Game 1 Boxscore
Game 2 Boxscore

JACKSON, Miss. – The Alabama State University baseball team suffered a pair of losses to Jackson State in the final Southwestern Athletic Conference series Saturday at Robert “Bob” Braddy Stadium. The Tigers swept the doubleheader with wins of 8-1 and 6-5.

ASU, who has lost four in a row and 15 of its last 16, slips to 11-25 overall and 6-19 in SWAC action while JSU extended its win streak to 15 games moving to 35-14 overall and an Eastern Division winning 19-5 league mark.

In game one, Cortney Nelson struck out 10 ASU batters in his three-hit complete game performance. The lone run for the Hornets came on a solo homerun by Kejuan Riley in the third inning.

JSU took an early lead with a run in the first and two more in the second. Bama State plated their only run in the third before the Tigers added scores in the fifth, sixth and eighth innings.

Game two featured a back-and-forth battle with both teams holding a lead in the contest. Drew Quinney allowed six runs on 11 hits while striking out seven for Alabama State. Jackson State starter Jeremy Gray allowed five runs in 4.2 innings of work before Terrance Washington came in to shut down the Hornets with 12 strikeouts in 4.1 innings of one-hit scoreless relief.

The Tigers struck first plating a pair of runs in the second inning for an early 2-0 advantage.

Bama State responded with three runs in the fourth for its first lead of the contest. Jourdan Mott and Quinney blasted back-to-back homers to open the frame followed by a run-scoring double by Adrian Snell.

JSU answered with four runs of their own in the bottom half of the fourth to regain the lead 6-3.

The Hornets refused to quit adding two more runs in the fifth to close the deficit to one, 6-5. Reginald Mitchell delivered the big hit in the frame driving in both runs with a two-out, bases-loaded single.

ASU got a pair of runners on board in the eighth and loaded the bases in the ninth but were unable to get the timely game-tying hit.

Alabama State will be the Eastern Division's No. 4 seed at the upcoming SWAC Championship on May 26-30 in Shreveport, La. The Hornets will face the yet to be determined Western Division's top seed on May 26 at 6 p.m.

Bama State may also make-up a game against Mississippi Valley State Wednesday at a yet to be determined time and location.