AUBURN, Ala. – Jacksonville State scored 11 unanswered runs and erased a 6-0 deficit to down nationally-ranked Auburn, 11-6, at Plainsman Park on Tuesday night.

The Gamecocks used two big innings en route to the win and a bullpen that stymied the Tiger offense in the last six innings.  Jax State improved to 17-15 overall and will return home this weekend in a key Ohio Valley Conference series with the Bruins of Belmont.  JSU has now won six-of-its-last-seven games after a sweep of Tennessee Tech, a series win at Southeast Missouri to go with its five-run win over its in-state rival.  Auburn, ranked as high as No. 19, dropped to 23-10 on the season and will visit Rudy Abbott Field at Jim Case Stadium in two weeks on Tuesday, April 23. 

The win is JSU's fifth over AU in the last nine meetings and the first in Auburn since 2015.  The Gamecocks now have three wins over Southeastern Conference opponents in the last three seasons.  JSU claimed the two-game series with Alabama during the 2017 season and the first meeting of 2018 before adding the Auburn win on Tuesday.

Jax State strung together six hits in its six-run fourth inning, highlighted by a two-run single by Andrew Naismith, who returned to his hometown for the second time in his career.  The former Auburn High School product finished with three RBI with a bases-loaded walk in the JSU seventh.  Junior Alex Webb continued his hot hitting with a two-run double that brought the Gamecocks within a run.  Webb has posted 11 hits in the last seven games, including six in the last two games after a four-hit Sunday at SEMO.  He reached base four times with a pair of walks.  Senior Nic Gaddis delivered the game-tying RBI with a single to left field.

From the fourth inning on, the freshman duo of Isaiah Magwood and Michael Gilliland kept the Tigers off the board.  Magwood and Gilliland scattered five hits, combined for 10 strikeouts.  Magwood pitched 3.2 innings and struck out seven of the 13 batters faced.  It was a new season-high for the Hazel Green, Alabama native.  The only hit allowed by Gilliland was a two-out single in the eighth.  The Boaz, Ala left hander posted a trio of strikeouts.  JSU pitching fanned 11 AU hitters on the night.

JSU broke up the 6-6 deadlock with a five-run seventh and took advantage of six walks issued by the AU pitching staff.  Sophomore Isaac Alexander had one of his two hits after Webb and Gaddis started the inning with back-to-back walks.  Jax State took the lead on sophomore Alex Strachan's bases-loaded walk.  The only other hit of the frame was a two-run double down the left field line by junior Chase Robinson.  The Pell City, Alabama product had a pair of hits in the contest.  Redshirt freshman Nash Adams, Naismith and freshman Carson Crowe all walled consecutively.  AU pitchers walked nine collectively on the night.

The series with the Bruins will get started on Friday, April 12 at 6 p.m.  JSU and Belmont will continue the set on Saturday at 6 p.m. and wrap up the three-game series on Sunday at 1 p.m.  Tickets for the series are available on JSUGamecockSports.com.  All JSU students and fans 18 years old and younger are admitted free.