RUSTON, La. – After three games on Day 4, Old Dominion and Louisiana Tech went through the semifinal round and advanced to play in Sunday's championship game of the 2021 Air Force Reserve C-USA Baseball Championship at J.C. Love Field at Pat Patterson Park on the campus of Louisiana Tech.

The winner of the championship game at 1 p.m. CT Sunday will receive C-USA's automatic bid to the NCAA Division I Baseball Championship. The game can be seen on CBS Sports Network.

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

Game 4: (2) Louisiana Tech 6, (3) Southern Miss 5 (Box Score)

Philip Matulia’s two-run single with two out in the bottom of the ninth inning propelled No. 2 seed Louisiana Tech to a dramatic 6-5 victory over No. 3 seed Southern Miss to send the Bulldogs to the championship game of the 2021 Air Force Reserve Conference USA Championship at J.C. Love Field at Pat Patterson Park.
 
Louisiana Tech (40-17) will face No. 4 seed Old Dominion (41-14) in Sunday’s championship game at 1 p.m. CT on CBS Sports Network.
 
Going into the ninth inning, LA Tech held a 2-1 lead after a solo homer to right field by Manny Garcia in the bottom of the eighth off Southern Miss reliever Blake Wehunt.
 
Southern Miss scored four runs in the top of the ninth. Reece Ewing singled to lead off the inning, and after one out, Will McGillis reached on a fielding error. Slade Wilks pinch hit for Blake Johnson, and Wilks hit a three-run homer to right-center off Louisiana Tech starter Greg Martinez for a 4-2 lead. Four batters later, Brady Faust lifted a sacrifice fly to center to score Dustin Dickerson to extend the margin to 5-2.
 
In the bottom of the ninth for Louisiana Tech, Taylor Young led off with a single to right. Southern Miss moved Dickerson from shortstop to make his first career appearance on the mound. Hunter Wells struck out, and Parker Bates singled to right center to move Young to third. Steele Netterville’s sacrifice fly to center scored Young from third to make the score 5-3. Cole McConnell followed with a single to right that scored Bates all the way from first. Manny Garcia singled McConnell to second, and after a walk to Jorge Corona, Matulia hit a pitch into the gap in right that scored McConnell and Garcia with the tying and winning runs for the Bulldogs.
 
Garcia tied a Conference USA single-game tournament record with five hits as he had three singles, a double and a homer.

Casey Ouellette (1-0) was the winner in relief for LA Tech, working two-thirds of an inning. Martinez went 8.1 innings and scattered nine hits, walked two and struck out nine in a 119-pitch effort for the Bulldogs.
 
With two out in the second inning, Southern Miss opened the scoring as Danny Lynch hit a solo home run to right field off Martinez.
 
In the Louisiana Tech fourth, Bates doubled down the right field line to lead off the inning, and moved to third on a single by Garcia. Corona then drove Bates home with a single to left to tie the game at 1-1.
 
Southern Miss starter Ben Ethridge worked 6.1 innings, allowed nine hits and struck out six LA Tech batters.

Game 12: (2) Louisiana Tech 11, (3) Southern Miss 10 - 10 innings (Box Score)

No. 2 seed Louisiana Tech rallied from an 8-0 deficit in the fourth inning to beat No. 3 seed Southern Miss 11-10 in 10 innings to force a deciding game for the final spot in the championship game of the 2021 Air Force Reserve Conference USA Championship at J.C. Love Field at Pat Patterson Park.
 
The Louisiana Tech victory forced a deciding game later in the day with Southern Miss.
 
After Southern Miss went out in order in the top of the 10th, Louisiana Tech got a one-out walk by Hunter Wells. Parker Bates flew out to center for the second out, and then Steele Netterville drove a pitch to the gap in right center for a double that scored Wells from first ahead of the relay throw for the game-winning run.
 
Southern Miss (37-18) tied the game 10-10 in the top of the 9th when Danny Lynch hit a solo home run to center to lead off the inning.
 
The Bulldogs (39-17) grabbed a 10-9 lead in the bottom of the eighth inning. Wells reached on a fielding error by USM pitcher Tyler Stuart (2-2) with the bases loaded that scored Philip Matulia from third. Two batters later, Netterville lifted a sac fly to right that scored Taylor Young.
 
Kyle Crigger (3-2) picked up the victory for the Bulldogs in relief, as he pitched two innings and struck out two.
 
