TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- The Texas Longhorns are one win away from the chance to defend their national championship at the College World Series.

J.P. Howell pitched six strong innings, and Eric Sultemeier drove in two runs and scored twice as Texas beat top-seeded Florida State 8-3 Sunday night in the opening game of their best-of-three Super Regional.

	Texas shortstop Omar Quintanilla drove in two runs for the 'Horns.

Howell (9-2) allowed two hits, one earned, on four hits and four walks. He also struck out five. Closer Huston Street allowed four hits and a run over the final three innings for his 13th save.

The Longhorns (47-18) broke a 2-2 tie with a three-run seventh inning, which Sultemeier started with a two-out, two-run single up the middle. Taylor Teagarden followed with an RBI double.

Texas, which tied a season-high with sixth stolen bases, added three more runs in the ninth.

Florida State starter Trent Peterson threw three and two-thirds hitless innings before Teagarden's fourth-inning single. Peterson allowed just two hits and two runs in five and two-thirds innings but walked a career-high seven.

Rhett James (2-4) gave up Sultemeier's game-winning hit.

The Seminoles (54-12-1) led 2-0 in the fourth after a bases-loaded walk and a throwing error and added another on Eddy Martinez-Esteve's single in the seventh.

Now the Seminoles need to win Monday and Tuesday to get to Omaha, Neb. And they might have to do it without one of their top players. Shortstop Stephen Drew strained his right hamstring when he slipped rounding second base and left the game. His status for Game 2 is uncertain.