WICHITA, Kan. -- Brady Hamilton tossed a career-best 7.2 innings and matched his career high with eight strikeouts to lift Wichita State to a 7-5 win over South Florida on Saturday afternoon at Eck Stadium. The win snaps a nine-game losing streak for Wichita State and moves the Shockers back into a tie for eighth place in the American Athletic Conference standings.

Hamilton (2-5) allowed just four hits and three runs while issuing just one walk to earn his second consecutive quality start. The right-hander threw 76 strikes among his 109 total pitches.

The Shockers (13-29, 5-12) staked Hamilton to an early 2-0 lead with single runs in the first and second innings. For a second straight day, Josh Livingston opened the scoring with a two-out RBI double in the first ahead of Ryan Callahan's RBI single in the second. South Florida (23-17, 11-6) got the two runs back in the top of the third as Bradke Lohry doubled in one run and Carlos Jacome continued his strong series with an RBI single to knot the game at 2-2.

Camden Johnson delivered the biggest swing of the game in the bottom of the fifth, tucking a line drive just inside the left field foul pole for an opposite field, three-run homer that put Wichita State back in front, 5-2.

Callahan plated his second run of the day with an RBI grounder in the sixth, then Jordan Rogers tacked on an important insurance run with a solo homer in the bottom of the eighth.

The Bulls made things interesting in the top of the ninth, scoring two runs on a pair of RBI groundouts before Aaron Arnold slammed the door with a strikeout to secure his first save of the season.

Eight different Shockers had exactly one hit in the win.

Wichita State and South Florida will conclude the series on Sunday afternoon. First pitch of the rubber match is scheduled for 12:00 pm CT.