JACKSONVILLE – Jacksonville State scored five runs in the fourth inning to highlight a 6-2 win over Queens on Saturday afternoon at Rudy Abbott Field at Jim Case Stadium.

The Gamecocks (9-10) have strung together five straight wins and secured an ASUN series win after routing the Royals 14-1 in seven innings on Friday night. Jax State will be looking for its first weekend series sweep of the season on Sunday as the two clubs wrap up the first weekend of league play with a 1 p.m. contest. Tickets are available online at JSUGamecockSports.com. Jax State students and fans 18 years old and younger are admitted free.

Jax State nursed an early 1-0 lead until the fourth inning as four two-out hits turned into five runs in the frame to give starter Tanner Jones room to work with. Freshman Will Fincher had the first of six hits in the inning with a one-out double down the left field line and would score on Carson Crowe's single to left field. After Royals' starter Jeffery Maidhof recorded a strikeout, he could not get out of the inning without further damage as freshman Michael Dallas extended the inning with a single to set the table for the top of the order. Freshman Bear Madliak laced an RBI single to left field, followed by Javon Hernandez' RBI base hit right back up the middle. Junior Mason Maners had the big hit in the inning with a double to right centerfield.

Hernandez and led the Jax State offensive attack with a three-hit contest. The Danbury, Connecticut second baseman will enter Sunday's series finale with seven hits already on the weekend. Dating back to Tuesday's win over third-ranked Ole Miss, Hernandez is 11-of-14 at the plate with a double and triple for the week.

Maners posted his seventh multi-hit game of the season with a pair of hits in Saturday's win. The  Vestavia Hills, Alabama native did not waste time extending his on-base streak to 31 games with a two-out single in the first and scored the first run of the game on a Queens wild pitch.

Fincher and Dallas added two hits each for the second consecutive game. In two games, the Gamecocks' bats have blistered Royals' pitchers with 37 hits in 15 innings on the weekend. Jax State accumulated 24 hits in the series opener on Friday.

An early lead made it much easier for Jones on the mound. The Thorsby, Alabama product matched his career-high for innings pitched with seven complete innings. Last weekend against South Alabama he established a new mark for innings with the seven innings and nine strikeouts. In the first ASUN appearance, he scattered five hits and tallied six strikeouts. Juniors Will Baker and Jake Peppers covered the final two innings out of the bullpen.

Sunday's weekend wrap up will be streamed on ESPN+ and carried on the Gamecock Sports Network.