HATTIESBURG, Mississippi - Day two of the 2022 Conference USA Baseball Championship, presented by The First, is in the books, following four games from Pete Taylor Park on the campus of Southern Miss.

Six teams remain after the elimination Thursday of both Middle Tennessee and UAB. Those six are still playing for C-USA's automatic bid to the NCAA Division I Baseball Championship in a five-day, double-elimination tournament that will culminate Sunday with the championship game at 1 p.m. CT on CBS Sports Network.

Thursday's Day 2 action included four games - the final opening round game, a winner's bracket game and two elimination games. All contests leading up to the championship game on May 29 will be broadcast on ESPN+.

Louisiana Tech has advanced to Saturday's winner's bracket game at 9 a.m. CT, where they will take on the winner of (1) Southern Miss and (5) UTSA, who play Friday at 10 a.m. CT. (7) Charlotte staved off elimination and will do battle with (3) Old Dominion on Friday at 1:30 p.m. CT in an elimination. (4) Florida Atlantic, who split its Thursday games, awaits the loser of Southern Miss and UTSA on Friday night at 5 p.m. CT.

Coverage of the C-USA Championship, including live stats and video links are available on the Baseball Championship Central page.

Game 7: (4) Florida Atlantic 11, vs. (8) UAB 1 (7 inn.) | Box Score

Centerfielder Gabriel Rincones, Jr., and first baseman Nolan Schanuel both homered to highlight a four-run fourth inning, and starting pitcher Tyler Burnham fanned eight, as No. 4 seed Florida Atlantic posted an 11-1, run-rule shortened contest in to conclude day two of the 2022 Conference USA Baseball Championship on Thursday evening at Pete Taylor Park. 
 
The Owls plated three in the first, padding their advantage with four in the fourth and added a single tally in the fifth before ending the game with a three-spot in the bottom of the seventh. With the win, FAU improves to 35-22 and advances to take on the loser of Friday morning’s contest between host Southern Miss and UTSA tomorrow at 5 p.m. CT. UAB wraps its 2022 campaign at 31-25. 
 
Florida Atlantic tallied nine hits on the evening, including four for extra bases. Rincones, Jr., and left fielder Dylan Goldstein led the way for the Owls with two hits each and the former shared team-high RBI honors at three with designated hitter Mitchell Hartigan. 
 
Burnham sat down the Blazers in order to start the game, and the Owls gave him all the run support he would need in the bottom of the stanza, when Hartigan ripped a bases-loaded double to deep center. Following a pair of scoreless frames, Rincones, Jr., clubbed a three-run shot over the wall in straight-away centerfield and Schanuel followed with a solo homer to right-center. 
 
UAB got on the board in the fifth when centerfielder Peyton Puckett led off the inning with a triple and scored on a sacrifice fly off the bat of second baseman John Marc Mullins. Florida Atlantic got the run back in the bottom of the inning on a bases-loaded walk by Schanuel, and ended the game early when shortstop Armando Albert, Rincones, Jr. and Schanuel each came around to touch the paystation in the bottom of the seventh. 
 
Burnham (7-1) picked up the win after allowing just one hit on five errors and three walks in 5.0 solid innings on the mound. UAB starter Leo Harris was charged with the loss after giving up seven runs on four hits, while adding five walks and five strikeouts. First baseman Josh Sears was the lone Blazer to tally a multiple-hit performance, going 2-for-4 at the plate. 

Game 6: (2) LA Tech 7, (3) Old Dominion 2 | Box Score

Louisiana Tech starter Ryan Jennings carried a no-hitter into the seventh inning from the mound and shortstop Taylor Young went 3-for-5 with a trio of RBI at the plate as the second-seeded Bulldogs punched their ticket into the 2022 Conference Baseball Championship semifinals with a 7-2 win over No. 3 seed Old Dominion on Thursday afternoon at Pete Taylor Park. 
 
Jennings faced just one more than the minimum over the first six innings and retired the first batter of the seventh before giving up back-to-back singles to Monarchs first baseman Matt Coutney and catcher Brock Gagliardi. The six-foot right hander responded with a ground ball back to the mound and a strikeout to get out of the inning unscathed and finished the day with 10 strikeouts while walking just a pair. 
 
Following a scoreless first, centerfielder Logan McLeod plated the first run of the ballgame with a sacrifice fly to center and Young laced a two-run single to centerfield. Catcher Jorge Corona drove in a run in the third with a ground rule double that bounced over the fence in right.  
 
The Bulldogs padded their lead in the sixth when they recorded five consecutive singles, including run-scoring knocks by McLeod, Young and first baseman Philip Matulia. Old Dominion was able to avoid the shutout in the ninth as catcher Brock Gaglidardi roped a two-out single through the right side of the infield before right fielder Andy Garriola crushed a two-run homer during the ensuing at-bat to account for the final score. 
 