Southern Miss took a 2-0 lead in the top of the second. Reece Ewing, Danny Lynch and Will McGillis all singled to load the bases. After Ewing was cut down at the plate after a Blake Johnson fielder’s choice and a strikeout, Gabe Montenegro slapped a two-run single through the right side to score Lynch and McGillis off LA Tech starter Cade Gibson.
 
In the USM third, Christopher Sargent hit a solo homer that cleared the batter’s eye in center field for a 3-0 Golden Eagles lead.
 
The Southern Miss lead grew to 8-0 in the fourth as Reed Trimble and Charlie Fischer hit back-to-back RBI singles. Sargent followed with a three-run homer to left, his second of the game.
 
Louisiana Tech mounted a comeback with six runs in the bottom of the fifth. Alex Ray had a RBI single, Young lifted a sacrifice fly to center and Bates added an RBI single off USM starter Drew Boyd, who was relieved by Tanner Hall after Bates’ hit. Netterville promptly hit an RBI double down the left-field line, and Cole McConnell followed with a two-RBI single to center. The Golden Eagles got out of the inning when Hall coaxed Manny Garcia to bounce into a double play.
 
Southern Miss got a run back in the sixth when Montenegro doubled to open the inning and scored on a RBI single by Sargent.
 
The Bulldogs trimmed the margin to 9-8 in the seventh with a pair of runs as Young doubled and scored on a wild pitch, and Garcia singled home Bates with the bases loaded. On that play, the Southern Miss defense relayed home to nail Netterville at the plate attempting to score. Southern Miss reliever Garrett Ramsey then struck out Corona looking to strand a pair of runners.
 
Seven Bulldogs had at least one RBI, led by Netterville with three on a 2-3 game. Sargent was 3-4 with two homers, a walk and five RBI for the Golden Eagles.

Game 11: (4) Old Dominion 13, (5) Florida Atlantic 5 (Box Score)

Old Dominion’s Andy Garriola tied a C-USA tournament single-game record with three homers and drove in six runs to lead the No. 4 seed Monarchs to a 13-5 victory over No. 5 seed Florida Atlantic and send ODU to the title game of the 2021 Air Force Reserve Conference USA Championship at J.C. Love Field at Pat Patterson Park.
 
ODU (41-14) will play Louisiana Tech in Sunday’s championship game at 1 p.m. CT on CBS Sports Network.
 
Garriola tied the C-USA tournament record set by UAB’s Jeff Bell against Charlotte in 1996 and tied by Tulane’s Nathan Southard vs. Houston in 2005. Garriola came into the game tied for first in the nation in RBI, and his six against the Owls pushed his season total to 72.
 
The Monarchs’ seven homers broke the C-USA tourney record of six, done twice by Rice (2007 vs. Memphis and 2010 vs. Houston).
 
The Monarchs set a C-USA tourney single-game record by clubbing seven home runs in the contest.
 
Old Dominion took a 3-0 lead in the bottom of the second inning off FAU starter Braden Ostrander (1-3). With one out, Garriola hit a line drive solo home run over the left-field wall. After a Tommy Bell walk, Lincoln Ransom hit a two-run homer to left-center.
 
In the FAU fourth after a leadoff walk to Nolan Schaunel and a double down the right-field line by Steven Loden, the Owls got a sacrifice fly from Bobby Morgensen and a RBI groundout by Caleb Pendleton to cut the lead to 3-2.
 
The Monarchs extended the lead to 6-2 in the fifth when Garriola smacked his second home run, a three-run blast to deep center off FAU reliever Sam Drumheller that scored Carter Trice and Brock Gagliardi.
 
A two-run double down the left-field line by Kyle Battle in the sixth pushed the ODU advantage to 8-2.
 
FAU (32-25) used back-to-back two-out RBI singles from Loden and Morgensen in the seventh to trail 8-4.
 
Old Dominion hit back-to-back-to-back homers in the seventh in a four-run inning. Garriola’s third home run of the day was a two-run shot to left, and Matt Coutney chased FAU reliever Dante Visconti with a solo HR to left center. Bell greeted reliever Brycen Allen with a solo blast to deep center for the Monarchs’ third straight homer in as many at-bats.
 
Florida Atlantic’s final run came in the ninth by way of four consecutive walks by ODU that eventually forced home Schaunel.
 
Old Dominion starter Tommy Gertner worked 4.2 innings and allowed two hits and struck out four. The Monarchs’ Jason Hartline (5-0) was awarded the victory in relief as he pitched two innings and struck out three.