Cougars, ECU Close American Play

GREENVILLE, N.C. – The University of Houston caps the regular season when it visits No. 21 East Carolina for a three-game series beginning at 5:30 p.m. CT Thursday. Friday's middle game is at 5:30 p.m. CT and Saturday's finale is at noon CT. All three contests can be seen on ESPN+ and heard on The Varsity Network app.

Houston (34-19, 13-8 American) enters the final weekend of play as the No. 3-seed entering next week's TicketSmarter American Athletic Conference Baseball Championship. The Cougars are tied with UCF but the Knights hold the tiebreaker via head-to-head results.

ECU (35-18, 17-4 American) clinched its third consecutive American Athletic Conference title by completing a three-game sweep of South Florida on Sunday. The Pirates, who have won 11 consecutive games, lead the league in strikeout-to-walk ratio (2.88) and strikeouts per nine innings (9.8).

HOW TO FOLLOW
Game 1: Live Stats • Live Audio • ESPN+
Game 2: Live Stats • Live Audio • ESPN+
Game 3: Live Stats • Live Audio • ESPN+

PROBABLE PITCHING MATCHUPS
– THURSDAY: RHP Jaycob Deese (5-2, 4.52 ERA) vs. LHP C.J. Mayhue (4-1, 2.73 ERA)
– FRIDAY: TBD vs. TBD
– SATURDAY: TBD vs. TBD

NEED TO KNOW
Houston is in the midst of playing 11 of its final 16 games, including three of its final four conference series, away from Schroeder Park. The Cougars are 11-6 on the road including 6-3 in American play. Houston has won its last two road conference series, coming at Wichita State and USF.

Houston and ECU close the regular season with three games beginning Thursday night. The two teams have met 64 times, all coming since 2002, with the Cougars holding a 33-30-1 lead. This weekend marks Houston's first visit to ECU since sweeping the then-No. 7 Pirates April 27-29, 2018.

Houston ranks fourth nationally and first in The American with a .983 fielding percentage. Houston's single-season program record for fielding percentage is .977 set in 2000.

UP NEXT
Houston will make its eighth appearance in the American Baseball Championship, which begins Tuesday from BayCare Ballpark in Clearwater, Fla. Start times are dependent on seeding. Houston owns a pair of American Tournament titles (2014, '17) and has played in four of the league's seven tournament title games (2014, '15, '16, '17).

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