HEMPSTEAD, Texas (Interstat) — Zacarias Salinas homered twice and drove in three runs to lead Prairie View to a 12-7 victory over Texas Southern on Sunday at Tankersley Field in a Southwestern Athletic Conference game played in the afternoon and evening.

Salinas, the designated hitter, went 2 for 4 with a solo homer in the sixth inning and a two-run blast in the seventh. He also struck out in his other two at-bats. The Panthers improved to 6-31 overall and 6-18 in the SWAC with the win, while the Tigers dropped to 18-15 and 12-5.

Prairie View broke open a 1-1 game with a nine-run sixth inning to take a 10-1 lead. Texas Southern answered with three runs in the top of the seventh to cut the deficit to 10-4, but Salinas’ second homer in the bottom half restored the Panthers’ eight-run cushion.

Michael Burroughs also went deep for Prairie View, finishing 1 for 3 with a three-run homer and four RBIs. Ryland Duson added a solo home run and an RBI single, going 2 for 4 with a walk and two runs scored. Deshon Middleton contributed two hits, including a double, and drove in a run. Ethan Walker doubled and drove in a run.

Jaxston Fipps earned the win in relief, tossing 2 2/3 scoreless innings, allowing one hit and striking out one. Kenneth Haynes started and went five innings, giving up four earned runs on six hits with five strikeouts. Kamar Dove took the loss after allowing four runs in two-thirds of an inning.

For Texas Southern, Derek Gipson homered and drove in three runs, going 2 for 3 with a walk. Evan Joubert added a solo homer and finished 2 for 5. Justin Mayes started for the Tigers and pitched four scoreless innings, surrendering no hits while striking out five, but did not factor in the decision.

The game turned in the sixth when Prairie View sent 12 batters to the plate. Trailing 1-0 entering the bottom of the inning, the Panthers scored nine times on six hits, including Burroughs’ three-run homer, Salinas’ solo shot, a run-scoring double by John Lawson, an RBI double by Middleton, an RBI double by Walker, a run-scoring groundout by Tyvon Moore and Duson’s solo homer.

Texas Southern had taken a 1-0 lead in the third inning on a groundout by Zachari Pace that scored Shaun Williams, who had singled and stolen second. The Tigers added a second run in the fourth when Joubert led off with a solo homer. In the sixth, Texas Southern made it 1-1 on a sacrifice bunt by Nate Lopez that drove in Gipson, who had singled and stolen second.

After Prairie View’s big inning, Gipson answered with a three-run homer in the top of the seventh off Kamar Dove, scoring Byron Robinson and Joubert, but Fipps shut the door from there. The Tigers managed only one hit over the final two innings.

Texas Southern had won the first two games of the series, 14-12 on Saturday and 13-0 on Friday. The Tigers held a 10-7 edge in hits in Sunday’s game but committed an error and had three sacrifice hits. Prairie View had 15 hits.

Salinas entered the game with a 1-for-6 performance in Saturday’s loss and had been 0-for-1 in the previous two games combined.

Interstat’s game simulator projected a final score of Texas Southern 7, Prairie View 2, and the Interstat ELO system gave Texas Southern a 63.30 percent probability to win.