By RICHARD CROOME

Eagle Staff Writer

WACO -- Texas A&M hitters had everyone rustling through school record books Saturday.

With five homers in the first six innings, the Aggies rolled to an 11-1 victory over Baylor. Eighth-ranked A&M won its 11th straight Big 12 game, tied a record for most home runs by an opposing team at Baylor Ballpark and equaled the Aggies' most home runs in a game since 1999, the year before bats were toned down by the NCAA.

A&M (32-7, 14-3 Big 12) remained in first place in the conference standings, a half-game ahead of Nebraska.

The Aggies' third inning proved to be enough to put the Bears (23-16, 8-9) away. A&M sent 10 batters to the plate, two of which -- Kyle Colligan and Jose Duran -- homered. Colligan opened the inning with a solo homer to left. He also was the last batter of the inning when he doubled and Kevin Gonzalez was thrown out at home.

In between, Dane Carter walked, Duran homered to center, Anders doubled, Brian Ruggiano singled Anders home, Ben Feltner tripled in Ruggiano, and Gonzalez singled up the middle.

Ruggiano was the last hitter starter Shawn Tolleson (4-2) faced. The redshirt freshman, who had Tommy John surgery two years ago, was coming off a four-hit shutout at Kansas State last weekend.

"Tolleson has outstanding stuff, and we just took advantage of some balls that were up in the zone," A&M head coach Rob Childress said. "We kind of lost our swagger for two games offensively, and I felt like we got that back tonight and hopefully we can maintain that through the series tomorrow."

A&M was held without an extra-base hit Friday by the Bears' Kendal Volz. The Aggies also had just six total hits for the second straight game.

But in the second inning Saturday, A&M gave a hint of what was coming. Darby Brown's ninth homer of the season sailed over the right-field fence and gave A&M a 1-0 lead.

Brown's shot followed a deep fly out by Anders and came before Ben Feltner's double to left. Kevin Gonzalez then just missed making it 3-0 with a fly ball that left fielder Adam Hornung caught at the warning track.

The rout was soon on, with A&M scoring six runs in the third. Ruggiano made it 8-0 in the fifth with the longest homer of the night, a shot that hit the scoreboard about 20 feet above the left-center field fence. It was his fifth of the year.

Anders had another big blow in the sixth, a two-run homer that helped A&M take an 11-0 lead. Anders had four of the Aggies' season-tying 18 hits. He also tied Brown for the team lead in homers at nine.

"We mislocated a lot of pitches, and they did a great job of hammering the mistakes," Baylor coach Steve Smith said.

The five homers tied Oklahoma's record for a visiting team at Baylor Ballpark, set in 1999. It was also the most hit by the Aggies in any game since May 15, 1999, against OU. Ironically, in both of those games, the team with the five home runs lost -- OU 16-12 to the Bears and A&M 13-12 at Oklahoma.

While the Aggies were rocketing balls around and out of Baylor Ballpark, freshman right-hander Barret Loux held the Bears to two hits over five innings for his third victory in four decisions.

Loux got into trouble once, when the Bears loaded the bases with one out in the third inning. Loux induced Raynor Campbell to ground into an inning-ending double play.

"That was what kind of springboarded us into a building a little bit better lead," Childress said. "Had they got a hit there, then it's a 6-2 game with a the left-hander coming up, and they get the momentum back. That's something a month ago, six weeks ago, Barret wouldn't have overcome. That was what made me most proud of his outing tonight."

Loux finished with five strikeouts, all looking with a full count. He struck out the side in the fourth.

Junior transfer Hank Robertson pitched the final four innings for his first save as an Aggie, giving up the Adam Hornung homer in the seventh.

"We wanted to extend Hank Robertson a bit, get him up around 60-70 pitches and try to see what we had in him as a long reliever," Childress said. "He was very good tonight."

NOTES -- Stouffer singled in the fifth inning to extend his career-best hitting streak to 15 games. ... Despite walking just two and giving up two hits, Loux threw 86 pitches in five innings. He had seven full counts. ... Counting last year's victory, A&M won back-to-back games in Waco for the first time since 1996. Last season, the Aggies won the lone game at Baylor 12-7. Gonzalez's older sister, Diana, was married Saturday in Houston. Since Gonzalez couldn't attend the wedding, he recorded a video for her.

• Richard Croome's e-mail address is richard.croome@theeagle.com.