BATON ROUGE, La. -- Steven White didn't get much help from Baylor's hitters. He didn't need it.

White handcuffed LSU's big bats, scattering seven hits and striking out nine as Baylor beat the Tigers 4-1 in the first game of the NCAA Super Regional Friday night.

	Baylor's David Murphy got caught looking in the third inning, but the Bears won 4-1.

"I had great command of everything,'' White said. "I was able to locate the fast ball and get ahead and I was also able to get ahead with my breaking ball and change-up whenever I needed to. You have to be able to do that in this park and especially against a team like LSU because of the way they swing their bats.''

White, a fourth-round pick by the New York Yankees in this week's draft, had no trouble until the top of the ninth when he gave up a single and hit a batter, putting the two leadoff LSU batters on base. Ryan LaMotta came in and got three quick outs to cement the victory.

Baylor needs just one win in the next two games to advance to its first College World Series since 1978.

"I think that's really big,'' Baylor center fielder Chris Durbin said of getting the first victory. "All the way through the entire night I was talking to a few guys on the team and we were saying that these teams are very well matched.''

Baylor (45-21), which has not played at home since May 11, has won 17 of its last 21. The four losses came in the last 12 games -- against Big 12 Conference rivals Nebraska and Texas, both of whom played in the College World Series last year.

LSU (43-20-1) had won 12 of its last 15 games.

Both teams got great pitching as White and LSU's Nate Bumstead cooled off the top hitting teams in the Big 12 and Southeastern Conferences.

"Their guy went 140 pitches strong and he was still throwing pretty good late in the ballgame,'' said LSU coach Smoke Laval. "Nate threw a gem of a game. They bunched a couple of hits together and we had our chances.''

White and Bumstead kept the game scoreless through the first five innings.

White (9-4) was the winner and LaMotta got his third save. Bumstead (11-3) took the loss, despite giving up just nine hits and striking out six.

In the top of the sixth, Chris Durbin singled then stole second. He scored on Josh Ford's single to give Baylor a 1-0 lead.

LSU tied it in the bottom of the sixth with Ryan Patterson's RBI double. The run was the first for LSU in a super regional game since the fifth inning of the third game in 2001 against Tulane. The Tigers were been shut out over their previous 28 innings, including 6-0 and 3-0 losses to Rice last year.

The Bears got five of their 10 hits in the eighth, and scored three runs. Durbin and Ford both had RBI singles, and Mark Saccomanno had a RBI double to put Baylor up 4-1.

The Tigers put two men on in the bottom of the eight on a pair of fielding errors by Baylor. But with men on first and third and two out, White caught Jon Zeringue looking on the third strike.

"I think there's been a game or two this season where he's had better overall stuff in terms of every pitch,'' Baylor coach Steve Smith said of White. "But on this stage tonight I thought that was as good command of his fastball that he's had.''

LSU had won the last four against Baylor. The Tigers knocked the Bears out of the 1993 NCAA tournament with a 13-6 win in Baton Rouge, then won the national title. LSU swept Baylor in a three-game series in Baton Rouge in 1997.