JACKSONVILLE -  The Jacksonville State baseball team saw its 13-game Ohio Valley Conference winning streak snapped as Murray State edged JSU, 6-5 on Sunday to salvage the final game of the weekend series at Rudy Abbott Field.

The streak goes back to the final two games of the 2015 regular season and the loss halts the Gamecocks' perfect start in OVC play as stand 11-1 after the fourth weekend of the conference slate and a one-game lead over Southeast Missouri for the top spot in the league standings.  JSU dropped to 21-10 overall and will travel to Troy on Tuesday for a midweek contest before heading to Cookeville, Tennessee next weekend for an OVC series with Tennessee Tech.  The Racers improved to 16-19 on the season and 6-9 against OVC foes.  JSU claimed its ninth weekend series in the last 12 weekends dating back to April, 2015.  The Gamecocks have won all four OVC sets this season and six of the eight weekend in 2016.
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After pounding out a season-high 23 hits on Sunday and tallying 22 runs against the Racers on Saturday, the JSU offense struggled to get going for the first seven innings.  MSU's Ryan Dills kept JSU off balance throughout his 5.1 innings of work, including seven strike outs before leaving the game in the sixth.  Dills escapade trouble in third and fourth as JSU had runners in scoring position in the third and fourth, but could not produce a two-hit.  Dills picked up his second win of the season, while Brandon Hicks collected his first save of the season after retiring JSU in the ninth.

Jax State was trying to equalize the Racers in those two frames after falling behind in the fourth as MSU put together a two-run third.  MSU had RBI singles by Caleb Hicks and Jack Hranec off of JSU starter Garrett Farmer.

Farmer, who moved into the Sunday starting role last weekend at Southern Illinois, had a solid outing in his first OVC start.  Farmer, from Huntsville, Alabama, went six innings and struck out eight Racers on the day, which is the most by any Gamecock this season.  The previous was Jack Pierce's seven strikeout performance at SIU Edwardsville. 

MSU pushed the lead out to 6-0 with a run seventh and a three-run eighth and looked like it would shut the JSU offense down, but the Gamecock bats came alive in the eighth.

MSU's Cody Maerz ran into trouble in the eighth and loaded the bases that started JSU's comeback bid.  The Gamecocks' first run was a bases-loaded walk by A.J. Reynolds, who joined Clayton Daniel as the two Gamecocks with multiple hits in the game.  After Tyler Gamble scored on a wild pitch, junior Josh Bobo recorded his ninth and 10^th RBI of the weekend with a two-out single to cut the lead down to 6-4 heading to the ninth.

In the ninth, Daniel led off the inning with his second hit of the day and moved to second on a wild pitch.  He was pushed to third on Gamble's fly ball out.  Taylor Hawthorne drove a ball to shallow centerfield, but was thrown out at second to stretch a single to a double to end the game.

JSU and Troy will renew the in-state rivalry on Tuesday in Troy.  Frist pitch is set for 6 p.m.  The game will be available on the Gamecock Sports Network.