Razorbacks drop second game in series at LSU

BATON ROUGE, La. — Senior Loren Krzysko has two hits including a home run Saturday but Arkansas lost game two of its series at LSU, 10-2, in five innings.

Arkansas had four players with two hits including Krzysko and fellow senior Autumn Buczek who also tallied an RBI in the setback. The Razorbacks drop to 37-13 this year and 12-11 in SEC play.

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Sunday’s game three — the regular-season finale for both teams — is scheduled for a 3 p.m. start on ESPNU.

The game will also be streamed online on SEC Network+ though the WatchESPN app.

In the booth, Cara Capuano and Jennie Ritter will handle the play-by-play and color commentary duties, respectively.

The Razorbacks threatened in the top of the first with runners on first and second but LSU starter Maribeth Gorsuch got out of the inning with a strikeout.

Autumn Buczek legged out an infield single and moved up into scoring position on a base hit by Katie Warrick to start the would-be rally.

The Tigers responded by scoring an unearned run in the home half of the inning to take an early 1-0 advantage.

Arkansas put two on in each of the next two innings but came up empty, pushing its left-on-base total to six through the first three innings of the game.

After the Razorbacks left runners on second and third, LSU (39-13, 12-10 SEC) pushed its lead to 2-0 with a two-out single through the left side.

Leading off the fourth inning, Krzysko took the 0-1 offering from Gorsuch to straight-away center for her seventh home run of the year. The senior outfielder had three home runs through her first three seasons in Fayetteville and is up to 10 for her career.

Arkansas now has 52 home runs this season.

The fourth-inning rally continued with a long single by Ashley Diaz — Carley Haizlip in to pinch run — and walk to Tori Cooper.

A groundout to second moved both runners into scoring position and Buczek drove in the game-tying run with a sacrifice fly to center that allowed Haizlip to score from third.

However, the Tigers answered right back with four runs in the bottom of the fourth to re-take the lead.

In the fifth, the offense was retired in order for the first time this weekend and the home team plated four more runs to secure the run-rule victory.