BATON ROUGE — Freshman left-hander Lane Mestepey earned his first career SEC win Saturday as the sixth-ranked LSU baseball team edged Florida, 4-3, in Alex Box Stadium on Saturday.
LSU, which won its third straight game, improved to 16-6-1 overall and 3-2 in the SEC. Florida dropped to 11-12 overall and 0-5 in conference play.
Mestepey, 3-0, worked 7.1 innings, limiting the Gators to three run on 10 hits with three walks and three strikeouts.
Reliever Weylin Guidry worked the final 1.2 innings to earn his second save. Guidry yielded no run on no hits with three walks and two strikeouts.
Guidry struck out Florida right fielder Peter Nystrom to end the game with runners at second and third base.
Florida starter Jimmy Ramshaw, 1-2, was charged with the loss, as he allowed four runs on nine hits with eight walks and two strikeouts.
LSU grabbed a 1-0 lead in the first inning when shortstop Ryan Theriot scored from third base on first baseman Bryan Moore? ?s double-play grounder.
The Gators scored two runs in the top of the second as Nystrom and catcher Brian Rose delivered RBI doubles.
LSU regained the lead with two runs in the bottom of the second as right fielder Ray Wright was hit by a Ramshaw pitch with the bases loaded, and catcher Matt Heath drew a bases-loaded walk.
The Tigers added a run in the third when Theriot drew a bases-loaded walk from Ramshaw.
Florida narrowed the lead to 4-3 in the fourth on an RBI single by Rose.
Neither team scored after the top of the fourth as both the Gators and Tigers left 12 runners on base in the contest.
The teams play the series finale at Noon Sunday in Alex Box Stadium.