It took the No. 10 LSU softball team one game to hit nearly a third of its home run total from last season as the Tigers topped Ole Miss 9-1 Wednesday night.

LSU smacked four home runs in the win after only hitting 13 in 2012.

“Early on, [Ole Miss pitcher Shelby Jo] Fetner was difficult for us,” said LSU coach Beth Torina. “We had a few issues for our offense trying to make an adjustment, but I thought eventually we were able figure her out the second time around the lineup. We really swung the bats fantastic. It was probably one of our best offensive performances I’ve seen from them since I’ve been coach here.”

A two-dinger top of the sixth inning helped facilitate six runs for the Tigers.

Junior third baseman Tammy Wray produced the biggest score of the night with her three-run shot to left field that put the game firmly in LSU’s control.

“We kind of played off each other, we had confidence in each other,” Wray said. “I had my double in the at bat before [the home run] and I knew the adjustment I had to make to be able to hit it out if I needed to.”

Wray was also able to score a run with her feet when she stole home on a double steal along with senior catcher Lauren Houston to put the Tigers up 2 to 1 in the fifth inning.

Houston and a pair of freshmen — first baseman Sandra Simmons and pinch hitter Kellsi Kloss — were the other LSU players to knock one over the fence, producing five of the team’s eight RBIs.

The nine runs scored in Oxford on Wednesday bring the Tigers’ total to 29 on the season including six home runs.

But it wasn’t just the bats that were working for LSU — senior pitcher Rachele Fico led the Tigers defensively with a one-earned-run, 11-strikeout performance.

“We were just mixing in both sides of the plate and mixing in some off beats,” Fico said. “Houston was doing a good job behind the plate helping me get strikes, and then the offense did awesome tonight, so that made my life really easy.”

Fico said the offensive explosion relieved some of the stress on her and allowed her to take more risks and try more things from the mound.

The Tigers will continue their preconference schedule back home this weekend at the Purple and Gold challenge. This will be the second consecutive weekend LSU will play five games in three days.