Two pitches later, Carter smashed a three-run double into the right-center field gap, lifting the fifth-ranked Aggies to a 6-3 victory in a 5 hour, 20 minute marathon at Haymarket Park.

"That's as good a game as I've ever been a part of," A&M head coach Rob Childress said. "It was an incredibly pitched game, [Nebraska starter Johnny] Dorn and [A&M starter Brooks] Raley were just outstanding. I did everything I could to cost us that game, but these guys are tough and they don't quit. They overcame my mistakes tonight and I'm proud of them."

The A&M dugout erupted when Carter connected for his double, but the Aggies were in an even bigger frenzy when closer Travis Starling went back to the mound for the bottom of the 16th.

Starling, who allowed just four hits over eight shutout innings of relief, gave up a one-out single to Abeita but retired the next two batters to end the game and give the Aggies a 3 1/2 game lead in the Big 12 with five conference games left.

Starling, who set a new career high for innings pitched in a game, said didn't know how much more his body could take. But his mind wouldn't let him quit.

"My body was telling me I should have quit three innings ago, but I wanted to stay in there, I wanted to pitch," said Starling, who threw 105 pitches. "With the adrenaline going, knowing that with three more outs we would win the game, there's no way I wasn't going to go out there to pitch."

Starling's effort was just the icing on the cake for the Aggies after starter Brooks Raley and reliever Kyle Thebeau combined to throw eight innings of five-hit baseball.

Raley escaped a jam in the bottom of the fifth. With runners on second and third and nobody out, the freshman left-hander retired the next three hitters to get out of the inning unscathed.