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Razorbacks can’t stop Ole Miss after trading lead four times in Sunday loss

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FAYETTEVILLE — Arkansas and Ole Miss traded leads four times Sunday afternoon in the rubber match at Baum-Walker Stadium, but it was the Rebels that scored six-straight runs in the sixth and seventh innings to beat the Razorbacks, 10-5, earning the series victory.

The series loss breaks a streak of 18-straight home series losses the Razorbacks have had dating back to April of 2017.

The last home series loss came against Ole Miss (April 27-28), which was the last time the Rebels visited Baum-Walker Stadium.

Trevor Ezell takes a pick-off attempt throw from pitcher Cody Scroggins on Ole Miss’ Grae Kessinger. PHOTO BY ANDY HODGES | HITTHATLINE.COM

Arkansas (22-6, 6-3 SEC) had struggles on the pitching staff as they combined for 12 walks in the game. It’s the second time this season the pitchers have walked 12 or more batters in a game, both were losses (14 at No. 9 Texas on March 20).

Ole Miss (20-9, 5-4 SEC) had its leadoff batter reach base in every inning but the first and put the pressure on the Razorback arms early.

Redshirt junior Cody Scroggins worked his way out of a few jams early on for Arkansas, giving up just two runs over four innings, one being a home run.

Arkansas pitching coach Matt Hobbs visits with starter Cody Scroggins as the entire infield listens during the second inning of Sunday’s game with Ole Miss. PHOTO BY ANDY HODGES | HITTHATLINE.COM

However, once the bullpen took over, the Rebels were able to put 14 runners on base over the next three innings, scoring eight times and build their lead to five.

Arkansas’ offense responded well early on when it scored twice in the fourth and three times in the fifth to take its only lead of the game at 5-4.

Junior Dominic Fletcher drove in two of the Hogs’ runs with a single in the fourth and a double down the left field line in the fifth. He finished the game 2-for-4 and had five hits in the series, three being doubles.

Heston Kjerstad. PHOTO BY ANDY HODGES | HITTHATLINE.COM

Fletcher now has 14 doubles this year, which is already two less than he had all of last year. His total also ties for the most in the SEC.

Sophomore Casey Martin provided the only other runs for the Razorbacks in the fifth when he hit his team-leading sixth home run of the year, a two-run blast that tied the game at 4-4.

Martin has two home runs in his last five games and is batting .323 over his last seven games with three multi-hit performances. He went 6-for-13 (.462) in the series against Ole Miss and has a six-game hitting streak.

Christian Franklin. PHOTO BY ANDY HODGES | HITTHATLINE.COM

Along with Martin and Fletcher, Heston Kjerstad, Jack Kenley and Christian Franklin all had two hits in the game. Kjerstad was held hitless in the series until a single in the fourth inning of Sunday’s game.

Kenley has three hits in his last seven at-bats, while Franklin turned in his first multi-hit game since March 19 at No. 9 Texas.

Razorback quotables

“We didn’t give ourselves a chance to win the game. I mean, we walked double digits and hit a couple. We fought back in the game and flipped around the momentum, took the lead 5-4 and come out and walk the leadoff man on four pitches – I think they get a hit, I don’t know what happened after that. Next thing you know they score three. We’re down a couple runs. Give them (Ole Miss) credit, they’ve got a good lineup, but you’ve got to make people earn it, you know. I’d rather them have 20 hits than 14 hits and take away 10 of those walks. I can live with that. It’s not throwing the ball over the plate that really made a difference in the game.” — Coach Dave Van Horn on the 10-5 loss to Ole Miss

“Just talked about paying attention to details. All the little things, like holding runners. Keeping on runners and just throwing the ball over the plate. Make an adjustment. We’re going to make some adjustments, maybe on who travels. If guys can’t throw it over the plate, we’ll give some other guys opportunities. Little things like that.” — Van Horn on his message to the team after the game

“It’s just baseball. You are going to have days when the pitching staff is just not going to be there and we are going to have days where the hitters can’t hit, but today our hitters did a phenomenal job of keeping us in that ballgame, for sure.” — Cody Scroggins on the way things snowball when pitchers are hitting their spots

