We're blogging tonight's Auburn-Jacksonville State game. Follow along with us:

9TH INNING

Auburn 9, Jacksonville State 7: And there's your ballgame. Austin Hubbard closed things out for Auburn. Oddly, it was the same final score as when the teams met two weeks ago in the regular season. Here's the quickie story. More in a bit ...

8TH INNING

Auburn 9, Jacksonville State 7: The Gamecocks aren't going down without a fight. They scored twice to cut the Tigers' lead to one, doing so against closer Austin Hubbard. An error on a hard-hit ball to second baseman Justin Hargett didn't help. Casey McElroy comes right back for Auburn with a solo homer to left-center. That's homers from Justin Fradejas, Dan Gamache and McElroy tonight. Not exactly the Tigers' big guns.

7TH INNING

Auburn 8, Jacksonville State 5: Weird inning for Auburn, which got some breathing room. The Tigers got runners to second and third with two bunts (an error bumped them up a base). JSU reliever Alex Jones uncorked two wild pitches that were about 10-12 feet wide of the catcher, but the ball bounced off the backstop so quick, Auburn's baserunners couldn't move up. Justin Hargett eventually scored on a ground out by Brian Fletcher. Another run came in on Tony Caldwell's infield single deep in the hole at short.

6TH INNING

Auburn 6, Jacksonville State 5: Punch-counterpunch II. Blake Seguin lined a double down the right field line for the Gamecocks, off Hunter Morris' glove. Right fielder Justin Fradejas misplayed it, moving Seguin to third. He'd score on Todd Cunningham's chopper into left for a single. Auburn came right back with a solo home run by Dan Gamache. Remember, he got robbed of a grand slam earlier in the game.

5TH INNING

Auburn 5, Jacksonville State 4: Punch-counterpunch. Todd Cunningham, a potential first-round pick in next week's MLB draft, hit a two-run homer over the big wall in left to tie things up for Jacksonville State to tie things at 3. A two-out double by Andrew Edge ended Cory Luckie's night after 88 pitches. Reliever Slade Smith immediately gave up an RBI single to Kyle Bluestein to give JSU the lead back. Luckie's final line: 4 ER, 6 H, 3BB, 3 K. Auburn came right back in its half of the inning. After Justin Hargett worked an 0-2 count into a walk, Justin Fradejas blasted a two-run homer to left to make it 5-4 Auburn. It was his second homer this year and his first since the first game of the season against Southeast Missouri. JSU starter Austin Lucas is out of the game. He gave up five runs on five hits.

4TH INNING

Auburn 3, Jacksonville State 1: The Tigers finally got things going. Justin Fradejas started the fourth with a bunt single for Auburn's first hit (somewhere, Curt Schilling is angry and he doesn't even know why). Trent Mummey followed by smoking a double to the left-center field gap to tie things at 1. After Auburn loaded the bases, Dan Gamache launched a drive to center that Daniel Adamson robbed of a grand slam with a leaping catch. A run still scored to make it 2-1. Ryan Jenkins followed with an RBI single.

3RD INNING

Jacksonville State 1, Auburn 0: Two deep fly balls for the Gamecocks against Cory Luckie, but neither leave the park and are caught for outs. Austin Lucas, meanwhile, has set down nine straight. Auburn looks inpatient at the plate. The Tigers are hitting a lot of fly balls, but they're not necessarily driving them much.

2ND INNING

Jacksonville State 1, Auburn 0: The Gamecocks get nothing after a Hunter Morris error allows the leadoff batter to reach. The Tigers do even less in their half of the inning. Morris flied out before Kevin Patterson and Dan Gamache both struck out to end the inning. JSU starter Austin Lucas is perfect through two.

1ST INNING

Jacksonville State 1, Auburn 0: Not an ideal first inning for Tigers starter Cory Luckie, who gave up a run on a single to the hole, then loaded the bases. He got out of it with a strikeout of Jake Sharrock but threw 36 pitches in the inning. Not so efficient. (He did strike out the side, though). Tigers go down quickly 1-2-3. They saw only five pitches. Certainly sucked the life out of the stadium.

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We're starting a new thread for a running Auburn-Jacksonville State post. It's a full house here at Plainsman Park, with the grassy area down the left field line and beyond the center field wall full of people. The parking ramp next to Jordan-Hare Stadium is also as packed as I've seen it.

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