BATON ROUGE, La. -- Trailing 2-0 with the Tigers' offense struggling at the plate, junior left-hander Jared Poche' sat down 16 straight Rice Owls and allowed the LSU baseball team to mount a home run laden comeback and win the NCAA Regional, 5-2, on Tuesday in Alex Box Stadium, Skip Bertman Field.
LSU has won 17 of its past 20 games and Tuesday's victory was the Tigers' 21st come-from-behind win this season.
LSU (45-19), which won its 22nd NCAA Regional title in 29 all-time appearances, advanced to host Coastal Carolina (47-16) in a best-of-three NCAA Super Regional starting Saturday at 8 p.