Casey Martin. PHOTO BY ANDY HODGES | HITTHATLINE.COM

“Take away some positives from the day, learn from the negatives. That will take you a long way. You learn more from when you lose. Coach (Van Horn) kind of said that and he’s 100 percent right.  So take away positives from the day and learn from the negatives.” — Casey Martin on the players’ message to each other

Up next

Arkansas hits the field again on Tuesday against the Little Rock Trojans with first pitch set for 6:30 p.m. at Baum-Walker Stadium.

This will be the first meeting between the two programs in their histories. The game will be televised on SEC Network+.

Razorbacks rally to sweep pair of weekend series in Mississippi

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STARKVILLE, Miss. — The Arkansas women’s tennis team earned its first weekend sweep in conference play, defeating Mississippi State, 4-3, Sunday afternoon.

The Hogs got off to a slow start, dropping the doubles point in the third set. Lauren Alter and Tatum Rice dropped the No. 1 position before Thea Rice and Martina Zerulo evened doubles play with a 6-3 win.

The Bulldogs clinched the point at the No. 3 position as Jackie Carr and Laura Rijkers fell 6-4.

Mississippi State quickly went up 3-0 as Rijkers fell 6-2, 6-2 and No. 115 Martina Zerulo fell 6-1, 6-4. No. 79 Tatum Rice earned Arkansas’ first point of the match, defeating Magda Adaloglou 6-3, 6-3.

The Hogs got within one of the tie at the No. 5 position as Miruna Tudor earned a 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 win.

Alter tied the match in the tiebreaker set, rallying from a first-set deficit for a 3-6, 7-6, 6-3 victory. Carr clinched the match for the Razorbacks with a 5-7, 7-6, 6-2 win at the No. 6 position.

Arkansas will return to the court to close out its home slate next weekend, hosting No. 5 Georgia, No. 24 Tennessee, and Oral Roberts. Senior day activities are set for Sunday afternoon between the Tennessee and Oral Roberts matches.

For more information on Razorback women’s tennis, follow @RazorbackWTEN on Twitter.

Arkansas 4, Mississippi 3

Doubles Results – Order of Finish (1,2,3)
1. Magda Adaloglou/Tamara Racine (MS) def. Lauren Alter/Tatum Rice (ARK) 6-2
2. Thea Rice/Martina Zerulo (ARK) def. Emma Antonaki/Anastasia Rentouli (MS) 6-3
3. Janina Braun/Sara Lizariturry (MS) def. Jackie Carr/Laura Rijkers (ARK) 6-4

Singles Results – Order of Finish (3,1,2,5,4,6)
1. No. 82 Emma Antonaki (MS) def. No. 115 Martina Zerulo (ARK) 6-1, 6-4
2. No. 79 Tatum Rice (ARK) def. Magda Adaloglou (MS) 6-3, 6-3
3. Anastasia Rentouli (MS) def. Laura Rijkers (ARK) 6-1, 6-2
4. Lauren Alter (ARK) def. Tamara Racine (MS) 3-6, 7-6 (7-2), 6-3
5. Miruna Tudor (ARK) def. Janina Braun (MS) 6-4, 4-6, 6-2
6. Jackie Carr (ARK) def. Sara Lizariturry (MS) 5-7, 7-6 (7-1), 6-2

Van Horn not happy with pitching after dropping series to Ole Miss

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Arkansas coach Dave Van Horn wasn’t pleased with his team’s pitching after dropping the series to the Rebels on Sunday, 10-5, with problems on the mound.

Martin, Scroggins talk briefly about team’s play in loss to Ole Miss

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Razorback players Casey Martin and Cody Scroggins talked with the media after Sunday’s 10-5 loss. Scroggins struggled on the mound, but Martin had some big hits.

Warrick’s walk-off double lifts Razorbacks past Kentucky for series win

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FAYETTEVILLE — Katie Warrick delivered a third-pitch double down the left-field line to lift Arkansas to its second conference series win with a 3-2 win over Kentucky.

