Defending champion LSU hit a record-tying five homers, including two by Brandon Larson, and spoiled the homecoming of Stanford pitcher Kyle Peterson with a 10-5 victory Sunday at the College World Series.
Clint Earnhart's two-run homer in the fourth and back-to-back solo shots by Larson and Eddy Furniss in the fifth helped the second-seeded Tigers take a 7-0 lead.Larson's second homer of the game and third of the CWS came with nobody on in the seventh. Larson has 40 homers this season, one fewer than national leader Lance Berkman of Rice.
When Wes Davis led off the eighth with a homer, LSU tied the CWS record for most homers in a game shared by Miami, Arizona State and Florida State. The Tigers have hit an NCAA-record 184 homers this season, with at least one in every game.
The victory gave LSU (55-13) two days off, while third-seeded Stanford (44-19) heads to the elimination round Tuesday to meet the winner of the Rice-Auburn game. Tuesday's winner meets LSU on Wednesday night.
Peterson (11-3), an All-American who went to high school at Omaha Creighton Prep, gave up three runs in the first on a walk, a hit batter, RBI singles by Larson and Furniss and an RBI groundout by Trey McClure.
Peterson left the game after five innings. He gave up nine hits, seven earned runs and three homers.
LSU starter Patrick Coogan (14-3), the winning pitcher in last year's CWS championship game, allowed six hits and three earned runs in 7 1-3 innings.
Coogan allowed one hit through four innings before giving up two runs in the fifth on Luke Quaccia's RBI single and Tony Schrager's sacrifice fly. He loaded the bases on a pair of singles and an infield error in the eighth, then left the game after giving up an RBI single to Edmund Muth.
Reliever Brian Daugherty then gave up a two-run, two-out single to Jon Schaeffer.
LSU tied the school record and Southeastern Conference record for most wins in a season.