Lorenzo Hampton, Jr. drilled a three-run home run to lead FIU past Marshall, 9-5, Sunday afternoon at Infinity Insurance Park.

Hampton's home run snapped a 4-4 tie in the seventh inning -- an inning in which the Panthers scored five runs to rally past the Thundering Herd.

FIU (21-22, 10-11 Conference USA) won the series from Marshall (18-23, 6-15 C-USA) taking two of three games on the weekend.

With the Panthers down 4-2 entering the bottom of the seventh inning, Derek Cartaya and Eddie Silva drew consecutive walks. Austin Shenton and Adan Fernandez each delivered an RBI single scoring Cartaya and Silva, respectively, to tie the score.

Hampton followed Fernandez and worked a 3-2 count against Herd reliever Gordon Cardenas before launching his eighth home run of the season over the left field wall. The three-run blast gave FIU a 7-4 advantage.

A couple of FIU relievers were just as instrumental in the victory, working their personal Houdini acts to keep the Panthers in the game.

In top of the seventh with the Herd ahead 4-2, Reynaldo Pastrana and Tucker Linder reached on walks from Chandler Raiden.

Jose Machado (3-0) entered the game. After a sacrifice bunt moved Tucker and Pastrana to second and third, respectively, Machado induced Will Ray to pop out to Cartaya at shortstop and then struck out Geordon Blanton looking to quell the threat.

In the top of the eighth, Machado and reliever Cody Cortelli ran into trouble. The Herd narrowed the Panthers lead to 7-5 and had the bases loaded with one out. Greyson Fletcher relieved Cortelli and got Linder to bounce into a 5-3 double play to maintain the two-run lead.

Fletcher pitched the final 1 2/3 scoreless innings to record his first collegiate save.

Earlier in the game down 4-0, FIU scored its first two runs on another home run from Silva. The redshirt junior infielder belted a two-run dinger to cut the Herd lead in half. It was Silva's team-leading 12^th home run of the season and fourth of the week. Silva was 9 for 15 with four long balls and 12 RBI this week.

Hampton was 2 for 5 with four RBI Sunday, including a double that hit off the second base bag. Shenton was 2 for 4 with an RBI and Cartaya was 2 for 3.

On deck, FIU begins a five-game week Tuesday night. The Panthers host Stetson at 7 p.m. Tuesday from Infinity Insurance Park.

FIU travels to Fort Myers Wednesday to take on Florida Gulf Coast before returning home for a three-game series against Florida Atlantic next Friday, May 4.