How it happened

Arkansas (25-11, 6-6) got another solid performance from Autumn Storms in the circle today. Storms recorded her 13th win of the season, forcing 15 groundouts from the Kentucky offense. Storms saw the bases loaded twice and gave up no hits in either situation.

The Razorbacks scored first with an RBI single by Warrick in the first frame. Sophomore Hannah McEwen scored on the hit from third, after reaching first on a base hit to the right side.

Kentucky (22-13, 7-5) tied the game at two runs apiece with a two-RBI single through the right side off the bat of Alex Martens.

Arkansas’ defense held strong in the top of the seventh inning when the Wildcats loaded the bases with two hits and an intentional walk to Abbey Cheek.

Haydi Bugarin fielded a ground ball at second base and made the play at first for the final out of the inning as the Hogs avoided any additional Wildcat runs.

Danielle Gibson reached base in the bottom of the inning and Arkansas called on pinch-runner Carley Haizlip. Haizlip advanced to second and into scoring position with a walk by senior Ashley Diaz.

Warrick’s double that followed was the ninth of her senior season, bringing her career total to 20.

The series

The Razorbacks continue to hold the series history in their hands, taking a 33-26 advantage over the Wildcats.

Arkansas has not taken a weekend series from Kentucky since 2013, when the Hogs defeated the Wildcats in games one and two of the series.

Arkansas also moves to 3-0 all-time when playing Kentucky on March 31.

Notables

• Arkansas is now 22-4 when it scores first and 15-1 when the Hogs score in the first inning.

• Warrick recorded her 19th multi-hit game and 16 multi-RBI game.

• McEwen has now reached base in 34 of 36 contests, recording hits in all but four games.

• Diaz tallied 11 putouts in the win, putting her only 19 from moving into fourth all-time at Arkansas for career putouts.

Up next

Arkansas will start a four-game road stretch on Wednesday when they travel to Missouri State for a non-conference mid-week game with the Bears.

After Wednesday’s contest, the Razorbacks will head south to Gainesville, where they will kick-off a three-game series with Florida starting Friday at 5 p.m.

Gilbert posts lifetime best to close out performances at Texas Relays

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AUSTIN, Texas — Arkansas closed out the Texas Relays as Tre’Bien Gilbert, who ran a lifetime-best to qualify for the final, posted yet another lifetime-best in a seventh-place finish Saturday night.

The 4×800-meter relay of Chase Pareti, Eugene Grayson III, Kevin Wilkinson, and Kieran Taylor brought home bronze in 7:30.83 finishing third-overall.

Next on the track for the Razorbacks was the 4×200-meter relay of Josh Oglesby, Rashad Boyd, Kris Hari, and Carl Elliot III finishing ninth-overall in 1:25.97.

In the final of the men’s 110-meter hurdles, Gilbert ran 13.94 followed closely by teammate Shakiel Chattoo in eighth at 14.04 just two one-hundredths (.02) of a second off his season-best.

Ethan Moehn finished fifth in the Jerry Thompson Invitational Mile running 4:16.77.

Closing out the meet was the 4×400-meter relay of John Winn, Hunter Woodhall, Rhayko Schwartz, and James Milholen combining to run a season-best time of 3:09.94 for sixth-place.

Arkansas returns home to host the John McDonnell Invitational Apr. 12-13 at John McDonnell Field.

Van Horn recapping Saturday’s loss, previews final game of series

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Arkansas coach Dave Van Horn talked with the media after the 4-3 setback against Ole Miss and talked about importance of Sunday series-deciding game.

Razorbacks finish strong on final day at Texas Relays on Saturday

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AUSTIN, Texas — With seven events on the track, Arkansas had a busy afternoon on the final day of the Texas Relays on Saturday.

Arkansas started the day on the track with the finals of the 4×100-meter relay. Kiara Parker, Payton Chadwick, Janeek Brown and Kethlin Campbell qualified Friday afternoon running 44.17, and followed up that performance by lowering their time to 43.62 – the fifth-fastest performance in program history.

