LUBBOCK, Texas -- After a day in which runs were hard to come by in a pair of walk-off Texas Tech wins, the winds changed as balls jumped all over Rocky Johnson Field on Saturday.
 
Texas Tech racked up 19 hits to push past Northwestern State as the Lady Demons fell 12-4 in five innings with a stiff wind blowing to the outfield.
 
NSU (8-6) started the slugfest when sophomore Hayley Barbazon smacked her first career home run for a 1-0 lead in the first inning. The left-handed slapper lifted a ball over the center-field fence off starter Cheyene Powell.
 
Texas Tech (7-5) responded in kind when Kiana Workman (4-for-4, 4 RBIs) hit a three-run home run as the Red Raiders took its first lead, 3-1. Michaela Cochran tripled and Karli Hamilton walked before Workman's home run.
 
NSU starter Mikayla Brown worked out of further trouble when her second strikeout left the bases loaded. A single and two walks could have caused more damage in the opening frame.
 
Brown (4-2) couldn't skirt more danger in the second inning as Hamilton hit a three-run home run for a 6-2 Red Raiders edge. Brown surrendered singles to Heaven Burton (3-for-5) and Cochran to set up Texas Tech's second multi-run home run in as many innings.
 
Brown is credited with six runs on six hits and three walks in one complete inning.
 
Freshman reliever E.C. Delafield slowed the momentum with one run in two innings on four hits, but Texas Tech found its stroke again with five runs on nine hits against freshman Ryann Bizette in 1 1-3 innings.
 
NSU hung around with a run in the second inning to close Texas Tech's lead to 3-2. Freshman Elyssa Hernandez posted her second double of the series to score sophomore Adele Vincent.
 
But the Red Raiders pulled away with a Karli Hamilton three-run home run and didn't look back.
 
NSU's two other runs came on a Delafield RBI double in third inning and a Kaylee Isenburg RBI single in the fifth inning. Isenburg's RBI forced Texas Tech to bat in the fifth, but the Red Raiders scored the game-winning run to re-establish its eight-run lead.
 
Barbazon went 2-for-2 at the plate with a walk and three runs scored. She narrowly missed a second home run when she hit a double off the bottom of the outfield wall.
 
Texas Tech reliever Erin Edmoundson (4-1) picked up her third win of the weekend with one earned run in 1 2-3 innings.
 
NSU goes back on the road with a doubleheader at Prairie View A&M on Wednesday at 1 p.m.