After Louisiana-Lafayette silenced a partially-drenched sell-out crowd at Alex Box Stadium with a solo homer in the ninth inning, LSU’s Chris Sciambra answered with a walk-off shot of his own to give the Tigers a 4-3 victory over the Ragin’ Cajuns on Saturday night.

LSU (52-10) managed only five hits, but Sciambra’s third home run of the season along with Jake Fraley‘s two-run homer in the third inning were enough to hold off ULL (42-22).

The Tigers and Cajuns will meet in game 2 on Sunday at 6 p.m. CT on ESPN2. Pregame on the LSU Sports Radio Network will begin at 5:30.

In the top of the ninth, ULL’s Brenn Conrad hit his first collegiate home run in 57 career at bats off Alex Lange, who started for the Tigers and allowed three runs on 10 hits with 11 strikeouts and a walk. Lange left the game after one pitch in the frame with the game at 3-3.

With one out, Sciambra’s line drive to right-center field landed about six rows above Conrad’s home run in the right field bleechers.

The drama missing after LSU took a 3-0 lead to the top of the sixth inning turned up a notch when ULL touched Lange for single runs in the sixth inning and eighth.