 11, Houston 9 - Box Score

Tulane 11, East Carolina 5 - Box Score
NEW ORLEANS – The Tulane University baseball team (25-13-1; 7-3) cruised to an 11-5 victory over East Carolina University (23-16; 7-3) on Friday afternoon inside Greer Field at Turchin Stadium. 
 
The Green Wave offense exploded on Friday, scoring ten runs in the first four innings against last season's AAC regular season champions. 
 
With the win, Tulane and ECU are now tied atop The American's standings with matching 7-3 conference records.

Shortstop Trevor Minder had two hits and a career-high five RBI, powering the Green Wave offense.
 
Sophomore Dylan Carmouche took the hill for the Wave and allowed four earned runs while striking out four over seven innings of work. 
 
Junior Ryder Giles got his sixth start of the season and gave up four earned runs on four hits over 2.2 innings of work. 

South Florida 10, Cincinnati 9 - Box Score
CINCINNATI, Ohio – The University of South Florida Bulls were three outs away from letting one get away on Friday night in the opener of a three-game series at the University of Cincinnati.

A pair of costly errors came back to bite the Bulls and erase an early 3-0 lead, but South Florida rallied for three runs in the top of the ninth inning to come from behind and hold on for a 10-9 victory.

Sonny Rao delivered the game-winning runs with a one-out double in the ninth to lift USF's record to 22-16 (3-7 American). Cincinnati falls to 16-20 (6-4) with the loss.

Friday was the Bulls' third win this season when entering the ninth inning without the lead.

Trailing 8-7 heading to the top of the ninth, Carmine Lane and Jackson Mayo singled to open the frame. Marcus Brodil was next and tallied his third hit of the night on a perfectly placed sacrifice bunt attempted that resulted in an infield single to load the bases. Joaquin Monque promptly tied the game with a sacrifice fly and Rao followed with a two-run double to the right-center field gap.

The bottom of the ninth was anything but easy as the back-and-forth tilt required all 27 outs to declare a victor. The Bearcats loaded the bases with no outs and quickly made it a one-run ballgame with a sacrifice fly. The next Cincinnati hitter walked to reload the bases and put the tying and winning runs into scoring position.

Despite a shaky outing in the ninth, Hunter Mink locked in amidst the high-pressure situation and struck out the next two batters to close out the dramatic win and secure his eighth save of the season.

UCF 8, Wichita State 5 - Box Score
WICHITA, Kan. – UCF Baseball (22-16, 6-4) scored five of its eight runs on Friday evening via the long ball to down Wichita State (13-25, 2-8), 8-5. Ben Vespi improves to 3-2 on the season, working 4.1 innings out of the pen to shut down the Shockers. Vespi struck out five batters and did not allow a hit until the ninth inning.
 
In the top of the second, Michael Brooks opened the scoring with a two-run home run to center field. Wichita State tied the game with a pair of runs in the bottom of the second to level the game at 2-2. In the third, UCF regained the lead with a singled to third base, allowing Lex Boedicker to score on an error.
 
Wichita State responded in the bottom of the third to take a 4-3 lead, before the Knights broke through in the sixth. Tom Josten laid down a sacrifice squeeze to score Noah Orlando and two batters later Trent Taylor hit his first home run of the season, a two-run shot to left field.
 
In the seventh, Andrew Sundean crushed a no doubt home run to left field and was met at the plate by the Shockers catcher. Warnings were issued to both benches as the Knights took a 7-4 lead. In the top of the ninth, Ryan Taylor singled to left field to score Sundean from second, as the Shockers catcher dropped the ball on the tag.
 
The Shockers added pressure in the ninth, scoring a run off a double to left center field. Kyle Kramer came in with one out in the ninth to close out the game and record his third save of the season, getting two pop outs to end it.

Memphis 11, Houston 9 - Box Score
HOUSTON – Trailing 9-7 with the bases empty and two outs in the top of the ninth inning, the Memphis Tigers (18-16, 4-6) had five straight batters reach base and score four times against Houston Cougars (24-14, 5-5) RHP Ben Sears, who entered the night as one of the premiere closers in the nation and hadn't allowed more than two runs in an outing all season. The Cougars took the 9-7 lead into the ninth inning despite losing a 6-0 lead early in the series opener.
 
After Ben Sears (5-2) retired the first two hitters in the ninth, five straight Tigers reached base against the Houston closer
Austin Baskin started the rally with a single, Chris Swanberg walked on five pitches, just the second walk issued by Sears in nearly 40 innings this season, Brennan DuBose made it a one run game with an RBI double, Blake Daniels's fourth hit of the game, a two-run double, put Memphis in front 10-9, while Ian Bibiloni's third double and fourth hit of the night made it 11-9 Memphis