Luke Ritter and Alec Bohm provided key hits and Keylan Killgore pitched brilliantly as seventh-seeded Wichita State stunned second-seeded South Florida 4-2 in the first round of the American Athletic Conference Tournament on Wednesday in Clearwater, Fla.
Killgore (4-1), the redshirt sophomore from Wichita Heights, went a collegiate high six innings, striking out seven and walking one. He allowed just four hits and one unearaned run.
Bohm broke a 1-1 tie in the seventh with a two-run double, and Ritter put the Shockers (35-19-1) up by two with a two-out single in the eighth.
The vicory in the the school’s first game in the postseason tourney puts the Shockers against the winner of the Cincinnati-Connecticut game, later Wednesday.