BRENTWOOD, Tenn. – For the third straight week of the baseball season, Jacksonville State has claimed one of the weekly Ohio Valley Conference honors as Nic Gaddis was named the league's top player after a hitting .667 for the week.

The junior catcher paced the Gamecocks to a 3-1 record in the four-game road trip against UAB last Tuesday and over the weekend in Miami, Florida for a three-game series with Florida International.  JSU won the series with FIU after registering a pair of extra-inning wins on Friday and Saturday.

Gaddis, from Trenton, Georgia, was instrumental for Jax State in the four games offensively and behind the plate.  He finished the week 10-for-15 and reached base 13 times in 18 plate appearances.  Gaddis strung together eight consecutive hits over the final two games of the FIU set, including a 6-for-6 day at the plate in JSU's 13-6, 10-inning win over the Panthers on Saturday.  He also delivered six RBI in the contest and had the eventual game-winning RBI in Friday's extra inning affair. Gaddis started Sunday with a double, plating his 10th RBI of the week and eighth of the weekend, including a pair of doubles versus FIU. He was walked three times and only struck out once in the four games. 

He was one hit shy of matching JSU's record for consecutive hits of nine, held by former Gamecock Nick Clecker, who combined for nine straight hits over three games in 2006.  His six hits in a single contest matched senior Clayton Daniel's six-hit performance in 2017 at Southeast Missouri and one hit shy of matching former JSU outfielder Gavin Golsan's record of seven hits in a game.  Golsan accomplished that feat at Belmont in 2016.

Gaddis went 2-for-3 in the midweek win at UAB with an RBI.  His weekly stat line included a stolen base and threw out a runner on the base paths and also did not have a passed ball on the week.

After four games on the road, JSU (8-3) returns to Choccolocco Park this week for four games in Oxford, Alabama, beginning with a Tuesday clash with regional foe Kennesaw State.  First pitch is set for 6 p.m.  The Gamecocks begin the 30-game OVC schedule this weekend, hosting Austin Peay.