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AUBURN – It may have taken the longest game in school history, but Jacksonville State wasn't ready for its season to end.
 
The Gamecocks (42-16) went 14 innings with Oregon State, but found a way to upend the Beavers (30-20-1) with a 5-4 thriller that lasted over four hours at Jane B. Moore Field. The win advanced JSU to face USC Upstate later on Saturday and gave the Gamecocks their first-ever win over a Pac 12 foe in its third try.
 
After 177 pitches from starter Whitney Gillespie, the JSU ace left the game in the 13th inning trailing 4-2. She delivered a game-tying double in the bottom of that inning and was first out of the dugout when freshman Anna Chisolm crossed the plate in the bottom of the 14th.
 
Three innings longer than JSU's previous longest game, the game saw Gillespie strike out a career-best 11, hold the Beavers to four runs on nine hits in 12 and 1/3 innings in the circle. Her 177 pitches came one day after holding No. 4 Auburn to three hits in the regional opener.
 
Junior Taylor West came on in relief and shined. The Anniston native retired all five batters she faced to earn the win in relief and improve to 16-5 on the season.
 
JSU recorded 14 hits against OSU, nine against starter Bev Miller and five against reliever Meehra Nelson. Nelson (16-10) suffered the loss despite allowing three unearned runs on five hits in seven innings. She struck out 12 Gamecocks after taking Miller's place in the circle.
 
Sophomore Jordan Bullock went 3-for-4 and walked twice to record her second three-hit game of the year, while Ella Denes, Stephanie Lewis, Chisolm and Gillespie added two hits apiece.
 
The Gamecocks threatened in each of the first three innings before finally denting the scoreboard in the third. A squeeze bunt in the second would have scored one, but the run was negated after the ball bounced into Emily Woodruff's bat in the box. She was ruled out of the box and called out to keep the game scoreless after two.
 
In that third inning, Bullock led off with a walk and moved to third on a Taylor Sloan grounder and a Jamie McGuire single. Lewis then found the hole between first and second to score Bullock and give the Gamecocks a 1-0 lead.
 
JSU got Gillespie another run in the fifth and it was another set up by Bullock. The Gamecock two-hole hitter started the frame with an infield single and was moved over by Sloan and McGuire before scoring an a Lewis grounder that rolled up the arm of first baseman Natalie Hampton.
 
Gillespie cruised until the seventh, when a leadoff single by Lovie Lopez and a walk to Natalie Hampton put multiple OSU runners on for the first time in the game. The Beavers bunted both runners into scoring position, the first in scoring position for them in the game, and an Alysha Everett single off the arm of Leila Chambers at first scored both and tied the game at 2-2.
 
JSU put runners at second and third with no outs in the bottom of the seventh, but couldn't push one across and avoid extra innings.
 
Gillespie and Nelson battled for the next five innings, putting a combined 10 zeroes on the board before the Beavers broke through and seemed to take control of the game in the 13th. OSU scored two to take a 4-2 lead, but the Gamecocks weren't ready to go away.
 
Bullock popped up to short to start the inning, but OSU's McKenna Ariola dropped it to put the leadoff runner on and seemingly give JSU life. Sloan followed by hitting a chopper to Ariola, who whiffed at her tag attempt at Bullock, putting two on with no outs for the Gamecocks.
 
Lewis grounded out to second but scored Bullock to make it a one-run game, and Gillespie roped Nelson's 0-2 pitch off the wall in left to tie the game.
 
West retired the Beavers in order in the 14th, setting the stage for the Gamecocks' dramatics.