In the final of the 100-meter hurdles, Janeek Brown charged out to a lead she held until the final hurdle where she clipped the barrier causing her to lose her balance as she dove torwards the finish line.

Brown took second in a season-best 12.97 while Chadwick followed close behind in third-place at 13.13. Brown’s time is currently the No.2 time in the NCAA trailing only LSU’s Tonea Marshall who bested Brown by a mere one one-hundredth (.01) of a second in Saturday’s final.

Kiara Parker, who qualified for Saturday’s final of the 100-meters with a season-opening 11.21, finished fifth in the final running 11.30 followed by teammate Kethlin Campbell in seventh at 11.56.

The first of two 4×400-meter relays on the day for Arkansas featured Paris Peoples, Sydney Hammit, Sydney Davis, and Shafiqua Maloney running 3:39.06 for fifth-place in the Invitational Section.

The second 4×400-meter relay for the Razorbacks saw Morgan Burks-Magee, Parker, Campbell and Chadwick post a season-best time of 3:33.35 in a second-place finish that is currently No. 4 in the NCAA.

Saturday featured two field events for the Razorbacks as Tori Hoggard, Lexi Jacobus, and Desiree Freier competed in the pole vault university elite section while G’Auna Edwards displayed her talents in the long jump.

Hoggard finished as the top collegian in the competition clearing 4.50m (14-9) – currently the second-best clearance in the NCAA this season.

Jacobus and Freier finished seventh and eighth, respectively, with identical clearances of 4.25m (13-11.25).

G’Auna Edwards finished sixth in section “A” of the university/college division long jump leaping out to a mark of 6.33m (20-9.25) – the No.3 mark in program history.

Arkansas returns home to host the John McDonnell Invitational on April 12-13 at John McDonnell Field.

Razorbacks can’t get key hits as Rebels even series with 4-3 win Saturday

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FAYETTEVILLE — Arkansas couldn’t string enough hits together Saturday afternoon as Ole Miss rallied from a 3-1 deficit to beat the Razorbacks, 4-3, and force a deciding game three Sunday at Baum-Walker Stadium.

Arkansas (22-5, 6-2 SEC) scored all three of their runs in the fourth inning off home runs by Jack Kenley and Christian Franklin, but only had one other hit in the final five innings.

At the time of Franklin’s solo home run, the Razorbacks had the 3-1 lead, but saw it dwindle as the Rebels (19-9, 4-4 SEC) scored runs in the fifth and sixth innings to tie it at 3-3.

In the top of the ninth, Ole Miss took the final lead of the game when Grae Kessinger doubled home pinch runner Carl Gindl to give the Rebels the 4-3 lead.

Arkansas went three-up and three-down in the bottom of the ninth as Ole Miss closer Parker Caracci picked up his seventh save of the season.

Sophomore Casey Martin went a perfect 3-for-3 at the plate, his second three-hit game of the year. Two of his three hits were doubles, setting a career high and extended his hit streak to five games.

Kenley, Franklin and Jacob Nesbit each had one hit in the game as well. Kenley’s home run was his fifth of the year, tying for the team lead, while Franklin’s was his fourth.

Freshman right-hander Connor Noland had a nice bounce-back start after not making it through two innings last week at Alabama. Noland gave up only two earned runs in 4.2 innings on Saturday against Ole Miss, scattering seven hits and striking out three.

Saturday’s loss drops Arkansas to 4-2 in one-run games this year and 3-1 in games that it has scored three or less runs. It also breaks a streak of seven-straight home wins dating back to March 10 against Louisiana Tech.

