Four American Athletic Conference baseball squads picked up wins in action on Sunday, March 26.

Sunday, March 26
East Carolina 5, George Mason 0 (8 innings) - Box Score
Houston 18, UT Arlington 9 - Box Score
Wichita State 14, UMass 2 (7 innings) - Box Score
Butler 8, Cincinnati 5 - Box Score
Cincinnati 13, Butler 3 (7 innings) - Box Score
Maryland 8, UCF 6 - Box Score
VCU 25, South Florida 15 - Box Score
Oral Roberts 10, Memphis 3 - Box Score
Hawaii 5, Tulane 1 - Box Score

East Carolina 5, George Mason 0 (8 innings) - Box Score
GREENVILLE, N.C. – Junior RHP Josh Grosz tossed the first complete-game shutout for East Carolina since 2021 Sunday as the 10th-ranked Pirates completed a series sweep of George Mason by a 5-0 score at Lewis Field inside Clark-LeClair Stadium. The contest was called in the middle of the eighth inning due to ongoing rain and lightning in the area.
 
ECU (19-5) continued its utter dominance at home, winning its 12th-straight decision inside the friendly confines to improve to 16-1 at the facility. The Patriots (11-12) head back to Fairfax having lost four straight. The Pirates also won their sixth-straight weekend series to begin the season and registered their fourth series sweep.
 
A quartet of Pirates were responsible for eight of East Carolina's 11 hits as Jacob Starling, Justin Wilcoxen, Joey Berini and Carter Cunningham each finished with two. Wilcoxen added two runs scored and an RBI, extending his current hitting streak to 11 games in the process. South Trimble went 2-for-3 to pace the visitors.
 
Grosz (4-0) remained undefeated on the mound, tossing a career-high eight innings while scattering five hits and striking out five against one walk. Konner Eaton (0-1) marked the third-straight George Mason pitcher to suffer its first loss of the campaign as the Pirates touched him up for three runs on eight hits.

Houston 18, UT Arlington 9 - Box Score
HOUSTON – University of Houston Baseball third baseman Zach Arnold crushed three home runs and accounted for seven RBIs as the Cougars registered their seventh game in the last eight opportunities, defeating UT Arlington, 18-9, Sunday afternoon from Sanders Field at Schroeder Park.
 
Houston (12-12) climbed to .500 for the first time this season. The Cougars have scored 10-plus runs in consecutive games and third time in the last four matchups. The 20 hits set a season high and came off the bat of nine different players. The 20 hits were the most for Houston since June 3, 2017, against Baylor in the NCAA Tournament.
 
The Cougars snapped UT Arlington's (12-13) four-game win streak. Houston's offense crushed seven home runs, one shy of the school record of eight set on Feb. 27, 2021, at A&M-Corpus Christi.
 
Arnold's three home runs were the most for a Cougar since Ryan Hernandez clubbed three against UT Arlington on March 27, 2021. The seven-RBI performance was the first for a Cougar since Steven Rivas did so at Texas State on March 13, 2021.

Wichita State 14, UMass 2 (7 innings) - Box Score
WICHITA, Kan. -- After failing to score in each of the first three innings, Wichita State exploded for 14 runs over the next three frames to run-rule Massachusetts 14-2 on Sunday afternoon at Eck Stadium. It was the third consecutive run-rule victory in the series for the Shockers, who bested the Minutemen 12-2 in each of the first two games of the set.

The Shockers (13-10) could not solve UMass starter Jack Steele, who held the Shockers off the board for three innings while the Minutemen (3-12) took a 1-0 lead. But Wichita State broke through in the fourth against the UMass bullpen, scoring three times with two outs. Kyte McDonald started the rally by drawing a walk and stealing two bases, setting the stage for a Seth Stroh RBI double that tied the game at 1-1. Jack Little followed by slicing a run-scoring triple to the gap in right-center, and Chuck Ingram knocked Little home with an RBI single for a 3-1 lead.

