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Hogs can’t complete comeback in loss at LSU

Arkansas nearly made a five-run comeback Sunday afternoon, pulling within one after a four-run seventh, but could never get over the hump.

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BATON ROUGE, La. — Arkansas nearly made a five-run comeback Sunday afternoon, pulling within one after a four-run seventh, but could never get over the hump.

LSU’s bullpen shut down the Hogs to win, 7-5, and take the series at Alex Box Stadium.

Arkansas (33-15, 14-10 SEC) never could get a lock on LSU starting pitcher A.J. Labas, scoring just one run off the freshman hurler in six innings, but took advantage of the Tigers’ first man out of the bullpen in Nick Bush in the seventh.

Four runs came home on just two hits as two LSU errors also helped the cause to help the Hogs pull within one at 6-5.

Unfortunately, that was the closest the Razorbacks got as the Tigers (28-20, 12-12 SEC) added an insurance run in the bottom half of the seventh on an RBI single by Zach Watson for the final tally.

The Razorbacks drop their fourth series of the conference season, all on the road, but is still alone at the top of the SEC Western Division, one game ahead of Ole Miss and Auburn.

Freshman Heston Kjerstad had a nice bounce-back game after his four strikeouts the night before, going 2-for-4 with three RBIs and a home run. He launched his 10th home run of the year in the top of the fifth inning to tie the game at 1-1 and joined Casey Martin and Eric Cole as the only Razorbacks with 10 or more home runs this year.

The 5-6-7 hitters for Arkansas, including redshirt senior Carson Shaddy, who was coming off a hand injury, contributed to six of Arkansas’ seven hits in the game.

Along with Kjerstad, Shaddy and junior catcher Grant Koch had two hits each.

Shaddy, who had missed the previous seven games after taking a ball off the hand in the final game of the Mississippi State series, went 2-for-4 with a run scored in the game and one double, his eighth of the year.

On the mound, it was a good start for redshirt sophomore Isaiah Campbell, who matched Labas pitch-for-pitch in the first four innings. Campbell struck out only two, but limited his pitch count and held LSU to just four hits and one run.

He ran into trouble at the start of the fifth with four-consecutive one-out hits and had to be relieved with two runs home in the inning and two runners still in scoring position.

Campbell finished with 4.1 innings pitched and five earned runs on eight hits and 74 pitches. He was saddled with the loss to fall to 3-5.

The bullpen behind Campbell gave the Hogs a chance over the second half of the game. Sophomore Evan Lee faced just three batters and got his team out of the big LSU fifth inning, then Cody Scroggins followed with only one run allowed in the fifth, his only inning of work.

Freshman Bryce Bonnin made his first appearance since March 30, but only lasted a third of an inning as LSU hitters were able to get a single and a double, including the insurance run by Watson.

Junior Barrett Loseke was the final pitcher for the Hogs and threw 1.2 scoreless innings in his second appearance of the weekend.

Up Next

Arkansas returns home for its final regular-season series of the 2018 season at Baum Stadium when it plays host to Texas A&M for a three-game set starting on Friday.

First pitch is set for 6 p.m. and will be televised on the SEC Network.

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2024 High School Rankings

Following is the Arkansas Sports Media High School Football Poll including the Overall Top 10, the top five in Classes 7A, 6A, 5A, 4A, 3A and 2A, plus the top three in the 8-man division, as voted by a panel of sports media from around the state for the week ending August 24. Ranking is given with first-place votes received, records, total points and ranking from last week's poll:
OVERALLRecordPtsPrv
1.Bryant (18)8-02521
2.Conway (6)8-02302
3.Greenwood (2)8-02103
4.Little Rock Parkview7-11714
5.Bentonville5-31416
6.Benton7-11265
7.Fayetteville6-21008
8.Pulaski Academy6-2757
9.Rogers5-3459
10.Shiloh Christian6-24010
Others receiving votes: Marion 13, Valley View 9, Joe T Robinson 8, Mountain Home 4, Cabot 3, Elkins 3.
CLASS 7A
1.Bryant (20)8-01241
2.Conway (6)8-01052
3.Bentonville5-3753
4.Fayetteville6-2455
5.Pulaski Academy6-2354
Others receiving votes: Rogers 5.
CLASS 6A
1.Greenwood (26)8-01301
2.Benton7-11022
3.Shiloh Christian6-2713
4.Marion7-1524
5.Mountain Home7-131
Others receiving votes: Little Rock Catholic 4.
CLASS 5A
1.Little Rock Parkview (23)7-11271
2.Joe T Robinson7-1902
3.Valley View (3)8-0803
4.Hot Springs Lakeside7-1484
5.Farmington7-130
Others receiving votes: Camden Fairview 4, Maumelle 4, Morrilton 3, Greenbrier 2, Harding Academy 1.
CLASS 4A
1.Elkins (19)8-01161
2.Arkadelphia (5)6-2792
3.Little Rock Mills (1)8-0703
4.Warren6-2404
5.Malvern (1)8-0315
Others receiving votes: Dardanelle 22, Southside Batesville 11, Mena 8, Bauxite 7, DeWitt 4, Highland 2.
CLASS 3A
4.Bismarck (15)8-01054
5.Fordyce (4)8-0765
Prescott (3)7-1531t
1.Osceola (2)6-149
3.Mayflower (1)8-036
Others receiving votes: Booneville (1) 31, Rivercrest 19, Mansfield 14, Charleston 4, Rison 3.
CLASS 2A
1.Carlisle (21)8-01211
2.Conway Christian (4)8-01042
3.Des Arc7-1663
4.Bigelow (1)6-2455
5.Murfreesboro6-230
Others receiving votes: Marked Tree 10, Mineral Springs 6, Junction City 5, Cross County 1, Mount Ida 1, Poyen 1
8-MAN SANCTIONED
1.Strong-Huttig (25)5-0761
2.Midland (1)7-0502
3.Cedar Ridge7-1253
Others receiving votes: Rector 5.

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