Razorback quotables

“It was just one of those games we never could get anything going, offensively. We couldn’t string together two hits. It was one hit here, one hit there, maybe a walk and a wind-blown home run. A couple of outs, we hit another wind-blown home run. Other than that, not much offense. We had a couple of chances early to score a run or two. I think we had a runner at third, less than two, we didn’t get him in. Had a first and second, nobody out, middle of the order out, we didn’t get anybody in. We had a couple of shots and we just didn’t do it. Give them credit. They pitched better than we did. But at the same time, we had an opportunity to stay in the game and win the game and we just didn’t do it on the offensive side.” — Coach Dave Van Horn on the 4-3 loss to Ole Miss

“I thought he threw the ball pretty good. He worked out of a couple jams and had a breaking ball really working well. He started spotting the fastball in on some of the righties and made a mistake. (Tyler) Keenan was going to be his last hitter if he got him out or not and he left a changeup first pitch. It was supposed to be down and away and it was kind of up and in. He clubbed it out of the park. But, he gave us a chance to win the game. When he came out of the game, we were winning. He gave us everything we wanted, so I’m proud of him for kind of bouncing back after a couple of weekends where he didn’t throw real well and he made a big move forward this week.” — Van Horn on Connor Noland

“A lot of times it comes down to Sunday. Probably about seven, eight times out of 10 weekends you’ve got to figure out how to win on Sunday to win a series. It’s always a big game on Sunday, no matter what the situation is, but when it’s 1-1 it’s obviously big for both teams.” — Van Horn on playing a rubber match on Sunday against Ole Miss

“I guess there’s no excuses as good as we’ve been hitting. It’s a little frustrating, but then again, that’s baseball. That’s just how it goes. That’s a good team we just played. They made good pitches and we didn’t make swings. That’s on us. We’ll come back tomorrow. We’ll figure it out and we’ll hit like we have been.” — Casey Martin on the offense’s struggles on Saturday

“Coach (Van Horn) preaches on Sundays, they (teams) win championships. We kind of preached on that a little bit. Even though today didn’t go as we planned, we’ll come out tomorrow and we’ll get the dugout in it, we’ll get the hitters in it and pitching will be there like always. I think we’ll show up and do what we always do just like last Sunday. You got to bring it on Sundays, that’s just part of the game.” — Martin on what it will take to win Sunday’s rubber match

Up next

Arkansas and Ole Miss will face off in the rubber match of the three-game series on Sunday at Baum-Walker Stadium.

First pitch is slated for 1:30 p.m. and will be televised on SEC Network+.

Razorbacks split Saturday doubleheader with Bulldogs, Golden Lions

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FAYETTEVILLE — Arkansas split its doubleheader on Saturday against Mississippi State and Arkansas-Pine Bluff.

The Razorbacks fell to the eighth-ranked Bulldogs, 5-2, before sweeping the Golden Lions, 7-0.

Mississippi State took the doubles point to go up 1-0 in the first match of the day off of consecutive victories on courts three and one. Eighth-ranked Nuno Borges and his partner Strahinja Rakic defeated Oscar Mesquida and Adam Sanjurjo in a tightly contested match 6-4 to secure the point.

Mississippi State would jump out to a 2-0 lead with a win on the third court before Josh Howard-Tripp took Arkansas’ first court of the day on the second court, beating Niclas Braun 6-3, 6-3 to cut the lead to 2-1.

After a win on court four, the Bulldogs would clinch the match on court one as No. 2 Nuno Borges took the first set 6-3, before taking the second set 7-6(3), despite No. 52 Oscar Mesquida forcing a tiebreaker in the second set.

In the final court, Jose Dominguez Alonso would win on five 6-4, 6-4 over Florian Broska for a 5-2 final score against the Bulldogs.

In the day’s second match, Arkansas cruised passed the Golden Lions of UAPB with a 7-0 sweep.

Competing only five athletes, UAPB forfeited the third court in doubles and the sixth court in singles. The doubles point was secured on the second court as Pedro Alonso and Josh Bortnick garnered a 6-1 victory over Simon Lewis and Kameron Myers.

Owning a 2-0 victory in singles, Enrique Paya defeated Kameron Myers 6-0, 6-0 to put Arkansas within one point of clinching the match.

Adam Sanjurjo would clinch the match on court two with a 6-0, 6-1 win as the Hogs would win the final three courts for a 7-0 final.

