BATON ROUGE, La. — No. 7 Arkansas (40-11, 17-9 SEC) suffered a 13-3 loss in seven innings against No. 3 LSU (40-11, 17-9) Saturday night at Alex Box Stadium, dropping its penultimate SEC weekend series of the season in the process.
The Razorbacks will look to salvage the series in the weekend finale, which is scheduled for 3 p.m. Sunday, May 11, on SEC Network.
Arkansas has not been swept in an SEC series since suffering a sweep on the road against Georgia in 2023.
LSU scored three in the first and never looked back, posting runs in each of the first five frames and blowing the game open with a six-run fifth to take a 12-0 lead.
The Tigers tagged Razorback starter Gage Wood for four runs on four hits and two walks, and continued to do damage against the Arkansas bullpen after Wood departed the ballgame.
In total, the Razorback pitching staff combined to issue a season-high nine walks and allow a season-high 12 earned runs, including a season-high four homers.
Steele Eaves tossed a scoreless frame with a strikeout, while Hunter Dietz made his season debut and tallied a pair of punchouts in his first appearance on the mound since April 9, 2024.
The Arkansas offense was silenced by LSU starter Anthony Eyanson, who struck out 11 batters, through the first six innings before breaking through against the Tiger bullpen in the top half of the seventh.
Justin Thomas Jr. and Charles Davalan each collected RBI singles, and Logan Maxwell added an RBI sacrifice fly to cut the Razorbacks’ deficit to 12-3.
Davalan, who finished 2-for-4 with an RBI, was one of two Hogs to record multiple hits Saturday night.
Ryder Helfrick also tallied a pair of base hits, leading off the three-run seventh with his eighth double of the year and finishing 2-for-3.
LSU, however, responded to Arkansas’ rally by scratching out a run in the bottom half of the seventh inning to extend its lead to 13-3 and initiate the 10-run rule.
The Tigers handed the Razorbacks their first run-rule loss of the 2025 campaign.
