BOCA RATON, Fla. (Interstat) — East Carolina’s Luke Payne pitched five innings of no-hit ball and the Pirates pounded out 15 hits to rout Florida Atlantic 13-2 on Saturday at FAU Baseball Stadium, completing a three-game sweep in the American Athletic Conference series.

Payne, who earned the win, allowed one earned run on no hits while striking out six over five innings. He walked two and threw 73 pitches. The left-hander improved to 6-3 on the season after a 4-inning shutout against Rice on May 10 and a one-inning relief appearance at Memphis on May 3.

Davin Whitaker led the Pirates’ offensive onslaught, going 4 for 4 with a home run, two RBIs and three runs scored. Michael Kalinich went 2 for 2 with a home run, three RBIs and two walks. Grady Lenahan was 4 for 5 with two RBIs and three runs. Colby Wallace added two hits and two RBIs, and Braden Burress contributed a triple and two RBIs.

East Carolina scored in each of the first four innings to build a 10-0 lead. The decisive inning was the third, when the Pirates sent 11 batters to the plate and scored five runs. Whitaker reached on an infield single that scored Wallace from second on a throwing error, then Kalinich doubled home Whitaker. After a pitching change, Riley Irby singled to drive in Kalinich, and Lenahan followed with a two-run double. A walk to Dixon Herring loaded the bases, and Burress drew a bases-loaded walk to force in the fifth run of the inning.

The Pirates added two more in the fourth on Kalinich’s two-run homer to deep center field, his third home run of the series. Whitaker led off the sixth with a solo shot to right, his second homer of the game. East Carolina tacked on two in the seventh on Burress’s triple and a run-scoring groundout by Wallace.

Florida Atlantic managed only four hits. The Owls scored their first run in the fifth inning on a groundout by Jake Small that scored Joshua Patten, who had singled and advanced on a wild pitch. They added an unearned run in the sixth when Brady Boylston stole second and third and came home on a throwing error by catcher Brett Barron.

Brett Antolick and Thomas Paxton each threw a scoreless inning of relief for East Carolina, combining for two strikeouts and no hits.

The Pirates improved to 33-21-1 overall and 18-8-1 in the American Athletic Conference. Florida Atlantic fell to 28-27-1 overall and 17-11 in league play.

East Carolina entered the series having lost three of its previous four conference series, including a two-game sweep by Memphis on May 2-3. The Pirates had won the first two games of this series by scores of 7-5 on Thursday and 6-1 on Friday. Florida Atlantic had dropped two of its last three series after being swept at Wichita State on May 8-10.

Interstat’s game simulator had projected a final score of Florida Atlantic 7, East Carolina 5, while Interstat’s ELO system gave the Pirates a 61.50 percent probability to win before the first pitch.