GREENVILLE — South Florida got a game-ending double play in the bottom of the seventh inning for a 5-4 win and a split of an American Athletic Conference doubleheader at No. 5 East Carolina on Sunday.

The Pirates won the 9-inning first game, 8-5.

The teams played two games Sunday because of illness within the Bulls program that caused Saturday’s game to be rescheduled.

ECU had a winning streak stopped at 10 games. The Pirates are 37-9 overall and 16-5 in the AAC standings with a 3-game lead over second place Texas San Antonio(27-20, 13-8 AAC) in the league race.

“Jaden Winter came to the mound in the top of the seventh and got out of a bases-loaded jam with none out without allowing a run to keep the Bulls’ lead at 5-4 in Sunday’s second game.

The Pirates had runners at first and second in the bottom of the seventh with one out when a grounder to short ended a long day.

“We put pressure on them,” said ECU coach Cliff Godwin on the Pirate radio network. “We just weren’t able to come through. … We just went two weeks without our Saturday starter (Zach Root) and our All American closer (Wyatt Lunsford-Shenkman). We lose one game. That’s really pretty special.”

Ethan Norby stepped in to start the second game of the series and went four innings Sunday in the opening game of the doubleheader. He yielded six hits and three runs, all earned on a 3-run homer by Bobby Boser for a 3-1 USF lead in the second. Norby struck out five without a walk.

Danny Beal (5-2) went the last five innings and got the decision with help from home runs by Ryan McCrystal, Dixon Willians and Justin Wilcoxen.

Beal allowed three hits, two earned runs with one walk and four whiffs.

Bristol Carter went 3-for-4 with a double and a run as ECU had a 13-9 lead in hits. Jacob Jenkins-Cowart and Wilcoxen each had two hits. Jacob Starling, who hit a solo homer in the third, and McCrystal drove in two runs apiece.

Starling’s solo blast in the sixth inning of the second game trimmed USF’s lead to 5-4.

RBI singles by Joaquin Monque in the fifth and Drew Brutcher in the sixth provided the winning margin for Bulls (23-24, 9-12 AAC).

The Pirates host Duke (32-14) on Tuesday at 6 p.m. The Blue Devils were ranked No. 10 in last week’s D1 Baseball poll. .