Doubles Results – Order of Finish (3,1)
1. No. 8 Nuno Borges/Strahinja Rakic (MS) def. Oscar Mesquida/Adam Sanjurjo (AR) 6-4
2. Maxim Verboven/Enrique Paya (AR) vs. Gregor Ramskogler/Trevor Foshey (MS) 5-5, unfinished
3. Florian Broska/Niclas Braun (MS) def. Alex Reco/Jose Alonso (AR) 6-3

Singles Results – Order of Finish (3,2,4,1,6,5)
1. No. 2 Nuno Borges (MS) def. No. 52 Oscar Mesquida (AR) 6-3, 7-6 (7-3)
2. Josh Howard-Tripp (AR) def. Niclas Braun (MS) 6-3, 6-3
3. Strahinja Rakic (MS) def. Alex Reco (AR) 6-4, 6-3
4. Trevor Foshey (MS) def. Enrique Paya (AR) 6-4, 6-4
5. Jose Alonso (AR) def. Florian Broska (MS) 6-4, 6-4
6. Gregor Ramskogler (MS) def. Maxim Verboven (AR) 7-6 (9-7), 6-4

Arkansas 7, UAPB 0
Doubles Results – Order of Finish (3,2,1)
1. Oscar Mesquida/Enrique Paya (AR) def. Le’Derrien Ledbetter/Thomas Harris (UAPB) 6-2
2. Pedro Alonso/Josh Bortnick (AR) def. Simon Lewis/Kameron Myers (UAPB) 6-1
3. Josh Howard-Tripp/Adam Sanjurjo (AR) def. No player/No player (UAPB), by forfeit

Singles Results – Order of Finish (6,3,2,1,4,5)
1. Oscar Mesquida (AR) def. Le’Derrien Ledbetter (UAPB) 6-1, 6-0
2. Adam Sanjurjo (AR) def. Simon Lewis (UAPB) 6-0, 6-1
3. Enrique Paya (AR) def. Kameron Myers (UAPB) 6-0, 6-0
4. Pedro Alonso (AR) def. Thomas Harris (UAPB) 6-0, 6-1
5. Josh Bortnick (AR) def. Junius Ross (UAPB) 6-0, 6-1
6. Maxim Verboven (AR) def. No player (UAPB), by forfeit

Kentucky rolls past Razorbacks on Saturday to even series at Bogle Park

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FAYETTEVILLE — Arkansas dropped game two of its series to Kentucky on Saturday, 16-2, after four errors and some hot hitting by the Wildcats.

Arkansas now stands at 24-10 overall, 5-6 in conference play.

Up next

No. 13 Arkansas and No. 18 Kentucky will fight for the series Sunday at 1p.m.

Sunday’s game will be available for streaming on SEC+. Live scoring will also be available for fans, links for both are below.

How it happened

• A passed ball and Razorback error put the Hogs behind early, trailing 3-0 after the first frame.

• Starting pitcher Mary Haff was relieved with two outs in the first inning after a collision at home plate during a scoring play. Junior Lauren Graves entered and struck out the final Wildcat, swinging.

• Seven Wildcat runs crossed in the second off seven Kentucky hits and three more errors by the Arkansas defense. Five of those runs were scored with two outs on the board.

• The Hogs scored their only two runs of the game in the bottom of the second, off the bat of senior Ashley Diaz, whose single up the middle brought in Nicole Duncan and Keely Edwards.

• The Razorbacks gave up no additional errors, but Kentucky’s offense stayed hot, with six runs over the third and fourth innings. The fifth inning was the only inning UK did not score a run.

Notables

• UK’s 16 runs is the most runs allowed in a single game by Arkansas since April 16, 2016 when the Hogs gave up 23 runs to #3 Auburn in game two of the series.

• Three Razorbacks saw time in the circle today: Haff, Graves, and senior Katie Warrick. Combined, the trio dished out three strikeouts and three walks.

• Today’s run-rule defeat was the second of the season, after the Razorbacks dropped game two of the series to Ole Miss (12-0).

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