TROY, Ala. –Senior Clayton Daniel collected two hits and became the second player all-time at Jacksonville State to accumulate 300 career hits and the fourth player all-time in Ohio Valley Conference history, but it wasn't enough in an 8-2 loss at Troy on Tuesday night.

With the win, the Trojans claimed both games of the home-and-home two=game season series against the Gamecocks.  Jax State fell to Troy, 16-13, in early April at Choccolocco Park in Oxford.  The loss drops JSU to 23-18 overall. Troy improved to 31-14 on the season.  It's the first time that Troy has won both games in a season against Jax State since the 2013 campaign.

Daniel was the lone Gamecock to have multiple hits as they were limited to seven hits in the setback.  The Guntersville, Alabama infielder ranks fourth all-time in the league and ranks behind former Jax State standout Bert Smith, JSU (323), Richie Rodriguez, Eastern Kentucky (303) and Kenton Parmley, Eastern Illinois (302). Daniel had a single in the second and the 300th hit came in the ninth.

Troy plated four of the five runs in the first two innings in its first plate appearance.  The Trojans touched JSU starter Sean Rape for four hits with the big hit coming with a two-out, two RBI triple by Sadler Goodwin.  Troy opened the second frame with a solo home run by Manning Early.  Those two would set the tone as Troy pitching allowed JSU two runs in the top of third.

The Gamecocks loaded the bases three times in the first three innings, but could not come up with a key hit for a big run-producing inning.  Freshman Alex Strachan and junior Matthew Hammers lifted sacrifice fly balls for the two RBI. 

Troy expanded the lead with a pair of two-out RBI in the fourth and the seventh and manufactured another run in the eighth.  The runs in the fourth in seventh came after a two-out double by Joey Denison and Goodwin respectively.  A two-out walk scored the eighth and final run in the Trojans' half of the eighth.

JSU returns to OVC play this weekend as it travels Morehead, Kentucky for a key conference weekend against the Eagles of Morehead State.  The series will get started on Friday at 4 p.m. CST at Allen Field.  The series continues on Saturday at 1 p.m. and concludes on Sunday at 12 p.m. CST.