JACKSONVIILE – The Jacksonville State baseball team picked up its second consecutive series win after blanking Big Ten foe Purdue for the second time during the three-game series with a 3-0 decision on Sunday on Rudy Abbott Field at Jim Case Stadium.

The Gamecocks (10-11) shutout the Boilermakers 4-0 on Friday behind the arm of Garrett Farmer and four extra base hits.  On Sunday, it was the bullpen and a three-run second inning for Jax State.  JSU will be idle during the midweek and returns to Ohio Valley Conference action next weekend with its first road test in the league at Murray State.  The series with the Racers will get started on Friday, March 22 at 3 p.m.  Purdue dropped to 4-14 on the season after the loss.

Junior Corley Woods continued to be solid in relief as he squashed Purdue's hopes of a run-producing sixth inning after loading the bases with no outs.  Woods induced a pop up on the infield, recorded one of his two strikeouts and ended the threat with an inning-ending ground ball.  Woods did not surrender a hit and worked around a leadoff walk in the seventh.  After getting the first out of the ninth, JSU went to closer Christian Edwards to finish off the game.  Edwards fanned both Boilermakers he faced to earn his second save of the series and fifth of the season.

For the series, the JSU pitchers posted 22 strikeouts and issued six walks and was touched for nine runs.  Purdue's nine-run fifth inning on Saturday was the only inning in the 27-inning series that it scored on the Gamecocks.  The Boilermakers were 0-7 with runners in scoring position.

The Gamecocks strung together four if their seven hits in the second inning.  Senior Nic Gaddis and Alex Strachan opened the frame with back-to-back singles before sophomore Isaac Alexander doubled down the left field line for the first RBI of the contest.  Junior Devin Brown laid down a perfect bunt to score Strachan for the second run.  Back-to-back walks by Purdue starter Ryan Beard added the third run as Tanner Anderson was issued a bases loaded-walk.

Sunday starter Dylan Hathcock maintained the three-run cushion with a quality 4.1 innings of work.  Hathcock scattered five hits and struck out one.  Sophomore Colin Casey finished the fourth inning with the final two outs and tallied the first out of the fifth inning.

Gaddis was the lone Gamecock to have multiple hits on Sunday, pushing his seasons total to nine multi-hit games.  The Trenton, Georgia native has reached base in 11 consecutive games.

After the OVC series at Murray State, the Gamecocks return home to wrap of the month of March with a four-game homestand with Alabama State during spring break week at JSU on Wednesday, March 27.  JSU's next conference home series will be the weekend of March 29-31.  The homestand concludes a month in which JSU will have played 15 of the 19 games on its home turf.

All three games with the Racers will be available on the Gamecock Sports Network.