March 14, 2010
Final Stats
Box Score 
EL PASO - It was a day of heroics for the Miners who were looking to sweep Marshall for the first time in program history. UTEP captured the 2-1 victory, opening with an inside the park home run and ending with a bases loaded RBI-single in the bottom of the seventh.
The Miners improve to 18-8 and move atop league standing with Houston at 3-0. It is the second time the Miners have swept their opening series (UAB, 2008).
It was a pitchers duel as Stacie Townsend and Katie Murphree allowed just one hit through five innings of play. Townsend, who hung on to post her second victory in as many days, moves to 15-5, and is just three wins away from tying her single-season record.
Kia Moore led off the bottom of the first inning with a hit to the right-center gap. As Moore rounded the bases looking for a triple, co-head coach James Rodriguez waved her in, and Moore followed, speeding around for the home run.
UTEP was held silent for the next five innings, until the bottom of the seventh.
Marshall had knotted the game in the sixth frame. The Herd's Caityln Jackson doubled. She advanced on a ground out to second and came home when Jazmine Valle blooped the ball into centerfield. The ball took a bounce out of the glove of UTEP's Ashley Ellis for the error, but Jackson was able to come home off the RBI.
Townsend retired the side in order in the seventh. Looking to avoid going into extra innings, Kayla Oranger stepped to the plate and hit the ball just left of the pitcher's circle. It took a hard bounce, allowing to reach base.
Oranger moved to second off a sacrifice hit by Ashley Collazo and advanced to third off a wild pitch by Murphree.
Avoiding another home run by Moore, the Herd intentionally walked her and did the same with Townsend in order to get to Camilla Carrera. With a 3-1 count and the bases loaded, Carrera proved why she was the league's Player of the Year a season ago, lacing a ground ball single through the middle for the walk-off single.
The Miners next head to Tennessee, taking a break to face Belmont in a doubleheader series with Belmont before taking on Memphis.
