All season long, John Pawlowski has talked about how every SEC series is bigger than the previous, and the next one will be bigger than that, and so forth and so on.

In its final regular-season home game, the Auburn baseball team took a hard-fought, 9-7, win over Jacksonville State on Tuesday night, powered by Tony Caldwell’s eighth-inning pinch-hit, RBI single.

After taking two of three from Tennessee this weekend at Plainsman Park, the Auburn baseball team is ready to wrap up its 2010 home schedule at 6:30 p.m. today against Jacksonville State.

Rightfielder Justin Fradejas led off No. 18 Auburn’s series finale against Tennessee with an infield single, and center fielder Trent Mummey squared to bunt him over on a 1-0 count.

The drought is over.

Auburn will have to wait another day to punch its ticket to Hoover.

When John Pawlowski tells a pitcher he’s been delegated to bullpen duty, he doesn’t consider it a demotion.

Former Auburn High and Auburn University standout Michael Nix is back in professional baseball, pitching with the Newark Bears in the Freedom Division of the Atlantic League.