COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – Tennessee Tech scored three runs in the seventh to walk-off with a 7-6 win and the series against the Jacksonville State softball team on Sunday.
 
The Gamecocks (26-13, 9-5 Ohio Valley Conference) scored six runs from the 4th-6th innings to build a 6-4 lead over the Golden Eagles (24-20, 11-6 OVC), but a walk-off sac fly from Madison Taylor scored Christian Gibbs and capped the three-run inning. The TTU win came a day after the two teams split a doubleheader to start the series.
 
Junior Cadi Oliver went 2-for-3 with a home run and two RBI to lead a JSU offense that racked up 10 hits, but the JSU pitchers couldn't keep TTU off the board. The Golden Eagles had 12 hits in the rubber game of the series.
 
Tech got off to a hot start, scoring a run in the first and two in the third to build a 3-0 lead before JSU could get its offense going. That came in the fourth, when back-to-back homers from Oliver and senior Melanie Steer cut the JSU deficit to just a run.
 
JSU tied the game in the fifth on sophomore Jamie McGuire's RBI single to right that scored senior Sara Borders, her first of two runs scored in the game. TTU answered quickly with a leadoff homer from Olivia Bennett that made it a 4-3 game to start the home half of the fifth.
 
The Gamecocks loaded the bases in the sixth before tying the game again when Oliver was hit by a pitch. Sophomore Stephanie Lewis then delivered a two-run, pinch-hit single up the middle that gave JSU a 6-4 advantage.
 
Freshman pitcher Whitney Gillespie loaded the bases to start the bottom of the seventh inning and gave up a two-run single to Bayli Cruse that tied the game with no outs. Sophomore Logan Green came on in relief and got Taylor to fly out to left, but Gibbs scored from third to earn the win for TTU.
 
Gillespie (8-4) was charged with the loss for JSU after allowing four runs on six hits in 3.1 innings of relief work. Sophomore Taylor West started the game and surrendered three runs on six hits in 2.2 innings, while Green got one out.
 
Hannah Weaver (7-8) earned the win in relief after allowing two hits in 1.1 scoreless innings. Starter and ace Danielle Liberatore gave up two runs on two hits in three innings, while Erica Tuck surrendered four runs on six hits in 2.2 innings in the circle.
 
The Gamecocks return home on Wednesday to host Georgia Tech at 5 p.m. at University Field. Their game originally scheduled for Tuesday with Kennesaw State has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances for KSU.