AUBURN | A record crowd witnessed a strong pitching performance from Cade Fisher and No. 9 Auburn.

Fisher allowed just one ruin on three hits to lead Auburn to a 4-2 win over No. 3 LSU Saturday night in front of 7,231 at Plainsman Park.

"That’s a special group of hitters. That’s a special, special ball club," said AU coach Butch Thompson. "Keeping them to two runs, in the critical moments and the vulnerable moments, you’re going to have to make a pitch. Tonight, to our guys’ credit, I thought we did."

Auburn, which improves to 25-10 overall and 8-6 in the SEC, clinches the series against LSU and will go for the sweep Sunday.

Fisher (1-0) struck out six, walked one and hit three batters in 5.0 innings. He gave up a solo home run to Steven Milam in the second inning and worked out of a bases-loaded jam in the fourth, striking out Chris Stanfield.

"It was great, something I've been working for all year," said Fisher. "I'm glad I got to go and do what I did today. And it was just something I've just been working for, and I'm glad that it showed."

John Armstrong didn’t allow a run on two hits and a walk in 1.2 innings, but left with the bases loaded and two outs in the seventh.

Ryan Hetzler got AU out of the jam and allowed one run on three hits over the final 2.1 innings to earn his fourth save of the season.

"He’s got some character, some patterning, enough deception," said Thompson. "He can be different types of pitchers and throw you different types of sequences in moments. He doesn’t seem to get rattled. He’s done great, great work for us."

Auburn got on the board in the fourth as Eric Snow led off with a double and then came home on a double by Ike Irish. Cooper McMurray followed with another double to put AU up 2-1.

AU extended its lead to 4-1 on a two-out, two-run home run by Snow in the fifth. Four of AU’s seven hits were for extra bases.

"The double, I just ended up seeing a fastball that I could handle and got a good swing on it," said Snow. "Next at-bat I just, I'd seen a bunch of fastballs all series already, and I promised Gabe (Gross) I'd go up there and sit soft for once, and I was able to get a pitch over the plate and put a good swing on it."

Snow was 2 of 4 with two runs scored and two RBI, McMurray 2 of 4 with one RBI, Irish 1 of 4 with one RBI and Chris Rembert 2 of 4.

The series concludes Sunday afternoon at 2 p.m. CT on SECN+/ESPN+.