ATHENS, Ga. -- For the second time in as many days, LSU used a big inning to take an early lead over Georgia, then pulled away from the Bulldogs with a late flurry as the Fighting Tigers took over first place in the Southeastern Conference with an 13-6 victory on Saturday evening at Foley Field.

LSU (15-7-1, 4-0-1), which has now won six consecutive league series since last April, finds itself in first place in the overall league standings for the first time since May 5, 2001, when a loss at Arkansas allowed Georgia to overtake the Tigers and eventually win the conference title.

Alabama, which had won its first four conference games, lost 6-1 at Florida, leaving LSU as the league's last undefeated team. The Tigers are off to their best start in league play since starting 6-0 in 1994.

LSU can complete the three-game sweep of Georgia on Sunday at 1 p.m. ET (Noon CT). The game will be telecast live across Louisiana on the Jumbo Sports Network (cable channel 10 in Baton Rouge) and can be seen on a tape-delay basis on Sunday night on Comcast Sports Southeast. The Tigers enter Sunday's contest having won five consecutive games over Georgia by a combined margin of 60-21.

Georgia (11-9, 0-5) took a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first on an RBI double by David Coffey over the head of LSU center fielder Bruce Sprowl, but the Tigers made sure the Bulldogs' advantage would be short-lived with a five-run uprising in the second.

Blake Gill tied the game when he tripled home Ivan Naccarata, who drew a leadoff walk. Clay Harris then immediately gave LSU the lead when his sharp single into left-center field easily scored Gill.

Georgia starting pitcher Will Startup (2-1) struck out Will Harris for the first out of the inning, but he soon fell behind 4-1 when he yielded a two-run home run to Jon Zeringue, who was making his first start since March 9 and was hitting .204 coming into the contest.

Startup struck out Matt Liuzza for the second out of the inning, but yielded a walk to Sprowl and a single to Ryan Patterson before being replaced by Matt Woods. Startup fell to 2-1 after giving up five runs (four earned) on four hits in 1 2/3 innings.

Woods hit Aaron Hill to load the bases before the first of three passed balls by Bulldog catcher Ned Yost allowed Sprowl to score the inning's final run.

The Bulldogs, who have lost nine consecutive SEC games dating back to last season, picked up two runs in the third on an errant throw by Hill to score Yost and a sacrifice fly by Coffey, and then closed the gap to 6-4 in the fourth when Ryan Pittmon scored on a ground ball to second by Jasha Balcom.

Georgia would get no closer, as LSU put the game out of reach with a seven-run sixth inning, the Tigers' second largest eruption of the season.

Hill extended his hitting streak to 11 games with an RBI single to score Sprowl, and after Naccarata hit into a fielder's choice on which Patterson was retired at the plate for the second out, the Tigers would score six two-out runs.

Following an RBI single by Gill that plated Hill for an 8-4 Tiger lead, Gill and Naccarata executed a double steal to move themselves to second and third, and Clay Harris came through with a two-run single up the middle to score Gill and Naccarata.

Will Harris, Clay Harris' younger brother, then launched a two-run home run, the first of his LSU career, and that was followed by back-to-back doubles from Zeringue and Liuzza to complete the onslaught and make it 13-4. Will Harris was making his first appearance in an SEC game and first start since March 5 against Southeastern Louisiana.

Gill, Zeringue, Clay Harris all went 3-for-5 and Will Harris was 2-for-5 as the fifth through eighth place hitters in the LSU lineup combined to go 11-for-20 with eight runs scored and 10 RBI.

In five SEC games, the Tigers are batting .380, collecting 73 hits and scoring 45 runs, helping LSU raise its season batting average by 22 points over the past five games to .309.

Naccarata, surprisingly, was the only LSU starter without a hit, ending his hit streak end at 19 consecutive games. No LSU player has had a hitting streak of 20 or more games since Cedrick Harris' 21-game streak in 2000.

Coffey, who hit his first home run of the season in the bottom of the seventh, went 3-for-3 and drove in four runs to pace the Bulldogs' 11-hit attack.

LSU starting pitcher Bo Pettit wasn't quite as sharp as he was in a complete game victory over Florida last Saturday, but he still managed to strike out a season high 10 and walk just one over eight innings to improve to 4-0 on the year. Pettit has won his last seven regular season starts and eight of his last nine overall dating back to his last loss last April 21 at South Carolina.

The victory also marked a personal milestone for LSU coach Smoke Laval, who recorded his 300th career coaching victory. Laval is 59-29-1 at LSU and 300-188-1 overall in his ninth season, seven of which were spent at Louisiana-Monroe

LSU (15-7-1, 4-0-1) 051 007 000-- 13 18 1

Georgia (11-9, 0-5) 102 100 001-- 6 11 0

Bo Pettit, Jason Determann (9) and Matt Liuzza, Shawn French (8); Will Startup, Matt Woods (2), Rip Warren (6) and Ned Yost.

WP--Pettit, 4-0.

LP--Startup, 2-1.

2B--LSU: Jon Zeringue 2 (5), Matt Liuzza (1); UGA: David Coffey (4), Ned Yost (3).

3B--LSU: Blake Gill (2).

HR--LSU: Zeringue (2), Will Harris (1); UGA: Coffey (1).

T--3:12.

A--1,976.