CLEARWATER, Fla. – Pitcher Jake Agnos worked seven shutout innings, allowing only two hits, as No. 8-seeded East Carolina advanced to the final of the American Athletic Conference Baseball Championship with a 4-0 victory against top-seeded UCF Saturday at Spectrum Field.
East Carolina (32-27) will face Houston for the American Athletic Conference Championship title Sunday at noon ET/11 a.m. CT on ESPNews. The winner will receive The American’s automatic bid to the NCAA Championship.
UCF (40-20) was eliminated from the tournament with it second loss.
Agnos allowed only a third-inning single and a seventh-inning single and walked three, but was otherwise flawless as he struck out six to silence a UCF lineup that had scored a combined 23 runs and had 32 hits in its first three tournament games.