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ATHENS, Ga. – Powered by Ryder Helfrick’s two-homer game and Wehiwa Aloy’s two-out heroics, No. 1 Arkansas (32-5, 12-3 SEC) staged a dramatic ninth-inning comeback to force extras.
It wasn’t enough to escape Athens with its first series win since 2015, suffering a 7-6 loss in 12 innings against No. 7 Georgia (31-7, 10-5 SEC) Sunday afternoon at Foley Field.
Friday’s loss, which snapped the Razorbacks’ SEC series winning streak at four, handed Arkansas its first weekend series loss of the season.
The Hogs moved to 12-3 through 15 games of league play but matched their best 15-game SEC start for the fourth time in program history, having also accomplished the feat during the 1999, 2010 and 2024 seasons.
Arkansas trailed 5-3 in the top of the ninth inning before Helfrick’s leadoff shot, his second home run of the game, cut the deficit to one.
Georgia retired the next two batters to bring Aloy to the plate, and the Razorback shortstop delivered by cranking the game-tying solo blast to center and evening the ballgame at five apiece in dramatic fashion.
Charles Davalan’s RBI fielder’s choice in the 11th gave the Hogs their only lead of the afternoon, but the Bulldogs would not go away.
Down to their last out with a runner on first in the bottom half of the frame, an RBI double tied the game at six and ended the day for Razorback reliever Aiden Jimenez, who spun 2.2 innings of one-run ball with two strikeouts.
True freshman Cole Gibler took over on the mound with two outs and the winning run on second base, but he induced an inning-ending groundout to second to send the game to the 12th tied at 6-6.
After Arkansas went down in order in the top half of the frame, Georgia clinched the series on a walk-off solo homer with two outs in the bottom of the 12th.
Helfrick (2-for-4, 2 HR, 2 RBI) and Aloy (2-for-6, HR, RBI) each finished with multi-hit games to lead Razorbacks offensively in Sunday’s series finale in Athens.
Landon Beidelschies started on the mound and worked five innings of four-run ball with six strikeouts before turning the game over to the bullpen, which featured strong appearances from Carson Wiggins (2.0 IP, 1 R, 4 SO) and Dylan Carter (1.0 IP, 3 SO) in addition to Jimenez and Gibler’s work in relief.
Up next, Arkansas returns inside the friendly confines of Baum-Walker Stadium for a six-game homestand beginning with a midweek matchup against UAPB on Tuesday.
First pitch is scheduled for 6 p.m. on SEC Network+.
Information from Arkansas Communications is included in this story.
Razorbacks come close to pulling out win over Georgia, but fall short
ATHENS, Ga. — No. 1 Arkansas nearly overcame a four-run deficit but could not score the game-tying run from third in the ninth in its 7-6 loss against No. 7 Georgia Saturday afternoon at Foley Field.
The loss snapped the Razorbacks’ program-record 12-game SEC win streak and evened the series against the Bulldogs at one game apiece ahead of the weekend finale, which is scheduled for noon Sunday on SEC Network+.
Arkansas will again look to secure its fifth SEC weekend series win of the season and earn its first series win in Athens since 2015.
Georgia jumped out to an early lead after tagging Arkansas starting pitcher Gabe Gaeckle for three runs in the first. The right-hander lasted only two innings, allowing five runs on six hits and a walk with two strikeouts.
The Bulldogs lead 5-1 through the first two innings of play, but the Razorback bullpen would apply the brakes to their hot hitting.
In relief of Gaeckle, who suffered his first loss of the season, Ben Bybee (3.1 IP, 2 R, 5 SO), Christian Foutch (1.2 IP, 5 SO) and Cole Gibler (1.0 IP, 3 SO) combined for six innings of two-run ball with 13 strikeouts and opened the door for the Hogs’ explosive offense to chip away at its multi-run deficit over the game’s remaining frames.
Arkansas did exactly that with a run in the second on Ryder Helfrick’s sixth home run of the season and a run in the third on Logan Maxwell’s RBI groundout to first.
Gabe Fraser, who finished 2-for-3 at the plate and logged his second career multi-hit game, drove in a run in the sixth on his RBI groundout to short, cutting the Razorbacks’ deficit to 6-3.
After Georgia reopened a four-run lead on an RBI double in the bottom half of the sixth, Kuhio Aloy drilled a two-run shot in the top of the eighth to close Arkansas’ gap to 7-5. Kuhio finished 2-for-4 with his 10th home run of the season.
Down a run and down to their final three outs, the Razorbacks had the Bulldogs on the ropes in the ninth.
Wehiwa Aloy drew a leadoff walk before Logan Maxwell singled to first base to put runners at the corners with nobody out.
Wehiwa would scramble home on a wild pitch to cut Arkansas’ deficit to 7-6.
Kendall Diggs, who entered as a pinch runner for Maxwell, advanced to second on the same wild pitch but would ultimately be stranded at third base as the next three Razorback batters went down in order on a pair of groundouts and a game-sealing strikeout.
Information from Arkansas Communications is included in this story.
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