JACKSONVILLE – Redshirt junior Garrett Farmer tossed seven shutout innings and junior Andrew Naismith collected three hits to lead Jacksonville State to a 4-0 blanking of Big 10 foe Purdue on Friday night at Rudy Abbott Field at Jim Case Stadium.

The win pushed JSU's overall mark to 9-10 on the season, while the Boilermakers dropped to 3-13 on the season.  Jax State has strung together three straight wins after taking last Sunday's series finale with Eastern Illinois and Wednesday's dramatic 11th inning win over Troy.  Purdue has played 15 of its first 16 games of the season away from its West Lafayette, Indiana campus.  The two clubs will take for the field in the second game of the three-game series on Saturday at 1 p.m.  Tickets are available at JSUGamecockSports.com and all JSU students and fans 18 years old and younger are admitted free.

Farmer looked the part of a Friday night starter as he limited Purdue to four hits over the seven innings and did not allow a Boilermaker to reach second base until the sixth inning.  The Huntsville, Alabama righty fanned four in the outing and helped himself by picking off a base runner and threw out a runner attempting to take second base.  Farmer moved to 2-0 on the season.  The tandem of senior Austin Brewster, sophomore Jackson Tavel kept Purdue off the scoreboard in the next 1.2 innings.  Sophomore Christian Edwards came in to record the final out after a pair of Boilermakers reached base in the ninth inning.  Edwards posted his fourth save of the season.

While Farmer kept Purdue off-balanced for the first seven innings, the Gamecock offense gave him an early 1-0 lead and then a 2-0 cushion in the fifth.  Jax State manufactured a run in the first inning with senior Nic Gaddis' RBI single to left field, scoring Tre Kirlin, who led off with a walk.  Gaddis' RBI was his 100th of his career and became 29th player at JSU to have 100 or more RBI in a career.

In the fifth, JSU threatened to break the game open against Purdue starter Andrew Bohm, but Bohm limited the damage to the lone run.  Naismith had the first of three consecutive hits, starting with an RBI single that scored Chase Robinson.  JSU loaded the bases after the Naismith RBI, but Bohm tallied a pair of strikeouts and a fly ball to end JSU's chances for a big frame. Bohm was saddled with the loss and dropped to 0-2.

Naismith, from Auburn, Alabama, delivered a two-out, two-run home that traveled 370 feet over the fence in right center field.  It was Naismith's second home run of the season.  He capped off his Friday night with a double in the eighth.

Gaddis finished with multiple hits in the win and now has nine multi-hit games this season and extended his reached-base streak to 10 games.

Saturday's contest will be streamed on ESPN+ and aired on the Gamecock Sports Network.