TAMIU(15-22, 8-4 Heartland) starting pitcher Sarah Johnson (4-7) took the win, pitching seven innings with four strikeouts, a walk and four runs allowed. She allowed eight hits.

The Dustdevils scored in the first inning, but UTPB (6-22, 3-6 Heartland) answered in its next frame. The game stayed knotted until the Dustdevils exploded for six runs in the fifth inning and two more in the sixth. The Falcons tried to rebound with a run in the sixth and two in the seventh, but it wasn't enough.

Esme Gonzalez led off the bottom of the first for TAMIU, reaching via the bunt single before taking second on a Chelsea Capello sacrifice bunt. Cassandra De Leon was hit by a pitch, and both runners advanced to second and third when Brittany Mussett grounded out to first. Gonzalez scored the game's first run on a Falcons wild pitch.

Nothing came for the Dustdevils until the fifth inning, when a Brenda Parnin blast over the center field wall served as the exclamation point on a six-run inning. Gonzalez reached on a one-out double, scoring when Capello singled and took second on the throw home. De Leon then singled, also taking second and third on a miscue in the play at home when Capello scored. Mussett was walked and Mariena Gallardo launched a two-RBI double to score Mussett and De Leon. With Gallardo on second, Parnin hammered a home run to the deepest part of Dustdevil Field in straightaway center.

A De Leon double plated two more in the sixth after Anna Parnin reached on an error but was later retired in a fielder's choice that saw Gonzalez reach first. Capello was hit by a pitch to set up De Leon's pair of RBI.

That was all the Dustdevils needed to take two of three from UTPB.

The Dustdevils will next travel to Kingsville, Texas, to play a single non-conference game against Texas A&M-Kingsville on March 25 at 5 p.m. They will return home on April 8 for a doubleheader against TAMUK, starting at 1 p.m.