The Minutemen had a huge opportunity to answer back in the top of the fifth, pulling a run back on an RBI single from Zack Zaetta and then loading the bases with one out. Reliever Jace Miner was able to thwart the rally, coming on to record a strike out and soft line out to escape with the lead still intact at 3-2.

WSU added two runs in the fifth via a McDonald sacrifice fly and UMass throwing error, then blew the game open with a nine-run bottom of the sixth. The first ten batters in the inning all reached, highlighted by a pair of two-run singles from Garrett Pennington and Little, plus RBI knocks from David Herring, McDonald and Ingram. The Minutemen contributed two errors in the inning, helping the Shockers to a 14-2 advantage.

Butler 8, Cincinnati 5 - Box Score
Cincinnati 13, Butler 3 (7 innings) - Box Score
CINCINNATI – The University of Cincinnati baseball team won its three-game series against Butler on Sunday inside UC Baseball Stadium. 
 
The Bearcats (11-14) split Sunday's doubleheader, falling 8-5 in the middle game of the series before earning a 13-3 run-rule victory in the rubber match. UC picked up its second series win of the season. 

Redshirt junior outfielder Josh Hegemann went 2-for-4 with a career-high three RBI in the first game of the doubleheader.
 
Cincinnati stole a season-high nine bases – one shy of the program record – in the series finale. Sophomore Lauden Brooks went 2-for-3 with his first career triple and stole a career-high three bases. Freshman Landyn Vidourek and redshirt junior JP Sponseller each homered in the win. 

Maryland 8, UCF 6 - Box Score
ORLANDO – The UCF baseball team fell two runs short of a ninth-inning comeback in the series finale against the Maryland Terrapins, 8-6.

Maryland's Kyle McCoy, freshman left-hander, had a dominant performance on the mound to set up the victory for the Terrapins, blanking the Knights and allowing only three hits through eight innings.

Jacob Marlowe held Maryland to three runs through 7 innings, tying his career-long outing and setting a new career record in single-game strikeouts with six. Working efficiently, Marlowe surrendered only one walk and worked two 1-2-3 innings using only five pitches.

The first run didn't score until the top of the fourth, when the Terrapins plated one on an RBI single from Matt Woods. Maryland shortstop Matt Shaw, who went 4-5 on the day, had home runs in back-to-back at bats in the sixth and eighth innings, scoring four.

VCU 25, South Florida 15 - Box Score
TAMPA (March 26, 2023) – The University of South Florida (9-16) and VCU (12-12) combined for 40 runs on 43 hits Sunday afternoon as the Rams out-slugged the Bulls, 25-15, in the finale of a three-game weekend series at USF Baseball Stadium.

VCU won the series by claiming Friday's opener, 18-3, before South Florida won a 9-0 shutout on Saturday, and the Rams' offense bounced back for Sunday's triumph.

The Rams scored in eight of nine innings on Sunday while the Bulls plated runs in six different frames. VCU posted five runs in three separate innings while USF put four runs on the board three times.

USF erased an 8-1 deficit in the ballgame and tied the score at 9-9 in the fourth inning before VCU ultimately ran away with the win.

All 18 starters combined recorded at least one hit in the game while eight of USF's nine starters recorded at least one RBI.

Oral Roberts 10, Memphis 3 - Box Score
MEMPHIS, Tenn. – The University of Memphis baseball team fell to Oral Roberts, 10-3, on Sunday at FedExPark Avron Fogelman Field in the rubber match of a three-game series. The Tigers got out to an early 3-1 lead on homeruns by Anthony Hansen and Will Spears, but a pair of three-run innings late by ORU were the difference in the game.
 
With the setback, Memphis fell to 14-11 on the season. The Golden Eagles improved to 16-9 on the season with the win after having a five-game winning streak snapped by the Tigers on Saturday.

Hawaii 5, Tulane 1 - Box Score
HONOLULU -- Hawaii used two home runs to defeat Tulane, 5-1, in Sunday's series finale at Les Murakami Stadium.

Ricky Castro allowed two runs in 6.0 innings for the Green Wave (6-18), while Tulane's lone run came when Jake LaPrairie scored on a Hawaii error in the fifth inning.