JACKSONVILLE — The Jacksonville State softball team got a lift from freshman Anna Chisolm when it needed one the most on Thursday night.
 
After the Gamecocks (25-14) were forced into extra innings by the Bulldogs (7-27), Chisolm's eighth-inning walk-off blast over the wall in right centerfield delivered a 4-2 win. The no-doubter put the finishing touches on a come-from-behind win that also saw big performances from a pair of veterans.
 
Junior Taylor West tossed five innings of scoreless relief that saw just three AAMU runners reach base, and senior Ella Denes drove a two-run blast off the tin roof beyond the right field fence to erase a 2-0 deficit and tie the game in the fourth.
 
Chisolm and Denes each went 2-for-4 to highlight a 10-hit game by Jacksonville State, while Jordan Bullock also had two hits on the evening. Denes' big night raises her team-leading average to .404.
 
Stephanie Lewis, Jamie McGuire, Emily Church and Hayley Sims all recorded one hit at the plate for the Gamecocks.
 
Senior Casey Akenberger started in the circle for Jacksonville State and went three innings. She out three, gave up two hits, surrendered two runs and issued one walk before making way for West in the fourth.
 
Akenberger allowed back-to-back doubles to Kia Lang and Brandi Foreman to open the game and get Alabama A&M on the scoreboard. They would take a 2-0 lead but wouldn't get much going against the JSU pitching staff the rest of the night.
 
That was the last time AAMU had a base runner until Desiree Taylor was hit by a pitch with two outs in the top of the fifth. The Bulldogs threatened, again, in the top of the eight with back-to-back two-out singles, but Taylor West struck Foreman out to end the inning.
 
West (8-5) went five scoreless innings, struck out five, allowed two hits, and did not issue a walk to earn the win in relief.
 
JSU returns to conference play action Saturday with a doubleheader against Morehead State at 1 p.m. at University Field. JSU will put its 14-0 record and an 18-game win streak against league foes on the line in what will be a three-game series that will conclude with a single game at 1 p.m. on Sunday.