OXFORD – It needed nine innings, but Jacksonville State claimed a 2-1 walk-off win over Georgia Tech at Choccolocco Park on Tuesday night.
 
While Faith Sims was claiming the upper hand in a pitchers duel with Emily Anderson, the Gamecocks (26-19) got a two-out infield single from Ryann Luna that scored Anna Chisolm and downed the Yellow Jackets (25-22) in extra innings.


 
Sims (16-7) held a Georgia Tech lineup that entered the game with 46 home runs on the season to just one run on five hits through nine innings. She struck out nine batters and defeated Anderson (17-14), who allowed two runs on seven hits in 8 and 2/3 innings.
 
That ninth inning that won the game for JSU didn't see a ball leave the infield, starting with an infield single to second by Chisolm, who moved over to third on ground outs from Taylor Beshears and Alexus Jimmerson. Luna's game winner was a grounder into the hole at short that Tech's Kelsey Chisolm couldn't get to first in time to retire Luna, allowing Chisolm to cross the plate with the winning run.
 
The win is JSU's second in a row of Georgia Tech after a 2-1 win in Atlanta early in 2017 and the Gamecocks' third in the last five meetings in the series.
 
Sims and Anderson exchanged scoreless innings for the first four innings before the Gamecocks broke through in the home half of the fifth. While Faith Sims had just retired seven-straight Tech batters, Hayley Sims was giving her a run to work with.
 
Alexus Jimmerson led off the inning with a single and pinch runner Anna Snider moved up to second on a Luna sac bunt. Sims' lone hit of the game was an RBI double that crossed up left fielder Cameron Stanford and plated Snider to give JSU a 1-0 lead.
 
The Yellow Jackets got the run back in their next at bat, when they loaded the bases on a pair of walks and a single from Malea Bell. Crosby Huckabay drove a two-out single to center that scored the tying run, but Stanford tried to score the go-ahead run and was gunned at the plate by Emily Woodruff's strike from center field.
 
The two aces continued to duel in the circle, holding each other's offenses off of the board until the Gamecocks' dramatic ninth inning.
 
Chisolm and Luna led the Gamecocks with two hits apiece, , while Hayley Sims and Luna had the team's two RBI. 
 
The Gamecocks remain home this weekend, when they will host a pair of Ohio Valley Conference doubleheaders against Morehead State and Eastern Kentucky at Choccolocco Park. JSU will host MSU at 1 p.m. on Saturday and will welcome EKU for a 1 p.m. twinbill on Sunday.