OMAHA, Neb. — One by one, Texas batters walked back to the dugout befuddled.

They’d stare back at Mars graduate and Mississippi State pitcher Will Bednar in disbelief.

Bednar was dominant. The right-hander struck out seven in a row at one point and fanned 15 in six-plus innings as the Bulldogs beat the Longhorns, 2-1, in College World Series action Sunday night.

Bednar used a live fastball and a disappearing slider to confound Texas hitter after Texas hitter.

He gave up just one hit and one walk in his outing. He also hit a batter.

The 15 strikeouts is a College World Series record for a Mississippi State pitcher and also a career-high for Bednar (8-1), who is the younger brother of Pittsburgh Pirates relief pitcher David Bednar,

Bednar and Landon Sims set a CWS team record, combining for 21 strikeouts, and the Bulldogs (46-16) ran their season total to a Division I record-tying 766.

No. 2 national seed Texas (47-16) put only four balls in play against Bednar: three flyouts and Mitchell Daly’s base hit up the middle in the fourth.

The Longhorns’ offense came to life in the bottom of the ninth. Mike Antico led off with a homer, and Ivan Melendez and Cam Williams hit consecutive two-out singles to put runners on the corners before Douglas Hodo III grounded out to end the game.

The Longhorns have lost their CWS opener in each of their four appearances since 2009.

Bednar walked Zach Zubia to start the seventh inning and threw one more pitch, his 108th, before MSU coach Chris Lemonis called on Sims.

The hard-throwing reliever picked up where Bednar left off, striking out the first five batters he faced. He finished with six strikeouts.

MSU, the No. 7 national seed making its third straight CWS appearance, picked up both its runs in the fourth off Ty Madden (7-5). The first came home on a sacrifice fly and the other when Brad Cumbest sent a fly down the right-field line that landed just in fair territory. Hodo couldn’t make a play, and Luke Hancock scored from first on Cumbest’s triple.

The CWS individual strikeout record in a nine-inning game is 17 by Arizona State’s Ed Bane against Oklahoma in 1972.