MEMPHIS — East Carolina won its eighth straight game and completed an American Athletic Conference sweep at Memphis on Sunday with an 8-3 victory.

The No. 7 Pirates (35-8. 14-4 AAC) remained two games ahead of Texas San Antonio (25-18, 12-6 AAC) for first place in the league standings with the Roadrunners’ 4-2 win at Rice on Sunday.

Home runs by Dixon Williams, Carter Cunningham and Justin Wilcoxen helped ECU deal the Tigers (18-26, 6-12 AAC) their eighth straight defeat, although the Pirates had to rally from a 2–0 deficit through three innings.

Williams homered in the fourth and Cunningam’s 2-run blast in the fifth put ECU ahead to stay.

Cunningham hit his second homer of the game in the seventh, a solo shot, for a 4-2 lead.

Wilcoxen had a 2-run homer in the ninth to put the Pirates’ advantage at 8-2.

Jake Hunter (3-2) got the win in relief of freshman lefty Ethan Norby, who started and went two innings.

Hunter allowed one hit and no runs over two and two-thirds innings with one walk and four strikeouts. .

Chris Kahler went the last four innings for his first save. He yielded three hits and one run (earned) in four innings with no walks and three whiffs.

Austin Baskin had a solo homer for the hosts in the ninth.

Williams went 4-for-5 as ECU led 13-9 in hits. Wilcoxen was 3-for-4. Ryley Johnson and Cunningham each had two hits.

The Pirates return to action on Friday at 6 p.m. as they start an AAC series with South Florida (22-21, 8-10 AAC) in Greenville.