CHARLESTON, S.C. – Senior Sara Borders capped a red-hot weekend with four more hits on Sunday and led the Jacksonville State softball team to a 7-0 win over Wright State before falling to Charleston Southern 6-3.
 
The Gamecocks (12-7) put the finishing touches on a 3-1 weekend in the Charleston Southern Tournament, one that saw Borders put p some impressive numbers.
 
The Alexandria, Ala., native went 8-for-13 (.615) over the four games and drove in nine runs. She homered three times and doubled once, while also drawing two walks. Her on-base percentage was .688 for the weekend, while she boasted a 1.385 slugging percentage.
 
Jax State's offense woke up for the trip to Charleston, where it hit .373 over four games. The Gamecock pitchers held its opponents to a .196 average and allowed just four earned runs in 27 innings of work.
 
In the early game against Wright State, Borders and Ella Denes seemed to mimic each other for a while. They hit back-to-back solo homers in the top of the first to put JSU up 2-0 and then had back-to-back RBI singles in the third to make it a 4-0 lead.
 
They each had singles in the fifth, as well, with Borders' driving in JSU's fifth run of the game. Whitney Gillespie finished it off with a two-run single to right that made it a 7-0 Gamecock lead in the fifth.
 
Borders and Denes would each finish the game 3-for-3 with a homer, while Borders drove in three and Denes two. Denes scored two runs and Borders crossed the plate once. Gillespie also had three hits in four at bats, also driving in two runs.
 
Gillespie (5-2) held the Raiders in check in the circle, too. The freshman from Pelham, Ala., held WSU hitless through 3.2 innings before allowing a pair of two-out hits in the fourth. Those would be the only two hits Wright State would muster against Gillespie, who struck out three and walked two in six innings of work. Sophomore Jordan Sims tossed a scoreless seventh to finish the game off.
 
Montana Wear (1-9) suffered the loss after allowing two runs on two hits in two innings for WSU. Ashley Sharp gave up five runs on nine hits in five innings of relief work.
 
The Gamecocks jumped on Charleston Southern in the second game of the day, pushing a run across after a Jamie McGuire single led to an error that allowed Taylor Sloan to score an put JSU up 1-0. They tacked on another in the second, when Savannah Sloan stole second and forced another error that allowed her to make it a 2-0 JSU lead.
 
Christian's first homer of the game, a three-run shot, capped a four-run third that gave CSU a 4-2 advantage. The Gamecocks got one back on a passed ball in the fifth, but Christian's two-run home run in the bottom of the inning made it 6-3.
 
Sophomore Logan Green (5-2) suffered the loss for JSU despite holding the Buccaneers to five hits through six innings. Cheyenne Gandara (9-4) earned the win, holding JSU to just three unearned runs on 12 hits in seven innings.
 
The Gamecocks are scheduled to face Georgia Tech in Atlanta on Wednesday at 4 p.m. CT before opening Ohio Valley Conference play at Morehead State in Morehead, Ky., next weekend.