Baseball Defeats Florida Atlantic 6-4 on Sunday

Sunday, May 4

New Orleans

12 p.m.

Tulane University

28-20, 11-10

Florida Atlantic

31-16, 12-9

Florida Atlantic

Tulane Green Wave

Photo by: Parker Waters

Baseball Defeats Florida Atlantic 6-4 on Sunday

May 4, 2025 | Baseball

Box Score

New Orleans – The Tulane baseball team (28-20, 11-10 AAC) won the third game of the series over visiting Florida Atlantic (31-16, 12-9 AAC) by a 6-4 score on Sunday, May 4, on Greer Field at Turchin Stadium.

Blaise Wilcenski (5-3) started and went the first 4.1 innings to earn the win in a pre-determined pitch count. He allowed four hits and one walk with four strikeouts. Carter Benbrook took over in the fifth and threw 2.2 innings with four runs allowed (three earned) and two strikeouts. Julius Ejike-Charles was unable to retire man in allowing a walk and a hit. Jacob Moore closed the game out with two scoreless innings with two strikeouts.

Theo Bryant IV had two hits and two RBIs plus a run scored. Kaikea Harrison tallied a three hit performance with a run scored. James Agabedis III had a hit, a walk, a run scored and an RBI. Tanner Chun totaled a hit and a run scored plus a walk. Hugh Pinkney had a pair of hits. Matthias Haas had a hit and a walk. Gavin Schulz scored a run and had a walk. Connor Rasmussen drove in a run. Jason Wachs reached base safely four times with a hit and three walks plus scored a run.

Tulane scored first with three runs in the second inning on Agabedis' RBI double followed by a two-run home run from Bryant.

The Green Wave added three runs in the fourth inning on a bases loaded walk to Rasmussen, a wild pitch to score Wachs and an infield single from Pinkney.

FAU broke through for a run, 6-1, in the sixth inning on Nick Romano's RBI ground out.

The Owls scored three in the top of the seventh to draw to within two, 6-4, on a pinch hit single by Carter Brady, an RBI ground out by Marshall Lipsey and an infield single by John Martinez.

Moore entered in the eighth inning and shut the door to give Tulane a 6-4 victory.

Next, Tulane keeps the homestand going and hosts UNO on Tuesday, May 6, at 6:30 p.m. on Greer Field at Turchin Stadium.

Notables
The win improved Tulane's all-time record to 5-3 all-time Florida Atlantic with all eight games being played the last two years…The win was Blaise Wilcenski's team leading fifth of the season…Theo Bryant IV has now hit all four of his home runs this season in conference games…He is hitting .342 in league-only games this season…Jacob Moore's save was his first of the season and the seventh of his career…He is now five saves from moving into the top-10 in career saves at Tulane…The Green Wave improved the record to 6-2 in two-run games this season…Tulane's 21 home wins this year are the most for the program since the 2019 season (22)…The Green Wave improved the record to 9-3 in the final game of a three-game series this year…Jason Wachs extended his on-base streak to a career-high 16 games…In that period of time, Wachs is hitting .408 with 19 runs, 20 hits, eight doubles and 13 walks plus an on-base percentage of .523...The three hit game by Kaikea Harrison was the first of his Tulane career.

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