Gagliardi led the Monarch offense with a pair of hits. Starter Nick Pantos got the loss after giving up six runs on six hits and a walk while fanning three over 5.2 innings on the hill. 

Game 5: (7) Charlotte 22, (6) Middle Tennessee 0 (7 inn.) | Box Score

All nine 49ers starters tallied at least one hit and eight recorded at least one RBI as seventh-seeded Charlotte staved off elimination in a big way with a 22-0 drubbing of No. 6 seed Middle Tennessee in day two of the 2022 Conference USA Baseball Championship on Thursday afternoon at Pete Taylor Park. 
 
Charlotte (36-21) set the tone early on with eight runs in the top of the first and only failed to score in the fourth en route to the seven-inning, 10-run-rule, shortened outing. The victory was the most lopsided of its kind in C-USA Championship history, surpassing the previous mark of 21 when Rice defeated Houston on May 27, 2010, at UH’s Cougar Field. 
 
The 49ers out-hit the Blue Raiders, 18-4, getting three hit performances by second baseman Nate Furman, third baseman Jack Dragum, right fielder Cam Fisher and shortstop Austin Knight. Dragum and centerfielder Jake Cunnigham led Charlotte with four RBI each, and both Furman and left fielder Will Butcher added three RBI apiece. 
 
While the Charlotte bats were red hot, the pitching staff was equally up to the task as three 49er hurlers combined to allow just four hits and no walks to go with six strikeouts. Middle Tennessee never had multiple base runners in any inning and just one Blue Raider got as far as second base. Starter Collin Kramer (4-2) earned the victory after scattering four hits and punching out five in 5.0 innings. Cameron Hanson and Paxton Thompson tossed perfect single innings out of the bullpen. 
 
Five of Charlotte’s hits came in the opening frame, and the 49ers’ offense never slowed down with three runs in the second, two in the third, one in the fifth, six in the sixth and two more in the seventh. Dragum hammered a pair of homers in the win while Furman, Cunningham and Madole also went yard for the 49ers. Cunningham’s bomb was a grand slam during Charlotte’s six-run sixth to push the lead to 20-0. 
 
Middle Tennessee starter Peyton Wigginton was saddled with the loss after allowing seven runs on four hits and a pair of walks in 0.2 innings of work. None of the five Blue Raiders’ relievers was able to keep Charlotte off the scoreboard as James Sells allowed six runs (five earned), Jalen Wirtz gave up one, Brycen Thomas was tagged for five, Jack Julien surrendered one and Avery Gunn allowed a pair. 

Game 4: (5) UTSA 6, (4) Florida Atlantic 4 | Box Score

A trio of Roadrunners posted three-hit performances and Luke Malone came out of the bullpen to record all 27 outs as fifth-seeded UTSA defeated Florida Atlantic, 6-4, to wrap up the opening round of the 2022 Conference USA Baseball Championship on Thursday morning at Pete Taylor Park. 
 
While it was all smiles in the UTSA dugout at the end of the ballgame, it was anything but early on as starter Braylon Owens walked the only two batters he faced before being lifted in favor of Malone. Both Owls baserunners would come around to score, but Malone allowed just single runs in the fifth and sixth innings to keep the FAU offense on its heels all day. He would finish the day with four strikeouts while tossing 107 pitches (70 for strikes) to improve to 9-3. 
 
After falling behind 2-0, UTSA cut the deficit in half in the second when second baseman Leyton Berry scored following an FAU error and tied things up two innings later on a solo homer to right by right fielder Chase Keng. It was a back-and-forth affair over the next three frames as the Roadrunners plated a pair in the top of the sixth, while FAU got solo home runs off the bats of second baseman Shane Magrann and first baseman Nolan Schanuel in the bottom of the fifth and sixth innings, respectively.  
 
Following a scoreless seventh, Keng scored what proved to be the winning run after doubling and eventually coming around on a sacrifice bunt by reserve shortstop Matt King. Left fielder Ian Bailey accounted for the final tally of the day, scoring from second on a two-out single by third baseman Tapia. 
 
FAU made things interesting in the home half of the inning as shortstop Armando Albert singled to open the frame and right fielder Gabriel Rincones, Jr., followed with a walk to bring the go-ahead run to the plate. Malone, however, retired the next three Owls to wiggle off the hook and tossed a perfect ninth to close out the ballgame. 
 
Barry, Keng and Bailey spearheaded a 13-hit day for UTSA with three hits apiece. FAU reliever Max Martzolf was hit with the loss after giving up a pair of earned runs on three hits in 1.2 innings of work out of the bullpen.