CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas –kasjfg 
 
Game One: Texas A&M-Corpus Christi 6, NSU 2
 
The patient Demons worked a pair of walks as each of the first three batters of the game saw 3-2 counts. A bloop single from Laney Roos loaded the bases with one out giving NSU a prime scoring chance in the inning.
 
Ashlyn Walker gave the Demons the early lead on a sacrifice fly to medium deep left but no two-out hit added any more to the tally.
 
The lead only lasted until the bottom of the inning as the Islanders drew a leadoff walk, and with the help of a pair of errors in the inning, brought in the tying run. NSU starter Maggie Darr was able to escape any more damage though with a pair of bases loaded ground outs and a strikeout to escape the jam.
 
Only one baserunner reached for either team over the next two inning before the next scoring threat came in the Demon half of the fourth inning. A Walker base hit to right and Cameron Curtis walk put a pair on for NSU with one out. A swinging strikeout and pop up to third however left a pair on and the game still even at one.
 
"Our goal was when we got opportunities to score we needed our best quality at bats in those situations," head coach Lacy Prejean said. "We had a good game plan those first couple innings and we scored but we let her off the hook a little and she got some momentum. It was a close game late and they ended up getting the key hits. And later on in the game we didn't have the same quality at bats as we did earlier."
 
Darr allowed just her second hit of the game, a leadoff single to left to start the bottom of the fifth, the first batter to reach to start an inning for the Islanders since the first. An infield single and a walk following a ground out to short loaded the bases with one out.
 
NSU was unable to escape the bases loaded jam this time on a two-out, gap-splitting bases clearing double to right center that put the Islanders ahead 4-1. They added another on a bloop single down the line in right taking a 5-1 lead into the sixth.
 
Down 6-1 after another two-out RBI in the sixth, the Demons got the first two batters on in the seventh with sharp singles. NSU appeared to have three straight hits to open the inning as the ball of Mia Liscano's bat fell behind short, but she was called out for contacting the ball out of the batter's box with two strikes.
 
A walk loaded the bases for Taylor Williams to drive in a run on an RBI groundout but giving the Islanders the second out in the process. A pop up to second ended the game and any potential rally the Demons had planned.
 
Game Two: NSU 7, A&M-Corpus Christi 4
 
The Demons pounced on the Islanders quickly and in a big way to start the second game.
 
Taylor Williams drew a walk to start the game and put the Demons ahead two batters later sliding in around the tag at the plate on Tristin Court's conference-leading 13^th double of the season. Ashlyn Walker executed a perfect bunt single to bring Court in from third to make it a 2-0 game after four batters.
 
Walker's bunt single was the second of five straight hits for the Demons with Cameron Curtis bringing in a run on an RBI knock to right center and Kennedy Reynolds shooting one through the right side for two more runs giving NSU a commanding 5-0 lead.
 
After two scoreless innings where the Demons sent just four batters to the plate in the second and third and went in order in the fourth, the Islanders put together their biggest, and only, rally of the game.
 
Four straight hits in the bottom of the inning, including a two-run double, cut into the lead. An error and a walk put two more on leading a second two-run double bringing the Islanders within a run at 5-4. Kenzie Seely got out of the inning with a pop up to second and a strikeout to end the inning maintaining the one-run advantage.
 
"I challenged them after the first game to come out and be on fire," Prejean said. "I was proud of them for that but we didn't keep that same intensity and quality at bats after they went to their third pitcher. She had several fly ball outs in a row and we didn't adjust to that quick enough. That's stuff we can control and something we have to be intentional about committing to."
 
The Islanders got the tying run to second in the bottom of the next inning after a base hit and a walk with two outs. The play of the game for the Demons came to end the inning when a sharp liner directly back to Maggie Darr in the circle was caught to end the inning, keeping the tying run from scoring on the play.
 
"That's a huge momentum type of play," Prejean said. "Maggie is an athlete and I didn't see where the pitch was but it was barreled it up pretty good. Sometimes you go into self-defense mode out there but she's got the athleticism to make that play and it was a big moment in the game."
 
The Demons used the momentum of the play and their first hit since the first inning, a Kennedy Reynolds double off the wall in right, to add two insurance runs in the top of the sixth inning. Mia Liscano beat out an infield single to put runners at the corners with two out for Williams to line a two-run triple into the right center gap giving NSU the 7-4 lead going to the seventh inning.
 
Darr earned her first save of the season finishing off her three inning relief appearance with a much softer line drive back to her for the final out giving the Demons a split of the first two games of the series.
 
NSU and Corpus play the rubber game of the series at 12 p.m. on Sunday afternoon on ESPN+.