JACKSONVILLE — Jacksonville State added another milestone to its historical season on Sunday.
 
The Gamecocks held off Belmont for a 2-1 win that swept the series and the 2016 Ohio Valley Conference season, capping a 26-0 conference record and just the second unbeaten OVC season in league history. Tennessee Tech went 17-0 in 1994, nine games fewer than JSU's unprecedented run.
 
The OVC's regular-season champions, the Gamecocks (37-14, 26-0 OVC) wrapped up an historic weekend that started by giving head coach Jana McGinnis her 800th win with a doubleheader sweep of the Bruins (19-35, 11-16 OVC) on Saturday. They called on one of their two seniors on Senior Day Sunday, and she responded.
 
Pitcher Casey Akenberger got the call to start in the circle just minutes after she and fellow senior Ella Denes were honored in a pregame ceremony. Denes, the Gamecocks' leadoff batter, scored the game's first run while Akanberger held off Belmont's bats.
 
She allowed an unearned run in her complete-game two-hitter, pushing her record to 8-2 on the year. More importantly, it kept the hottest team the OVC has seen in its history in the win column and polished off another part of this historic season.
 
JSU has now won 17 straight games overall and a league-record 30 in OVC play. In their last 29 games of the 2016 regular season, the Gamecocks won 28 times. They move on to the OVC Tournament at Choccolocco Park in nearby Oxford, where they will face eighth-seeded Murray State on Wednesday at 5:30 p.m.
 
It was back-to-back first-inning sacrifice flies by Anna Chisolm and Jamie McGuire to plate Denes and Jordan Bullock, respectively, which put Jacksonville State in the run column first against Belmont on Sunday. The two runs stood throughout the seven inning contest as Akenberger held Belmont at bay. She also struck out five of the 27 batters she faced.
 
Belmont's lone run came in the third inning, when Amy Zeronian led off the inning with a single then advanced to second on a throwing error. She was sacrificed to third by Baylee Cook, then scored when Hayley Baker flew out to right field. Baker had the only other Bruin hit when she singled to right center to lead off the sixth.
 
Chisolm recorded Jacksonville State's first hit when she doubled to left center with one out in the third. Caitlyn Sapp followed with a single in the fourth and Denes hit a single in the fifth to round out the Gamecocks' offensive production.
 
Shelby Willard (4-14) got the start for Belmont in the circle, but only worked the first inning before giving way to Taylor Moon, who went the next three, and Carolyn Snodgress, who worked the final two.