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Baseball: FAU falls in semifinals of Conference USA Tournament to Rice

The Owls allowed a tournament high 13 runs, six of which came in the fourth inning.

FAU junior second basemen Stephen Kerr runs toward third base and eventually home on a single from junior CJ Chatham during the top of fourth inning versus the St. Louis Cardinals on March 2. Max Jackson | Staff Photographer

Florida Atlantic baseball’s hopes of a conference championship ended Saturday afternoon after it fell 13-2 to Rice University in Biloxi, Mississippi.

Rice (30-29) used a big fourth inning to put away the Owls (35-21-1), scoring six of its runs in that inning alone after already leading 4-0.