BATON ROUGE - No. 1 LSU baseball beat Xavier 18-4 in Alex Box Stadium on Tuesday night. The Tigers are on an 12-game win streak heading into SEC play.

The Tigers scored seven runs in the first inning, three in the second, and seven in the third en route to a 17-0 lead.

Jake Brown, Derek Curiel, and Jared Jones each had three hits in the game.

With the win, LSU is 17-1 this season. The Tigers host Missouri to open up SEC play on Friday.