
Baseball Takes Series With 11-3 Sunday Victory Over Eastern Kentucky
Mar 1, 2026 | Baseball
Tom Vincent (1-0) was credited with the victory after escaping a jam in the top of the eighth to keep the game tied before the offense took control in the bottom half of the frame. Jack Frankel started for the Green Wave and allowed three runs (two earned) in 5.0 innings thrown with two strikeouts. Jack Brafa was the first reliever in and had 1.2 scoreless with two strikeouts. Sam Larson contributed a scoreless inning. Jude Abbadessa pitched a scoreless ninth to secure the victory.
Matthias Haas led the offensive attack with two hits, including a home run, and three RBIs. AJ Groenveld totaled two hits, a run scored and the game-winning RBI in the eighth inning. Kaikea Harrison scored a pair of runs. Tye Wood contributed two runs scored, a hit, an RBI and a walk. Jason Wachs drove in a pair of runs plus scored one on his hit and a walk. Trent Liolios scored a run and had an RBI. Tanner Chun had a hit and an RBI. Johnny Elliott picked up a hit, two RBIs and a run scored.
The loss went to EKU's Griffin Howell (0-1). Howell surrendered six runs in 2.0 innings out of the bullpen.
Tulane scored first with two runs in the opening inning. Haas started the scoring with a sacrifice fly to plate to Harrison. A Liolios ground out scored Wood for the team's second run.
The game stayed 2-0 until the top of the sixth when EKU took the lead on RBIs from David Alvarez, Khaleei Pratt and Silas Shaffer.
The Green Wave quickly tied things up, 3-3, on a home run from Haas in the bottom of the frame.
After escaping a two-out two runners on base jam in the top of the eighth, Tulane's offense exploded for eight runs. Groeneveld drove in the first tally of the frame with a single, 4-3. He was followed by a two-run single from Elliott, 6-3. A run then came in on a throwing error by the EKU first baseman. 7-3. Wood followed with a single to plate the fourth run of the inning, 8-3. Wachs really broke things open with a two-run single, 10-3. Haas put the game fully out of reach, 11-3, with his RBI double.
Next, Tulane starts a four-game road swing with a trip to Nicholls (5-8) on Tuesday, March 3, starting at 6 p.m.
Notables
Jason Wachs extended his on-base streak to 38 games from the end of last season and the first 11 games this year with a walk today against Eastern Kentucky…The 38 games is a career high…Tye Wood has now reached base safely in all 12 games this season…Tulane has now won each of the first three weekend series this season.
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Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Vincent, Tom (1-0)
L: Howell, Griffin (0-1)
Batting:
2B: Moreno, Pedro 1
RBI: Alvarez, David 1 ; Pratt, Khaleel 1 ; Shaffer, Silas 1
SF: Shaffer, Silas 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Moreno, Pedro 1 ; Littlefield, Dylan 1 ; Alvarez, David 1
SB: Benson, Kobe 1
HBP: Moreno, Pedro 1

Batting:
2B: Groeneveld, A.J. 1 ; Haas, Matthias 1 ; Chun, Tanner 1
HR: Haas, Matthias 1
RBI: Wood, Tye 1 ; Groeneveld, A.J. 1 ; Haas, Matthias 3 ; Wachs, Jason 2 ; Liolios, Trent 1 ; Elliott, Johnny 2
SF: Haas, Matthias 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Harrison, Kaikea 2 ; Wood, Tye 2 ; Groeneveld, A.J. 1 ; Nawrocki, Nolan 1 ; Haas, Matthias 1 ; Chun, Tanner 1 ; Wachs, Jason 1 ; Liolios, Trent 1 ; Elliott, Johnny 1
SB: Harrison, Kaikea 2 ; Haas, Matthias 1
HBP: Chun, Tanner 1




























