LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Jacksonville State closed its road weekend at Bellarmine with a doubleheader sweep on Sunday to run its winning streak to eight games.
 
JSU (19-9, 6-0 ASUN) started the day with a 6-0 shutout of the Knights, before returning for a 14-4 five-inning victory to cement the Gamecocks' second-straight series sweep in conference play.
 
After a 0-0 deadlock through two innings to begin the day, Jax State consistently added runs in game one, much like on Saturday, to add insurance behind sophomore Sarah Currie's dominating effort from the circle. Ashley Phillips doubled down the line in the third inning to score Sidney Wagnon and the offense continued from there with JSU scoring in each of the final five frames. Morgan Nowakowski and Makalyn Kyser drove in runs in the fourth. While Camryn McLemore came home on an error in the fifth to make it 4-0. An inning later, McLemore added a run on a sac-fly to center that nearly fell for a possible bases-clearing hit. The final run came off the bat of Hannah Brown, who registered an RBI in a pinch-hit situation for the second-straight day.
 
Brown would later close out the final inning of game two from the circle after JSU rotated through a series of pitchers in the run-rule contest. However, it was only one pitcher needed in the day's first game as Currie shined through seven innings of a two-hit shutout. The Lawrenceville, Ga., native, struck out six and faced just two over the minimum while running her season record to 5-2.
 
With Currie and Jaliyah Holmes, Saturday's starter, turning in complete game efforts, JSU handed the ball to Kat Carter to start the final game of the weekend. The Gamecocks hung a six-spot on the board in the top of the first, all with two outs, to jumpstart a hot afternoon at the plate. In the home half of the first, Bellarmine struck for its first big inning of the weekend tagging Carter for four runs on two key hits. JSU quickly got two of those runs right back on a home run from Lindsey Richardson and a RBI double by Hannah Buffington in the second.
 
Freshman Jordan Eslinger entered in relief pitching and notched five strikeouts in three innings of work to earn her first career win. Following JSU's second six-run offensive inning of the game in the fourth, Brown took over for Eslinger to record the final three outs.
 
In all, JSU outscored the Knights, 30-5, over the three-game set and scored at least once in 14 of the 19 innings played. The Gamecocks now sit as the only unbeated team in ASUN play through two conference weekends and will step back out of conference on Wednesday night hosting Georgia State at University Field. Wednesday's game marks JSU's annual Student-Athlete Day, where members of all sports will join to get for food and fun times.