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CONWAY, S.C. – The Jacksonville State softball team's wait to return to the field finally ended on Saturday and the Gamecocks made the most out of their first chance to play in two weeks.

After an off week last weekend and rainouts on the first two days of this week's Chanticleer Challenge, the skies cleared and the 2014 season resumed on Saturday, when senior Tiffany Harbin and freshman Taylor West each tossed complete-game shutouts. Harbin blanked Appalachian State 5-0 in the early morning game before West's 3-0 win in her collegiate debut against Furman followed.

Harbin, the seasoned veteran from Hazel Green, fanned 10 ASU batters and scattered just three hits to grab her 62nd career win and third of the season. West got her first in the first time the Anniston native saw a collegiate circle. She'd missed the first month of the season working her way back from an injury suffered just before Opening Day, and made her opportunity count on Saturday.

Junior and reigning All-Ohio Valley Conference infielder Sara Borders led a JSU offense that hit .333 on the day. The Alexandria native was 4-for-4 in the opener and 5-for-7 with three RBI on the day, homering in each game. Sophomore Cadi Oliver was 3-for-5 and senior Hayden Crawford 3-for-6 over the twinbill.

In the opener, Harbin got plenty of offensive help, including the fourth four-hit game of Borders' career. Senior Kalee Tabor followed the first of two Borders singles with a two-run homer that would put JSU up for good. The team-high sixth homer of the year for the Lake Mary, Fla., native would be all the run support Harbin would need.

An Oliver sac fly in the fifth made it a 3-0 JSU lead before Borders' fifth homer of the year broke it open in the seventh. Oliver, Savannah Sloan and Crawford each recorded two hits in the win for the JSU offense, which totaled 13 hits in the game.

Harbin cruised, taking a no-hitter into the fourth, before a one-out single from Ashley Seering put the Mountaineers first hit on the board. Three singles would be all Harbin gave up, while she struck out 10 to improve to 3-3 on the year and notch her 62nd career win, two shy of the JSU record held by Jill Wilcoxson.

Sydney Laws (2-3) took the loss for ASU after giving up all five runs, four earned, on 13 hits in seven innings in the circle. She struck out four and walked one.

In the second game of the day, freshman Taylor West made her debut in the circle and got some support from fellow freshman Jamie McGuire. McGuire, a native of Glencoe, fouled off four two-strike pitches from Lauren Collier before depositing a 2-2 pitch over the wall in straightaway center field. Her third homer of the season gave West a 2-0 lead in the fourth.

West worked her way to the shutout, stranding at least one base runner in every inning but one and allowing a runner to reach scoring position in four of her seven shutout frames. The Anniston native scattered seven hits and struck out five to grab her first win in the circle. She threw just 94 pitches in the complete game, 62 of which were in the strike zone.

Borders put the exclamation point on the victory with a seventh-inning solo shot.

Collier (5-4) took the loss for Furman after surrendering three runs on seven hits in her seven solid innings. She walked three and struck out nine JSU batters.

The Gamecocks will finally play in the friendly confines of University Field on Tuesday, when they host Ball State in their home opener at 5 p.m. CT. JSU students and all fans ages 18 and under get in free.