It almost looked as if Landon Marceaux was going to give LSU a wasted gem of a starting performance. Aside from escaping a bases loaded jam in the 1st inning, Marceaux had an excellent 6.2 inning performance, striking out 5 and only giving up 2 runs and facing only 2 batters over the minimum through the 2nd to 6th innings. LSU had scored in the first as Josh Smith lead off the game with a double and was brought home from 3rd on a Zach Watson RBI ground out and carried that 1-0 lead to the 7th.
In the 7th, a few fielding errors cost LSU the lead as a Smith throw to 1st sailed wide to allow lead off batter Rankin Woley on.