BATON ROUGE, La. -- Thanks to Clay Harris and Ivan Naccarata LSU avoided becoming the first team to ever go 0-2 in three Super Regionals.

Back-to-back home runs by Clay Harris and Ivan Naccarata in the top of the eighth led LSU to a 6-5 victory over Baylor in the NCAA Super Regional on Saturday.

	LSU's Ivan Naccarata's homer forces a Sunday showdown with Baylor.

"I was leading off the inning, we were down by one and I knew a base runner was important,'' Harris said. "I just wanted to get a good pitch to drive and I got one up in the air.''

LSU, Mississippi State and Southern California have all gone 0-2 in Super Regionals. The win for the Tigers was their first in a Super Regional since a 4-3, 13-inning victory against Tulane in 2001. It evened the series at 1-1, setting up a Sunday showdown.

"We're playing not to lose instead of playing to win,'' said LSU coach Smoke Laval. "All that's saying is that we were trying too hard. It's just not working out for us. We were fortunate, maybe this win will loosen us up.''

A win by LSU (44-20-1) would send the Tigers to the College World Series for the first time since 2000. If Baylor wins on Sunday, the Bears (45-22) will be heading to the series for the first time since 1978.

Sunday's winner will face the winner of the Arizona St.-Cal St. Fullerton Super Regional in Omaha.

"Both teams had opportunities that they let get away,'' said Baylor coach Steve Smith. "I think the game was about as close as the score indicated. They managed to hit the ball to right field and we hit ours to center.''

After losing to Baylor 4-1 in the opening game, LSU got the bats working quickly. The Tigers picked up two hits and three runs in the first inning. Bruce Sprowl reached first on a throwing error and J.C. Holt singled. Sprowl scored on a wild pitch. Then Aaron Hill homered to right and the Tigers took a 3-0 lead.

The Tigers picked up another run in the second when another wild pitch advanced Ryan Patterson to third and he scored on Jon Zeringue's grounder to first.

Baylor scored in the second on Trey Webb's RBI single. The Bears picked up another run in the bottom of the third to cut LSU's lead to 4-2.

Mark Saccomano opened the fourth with a triple and scored on a wild pitch to pull Baylor within one at 4-3.

The Bears opened the seventh with two singles, which chased Bo Pettit from the mound and sent Jason Determan in. Determan gave up RBI singles to Chris Durbin and David Murphy that put Baylor up 5-4.

Harris drove Abe Woody's pitch off the scoreboard in right-center field to tie the game. Baylor coach Steve Smith then brought in Ryan LaMotta, who earned the save in Friday's game.

But Naccarata, the Tigers' leading hitter in the postseason, hit a towering blast well past the right-center field fence to allow LSU to regain the lead.

"It was a pitch that was up and in and during the whole game I was putting my foot down and hitting balls,'' Naccarata said. "Coach told me to work on that all game and it paid off in the end.''

Determan (7-0) got the victory and LaMotta (7-3) was the loser.