Laird's Walk-Off Gives Baseball 8-7 Win

Per LSUSports.net: BATON ROUGE, La.— With the runners on first and second in the bottom of the ninth Friday night, rightfielder Mark Laird hit a two-out, walk-off single to score pinch runner Jared Foster and give sixth-ranked LSU a 8-7 victory over Tennessee at Alex Box Stadium, Skip Bertman Field.

LSU improved to 32-10-1 and 11-7-1 in the SEC with the victory. The Tigers have won 12 of their last 14 games and moved to just a half-game behind first-place Alabama in the SEC Western Division standings.

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Game 2 of the series will begin at 6:30pm on Saturday.