The University of Cincinnati baseball team faces an elimination game Thursday in the Big East Conference championships after falling to Connecticut 9-6 on Wednesday in Clearwater, Fla.
The Bearcats, the tournament's No. 7 seed, will face Pittsburgh at 10 a.m.
No. 2-seeded Connecticut will play Rutgers at noon.
UC led 6-3 in the sixth inning, but UConn rallied.
The Bearcats scored twice in the fifth inning to break a tie at 3. Second baseman T.J. Jones led off with a solo home run to right field, and Kevin Johnson hit an RBI single to drive in Jimmy Jacquot from second base for a 5-3 UC lead.
UC added a run in the sixth but missed a chance to break open the game. UConn reliever Dan Feehan allowed just the one run as he pitched out of a bases-loaded, no-outs jam nobody-out jam.
The Huskies tied the game at 6 with three unearned runs in the bottom of the sixth inning, then took the lead for good in the bottom of the seventh. Center fielder George Springer went 3-for-3 and second baseman Pierre LePage scored three runs for UConn.
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