A walk-off home run from redshirt senior catcher Alex Mycek gave the East Carolina University softball team a 3-2 extra-innings win in the American Athletic Conference opener against the University of Houston on Friday in Greenville.
ECU (15-16, 1-0 AAC) started off the game by jumping ahead 2-0 in the first inning. Redshirt sophomore Tate McClellan singled to score freshman outfielder Tyler King, and junior catcher Ashley Weingartz followed it up with another single to score McClellan. Houston (19-10, 0-1 AAC) immediately responded in the top of the second inning with two runs of its own. The game would turn into a pitchers duel the rest of the way, with neither team scoring any more runs, taking the game into extra innings.