JACKSONVILLE – Jacksonville State completed a sweep of Tennessee Tech in walk off fashion, 8-7, on Sunday afternoon on Rudy Abbott Field at Jim Case Stadium.

Trailing 7-6 entering their final at bat, senior Nic Gaddis crushed a 1-1 pitch from Tech's Daniel Holley 380 feet over the left field wall to tie the contest.  Jax State pinch hit with junior Taylor Craven to face Holley and delivered the game winner as he sent a 1-1 toss in the same vicinity that Gaddis' round tripper went.  Craven, from Wadley, Alabama took over the team lead in home runs with his home run that sailed 370 feet out of Rudy Abbott Field.  Gaddis matched the team lead with his sixth of the season prior to Craven's walk off home run.  The Trenton, Georgia native finished the day 3-for-5 at the plate and four RBI.  On the weekend, he finished 6-for-14 and drove in five runs.  In the four games during the spring break week, Gaddis turned in a 9-for-16 week at the dish with eight RBI, four doubles and a pair of home runs.  He had a home run on Wednesday against Alabama State.

It's first time JSU has posted back-to-back home runs this season and the first time since last season when Chase Robinson and Cole Frederick had back-to-back home runs on May 6, 2018 against Morehead State.

The Gamecocks have now claimed four wins in walk-off fashion and swept their nemesis from Cookeville, Tennessee for the first time since 2010.  JSU opened the Ohio Valley Conference series with a 5-3 win on Friday night and collected a series win with a 12-10 come-from-behind slugfest on Saturday evening.  JSU moved to .500 on the year at 14-14 and improved to 6-3 on conference play.  The Golden Eagles dropped to 11-15 overall and 2-10 in OVC contests.  Jax State will be idle during the midweek and will travel to Cape Girardeau, Missouri next weekend for a series with Southeast Missouri.

The Tech offense mirrored the start it had on Saturday, scoring early runs in the first and second inning to take a 4-0 lead.  TTU plated three runs in the third frame with a three-run home run by Jason Hinchman.

JSU answered in the bottom half of the inning with three runs on four hits, coupled with a pair of Tech fielding miscues.  Junior Alex Webb, who had five hits on the weekend, had an RBI single for the first run on the home side of the scoreboard.  Gaddis pushed a run across the board by putting the ball in play and reaching on a fielder's choice.  Robinson plated the third run of the inning with an infield single.

Tech's second of two straight three-run innings extended the lead to 7-3 after it posted four hits, including an RBI triple as the big hit in the inning.

The Jax State bullpen did its job the rest of the way and allowed the offense to climb back in to the contest.  The trio of redshirt junior Tyler Wilburn, sophomore Colin Casey and sophomore Christian Edwards combined to finish the final 7.1 innings without issuing another Golden Eagle run.  The three pitchers scattered eight hits and posted nine strikeouts, including four each by Wilburn and Edwards.  Edwards collected his second win of the season after throwing the final 1.2 innings.  Wilburn was the first man out of the pen and went 2.2 innings and settled in after Tech scored the three runs in the fourth.  Casey tossed a pair of innings before handing it over to Edwards late in the game.

JSU answered Tech's run-scoring inning with a two-run bottom of the fourth.  Redshirt freshman Nash Adams started a two-out rally with one of his two singles on the day.  Frederick, who also had a two-hit day, singled down the line in left field.  Webb drew a walk to load the bases before Gaddis laced a double down the line in left field for the two runs.

In the JSU seventh, it was able to get the game within a run as Gaddis opened the inning with a double.  Sophomore Isaac Alexander tallied a two-out single back up the middle, plating Gaddis.

The series with the Redhawks of SEMO will get underway on Friday, April 5 from Capaha Field with first pitch set for 6 p.m.  The game will be streamed on ESPN+ and aired on the Gamecock Sports Network.  The Redhawks are scheduled to wrap up their road series at Eastern Illinois with a doubleheader on Monday.  Inclement weather pushed the series to a Sunday start.