OMAHA, Neb. -- Cal State Fullerton's experience silenced Nebraska's vocal and partisan fans at the College World Series.

Cal State Fullerton took a one-run lead in the fifth inning and made it stand up, beating Nebraska 5-4 in the CWS on Friday night.

The Titans won the opener of their 11th series and second in three years. Nebraska lost its series debut.

"The biggest thing for us was to make sure the crowd didn't get to us. Emotionally for us we were able to do that," said David Bacani, whose leadoff homer in the fifth inning supplied the eventual game winning run.

Aaron Rifkin hit a two-run homer for the Titans (47-16), who were outhit 8-7.

The Titans will play Stanford, a 13-11 winner over Tulane earlier Friday, on Sunday night. The Huskers and Green Wave will play Sunday afternoon in a game that will knock out one of the CWS newcomers.

Three Fullerton pitchers struck out 14 Cornhuskers. Jon Smith (11-2) lasted only until the sixth inning but got the win after allowing four runs on seven hits and striking out seven. Freshman closer Chad Cordero struck out four of the seven batters he faced to earn his 14th save.

"He doesn't get hit. When we see him running out there we just know it's lights out," Rifkin said of the Titans' closer with the 1.53 ERA.

Shane Komine (14-2) struck out nine as his streak of 14 straight wins ended.

John Cole was 3-for-4 with a pair of solo homers and Matt Hopper also connected for the Cornhuskers (50-15), who rallied to tie it twice after falling behind 3-0 but never took a lead. Nebraska had won nine straight coming into the series.

"I have mixed emotions right now. It felt pretty good to get a few hits but at the same time it feels pretty bad to lose by one run," Cole said. "I would have taken an 0-for and a win."

Bacani's leadoff homer in the fifth came off a changeup.

"He came in again with a change up this time and I was able to stay back and got a good part of the bat on it. It ended up being the winning run," Bacani said. "I didn't think it would turn out that way but it did."

Nebraska had just tied it in the top half of the inning on a homer by Cole to center, his fourth in the last five games.

The Titans silenced the crowd of 22,889 with a three-run first inning. Bacani led off with a double, moved to third on a sacrifice and scored on a single by Jason Corapaci. Rifkin followed with a shot deep into the bleachers in left field, leaving the Husker-friendly crowd in stunned silence.

"It's a little disappointing to lose by a run. It just felt like we could have won the game and didn't get it done," coach Dave Van Horn said.

They came to life in the second when Nebraska scored a run and had runners on second and third with nobody out, but the Huskers didn't take advantage of it. Jeff Blevins was thrown out at home on a fielder's choice and Smith picked off Josh Hesse when he strayed too far off second.

Dan Johnson, who led off the inning with a double, scored on a double to right by Hesse.

The Huskers tied the game at 3-all in the third on solo homers by Cole and Hopper. Fullerton got another run in the bottom of the third when Robert Guzman reached on an error and scored on Brett Kay's single to right. But Cole came back and tied it again in the fifth with his 11th homer of the season.

Cole, whose first homer hit just above the 408-feet mark in dead center, hit another shot about 15 feet to the left to tie it at 4. It was his first two-homer game of the season and third in his career.

The three runs Komine gave up in the first matched the total he gave up in the first inning all season.