TicketsCINCINNATI – The University of Cincinnati baseball team fell to No. 14-ranked East Carolina, 6-5 (10), in the series finale on Sunday afternoon at UC Baseball Stadium.
The Bearcats (20-27, 8-10 AAC) erased a three-run deficit and held the lead heading into the eighth before falling in extra innings. The Pirates completed the three-game sweep of the Bearcats.
Juniors Cole Harting and Ryan Nicholson each homered in the game while Harting drove in three runs on his eighth home run of the year. Junior Josh Hegemann added two hits and one run scored.
Senior Mitch White retired 13 straight batters in a career-long 4.1 innings in relief. He struck out three batters in the perfect outing.
The Bearcats used five pitchers in the game. Freshman Griffin Hugus (1-2) took the loss on the mound.
// HOW IT HAPPENED
East Carolina jumped out to an early 2-0 lead on a pair of doubles in the first inning.
The Bearcats had an answer for the Pirates in the home half of the frame. Hegemann notched a lead-off single to center field. Harting drew a two-out walk and Kameron Guidry singled to third base to load the bases for CJ Dean. Dean checked into the game and drilled a base hit to the pitcher to plate the Bearcats' first run.
ECU capitalized on two walks, one hit-by-pitch and an error in the top of the third to extend its advantage to 4-1.
Nicholson hammered a one-out, opposite field shot in the bottom of the third. The redshirt junior slugger snuck a 2-2 pitch inside the left field foul pole to bring the Bearcats within two. It marked his team-leading 12th homer of the season and 29th of his career.
Harting gave Cincinnati its first lead of the weekend on a three-run homer in the bottom of the fifth. The two-out, opposite field shot went 383 feet off Fifth Third Arena.
White came out of the bullpen in the third and retired 13 straight batters before handing over the game to Alex Shea in the eighth. ECU tied the ballgame on an RBI groundout in the inning.
Cincinnati was unable to capitalize in the final two frames as the game went into extra innings. ECU plated one run on two hits in the top of the 10th for the 6-5 final score.
// UP NEXT
Cincinnati hosts crosstown rival Xavier at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, May 9 inside UC Baseball Stadium.
The Bearcats (20-27, 8-10 AAC) erased a three-run deficit and held the lead heading into the eighth before falling in extra innings. The Pirates completed the three-game sweep of the Bearcats.
Juniors Cole Harting and Ryan Nicholson each homered in the game while Harting drove in three runs on his eighth home run of the year. Junior Josh Hegemann added two hits and one run scored.
Senior Mitch White retired 13 straight batters in a career-long 4.1 innings in relief. He struck out three batters in the perfect outing.
The Bearcats used five pitchers in the game. Freshman Griffin Hugus (1-2) took the loss on the mound.
// HOW IT HAPPENED
East Carolina jumped out to an early 2-0 lead on a pair of doubles in the first inning.
The Bearcats had an answer for the Pirates in the home half of the frame. Hegemann notched a lead-off single to center field. Harting drew a two-out walk and Kameron Guidry singled to third base to load the bases for CJ Dean. Dean checked into the game and drilled a base hit to the pitcher to plate the Bearcats' first run.
ECU capitalized on two walks, one hit-by-pitch and an error in the top of the third to extend its advantage to 4-1.
Nicholson hammered a one-out, opposite field shot in the bottom of the third. The redshirt junior slugger snuck a 2-2 pitch inside the left field foul pole to bring the Bearcats within two. It marked his team-leading 12th homer of the season and 29th of his career.
Harting gave Cincinnati its first lead of the weekend on a three-run homer in the bottom of the fifth. The two-out, opposite field shot went 383 feet off Fifth Third Arena.
White came out of the bullpen in the third and retired 13 straight batters before handing over the game to Alex Shea in the eighth. ECU tied the ballgame on an RBI groundout in the inning.
Cincinnati was unable to capitalize in the final two frames as the game went into extra innings. ECU plated one run on two hits in the top of the 10th for the 6-5 final score.
// UP NEXT
Cincinnati hosts crosstown rival Xavier at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, May 9 inside UC Baseball Stadium.