JACKSONVILLE – Jacksonville State set a program record for runs scored in an Ohio Valley Conference contest with a 25-12 rout of Austin Peay on Sunday to record its second straight OVC sweep and extend its winning streak to seven games.

The Gamecocks, 13-5 overall and 6-0 in OVC play, established the new mark with 19 hits, including 11 extra base hits and scored a run in every inning except the eighth inning.  It marks the fifth time JSU has recorded 20-plus runs in a league contest since joining the league in 2004 and the most since a 23 run performance at Eastern Illinois in 2014.

After dropping the first two games of the weekend, the Governors started strong with their biggest inning of the weekend in the first inning.  APSU plated four runs on one hit off of Jax State starter Colton Campbell.  The lone hit was a base-clearing triple by Kyle Blackburn.  Blackburn paced the APSU line up with a 3-for-5 day at the plate and drove in four of the club's 12 runs.

JSU quickly responded in its first trip to the plate against APSU left hander Zach Neff.  Neff was able to get junior Peyton Williams to strike out for the first out, but then the Gamecocks would string together seven hits and score eight runs off of Neff  The eight spot was the most in a single inning by the Gamecocks this season.  JSU had 14 total runs in the first inning coming into the Sunday affair. JSU belted four doubles in the frame, including two in the inning by Clayton Daniel.  Senior Paschal Petrongolo and freshman Nicolas Gaddis added the other two doubles.  Petrongolo finished the day with a pair of hits, while Gaddis was 2-for-4 at the plate, including his first career home run to start the third inning.

Daniel, from Guntersville, Alabama, bumped his team-best batting average to .385 on the season after collecting four hits in six trips to the plate.  He drove in five runs and reached base five times.  Daniel finished the day with three doubles and added a triple in the sixth and scored on a throwing error by the APSU shortstop.  He matched a JSU single game record for doubles in a single game, joining former Gamecocks Ben Waldrip (2012), Todd Cunningham (2008), Clay Whittemore (2006) and Bret Pettus (2005).  He finished the weekend 7-for-13 with six RBI.

Campbell settled in for 2.1 innings before JSU went to the bullpen with Joe McGuire.  McGuire kept the Govs quiet on a breezy first day of Spring at Rudy Abbott Field.  The Oxford, Alabama native went 3.1 innings and allowed just one run on three hits.  The junior right hander struck out three and registered his first win of the season.  Colton Pate, Grant Chandler and Dalton Etheridge finished out the lop-sided win out of the pen.

JSU tacked on solo runs in the each inning from the second to the fifth and held a 12-5 lead before adding 13 total runs in the sixth and seventh to put the game out of reach.  Williams, who got the start in centerfield on Sunday, turned in his second home run of the weekend and third of the year for the run in the fifth.  Junior Josh Bobo swung a hot stick throughout the weekend, including a 3-for-4 day and a double to start the scoring in the sixth.  He matched Daniel with five RBI on the day. 

Senior Elliot McCummings also had a three-hit day, while sophomore Taylor Hawthorne added a pair of hits and an RBI.

The Gamecocks will spend Spring Break on the road with a visit to Birmingham, Alabama on Tuesday, March 22 at Samford before making their second trip to the state of Illinois for a road OVC series at Eastern Illinois, which will begin on Thursday afternoon in Charleston, Illinois.  First pitch for the in-state battle with Samford is set for 6 p.m.  All four games this week will be available on the Gamecock Sports Network.