Omaha, NE (My Sportsbook) - Blake Dean's bases-clearing double was the game- winner in a four-run ninth, as LSU rallied to clip Rice, 6-5, in Tuesday's College World Series action from Rosenblatt Stadium.

Facing Cole St. Clair, Derek Helenihi singled with one out, then Sean Ochinko was hit by a pitch. Michael Hollander's single made it 5-3, and Jared Mitchell reached on an error to load the bases setting the stage for Dean's double.

Helenihi had three hits, while Jared Gayhart and Micah Gibbs drove in the other runs for the Tigers, who erased a 5-0 deficit to record the win. Louis Coleman hurled a scoreless eighth and ninth to notch the win.

LSU next plays on Thursday, awaiting the winner of the late contest between North Carolina and Fresno State.

Rick Hague went 2-for-3 with two RBI for Rice, which is eliminated from the tournament. Aaron Luna added two hits and a run driven in, while Jared Gayhart and Diego Seastrunk knocked in one each. St. Clair took the loss, charged with seven hits and six runs -- four earned -- in 2 2/3 innings.

Rice was in control throughout, running up a comfortable lead on Hague's second-inning two-run single, Gayhart's RBI triple in the fifth, Aaron Luna's solo shot in the sixth and Seastrunk's RBI single in the following at-bat.

However, the Tigers came back with single runs each in the seventh and eighth. St. Clair balked home Nicholas Pontiff for a 5-1 game then a Gibbs run- scoring double reduced the gap to three.

Gibbs then attempted to score on a base hit by D.J. LeMahieu, but was tagged out at the plate by Rice catcher Adam Zornes.