Arizona State walked into the top of the seventh inning trailing Texas A&M by a run. Three batters later, the Sun Devils were headed to the NCAA Bryan-College Station Regional championship game.

Kaylee Pond’s single brought home Nehanda Lewis with the tying run, Emily Schepp followed with a ground ball up the middle that scored Tanya Windle, and Arizona State stunned No. 17/16 Texas A&M 4-3 on Saturday in College Station, Texas. The comeback sent Arizona State into Sunday’s title game and left the Aggies needing to regroup after letting a late lead slip away.

The finish was built on patience and one last burst of contact. Brooklyn Ulrich opened the seventh with a double, Lewis came on to run for her and advanced to third on Tiare Ho-Ching’s sacrifice bunt. Pond then pushed a single to left field to even the score at 3-3, and Schepp’s ground ball turned into the go-ahead run. Arizona State never gave Texas A&M another chance after that.

The loss wasted a strong start from Micaela Wark, whose two-run home run in the bottom of the first gave Texas A&M a 2-0 lead. That inning also included a Kenzie Brown illegal pitch that erased an 0-2 count on Wark before the Aggie slugger sent the ball 218 feet. Arizona State answered in the top of the second when Katie Chester launched a two-run homer to center field, a 236-foot shot on a 1-1 pitch that tied the game 2-2.

Texas A&M pulled back in front in the fourth on Kelsey Mathis’s run-scoring groundout that plated Hailey Golden for a 3-2 lead. Brown, who struck out Kennedy Powell twice, settled enough to keep the Sun Devils in reach, and Arizona State made the Aggies pay in the final inning. Brown earned the win to move to 16-6, while Sidne Peters took the loss and fell to 15-6.

The result carries extra weight because it was the first illegal pitch Brown had been called for in 2,688 pitches across 32 pitching appearances this season, a small mistake in a game decided by one inning and one run. Arizona State now gets Sunday’s second chance at 2 p.m. CDT, 12 p.m. MST, against the winner of the consolation bracket. The Sun Devils need one win to take the regional; the team coming out of the consolation side needs two.

For Texas A&M, the collapse came in front of a home crowd and after it had done enough early to control the game. For Arizona State, the route forward is plain: one more win, and the regional is theirs.