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Hogs’ sprints dominate at Charlie Thomas Invitational in College Station

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COLLEGE STATION, Texas — No. 1 Arkansas continued its success in the sprints this weekend as the Razorbacks competed at the Charlie Thomas Invitational at Gilliam Indoor Stadium on the campus of Texas A&M.

Arkansas captured event wins in the 60-meters, 200-meters, 400-meters, and 800-meters Saturday afternoon.

Kiara Parker, the reigning Women’s SEC Runner of the Week,  ended the afternoon with two individual wins, taking both the 60-meter and 200-meter titles running 7.24 and 23.26. Parker’s 200-meter time was a season-best while her 60-meter time tied a meet record, matching the mark set by South Carolina’s Lakya Brookins in 2011.

In the 400-meters, Morgan Burks-Magee took the event title running 53.26 while teammates Sydney Hammit and Paris Peoples finished fourth and sixth, respectively, running 54.04 and 54.58.

Arkansas placed six athletes in the top-eight of the 200-meters as Payton Chadwick, Kethlin Campbell, Janeek Brown, Morgan Burks-Magee, Jada Baylark, and Tiana Wilson joined the aforementioned Parker.

Alex Byrnes captured the 800-meter title running a season-best 2:08.61 for the win in a field of 27 athletes.

J’Alyiea Smith finished 15th in the long jump with a best of 5.22m (17-1.50).

Arkansas returns to Randal Tyson for the Tyson Invitational Friday and Saturday, Feb. 8-9.

Hogs turn blowout into nail-biting 90-89 win over LSU in Baton Rouge

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Arkansas was good enough in Baton Rouge on Saturday to have an 18-point lead over an LSU team that was undefeated in SEC play with 13:45 to go in the game.

They were lucky enough to get out with a 90-89 win and get the Hogs’ first win over a ranked team in awhile.

It is the third straight SEC win for Arkansas.

Mike Anderson had talked on Thursday about how they needed defense to travel this week and it did to a certain point, keeping the Tigers at 44 percent from the field and shutting them out the final 2:01 of the game.

For the Hogs, though, it was more important in this one that they found some offense.

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Daniel Gafford had 23 points before fouling out late, but Keyshawn Embery-Simpson came off the bench red hot, scoring 16, then Isaiah Joe found his shooting touch after an illness last week and added 18.

LSU managed to come back behind a parade to the free-throw line, making 34-of-38 attempts (the Hogs shot just 11 free throws all night) and had a shot to win it at the end until their usually reliable point guard, Tremont Waters, tried an ill-advised alley-oop pass with a 1-point lead and 36 seconds left that went haywire.

Arkansas came down and Mason Jones made a short jumper with 22 seconds left to swing it the other way and the Tigers missed three shots at the other end, including a layup, to give the Hogs a much-needed win.

The Razorbacks were 13-of-24 from the 3-point line, but LSU won the rebounds, 44-20.

Arkansas has now won three straight SEC games to move to 13-8 overall (4-4 in the SEC) while LSU fell to 17-4 (7-1 in the SEC).

The Hogs will host Vanderbilt on Tuesday night in an 8 p.m. game.

Strong fall hopefully leads to excellent spring for Hogs’ men’s golf

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FAYETTEVILLE — The 13th-ranked Arkansas men’s golf team is poised to capitalize on a strong fall season as it starts the spring portion of its schedule Feb. 4-5.

The culmination of the schedule has the Razorbacks hosting the NCAA Championship at the Blessings Golf Course.

Arkansas will have a strong test to start the spring season at the annual Sea Best Invitational, which is played in Ponte Vedra, Fla., at the TPC Sawgrass Dye’s Valley Course. The 14-team field features eight of the nation’s top 50 programs.

The Razorbacks are coming off a strong fall season, facing one of the nation’s toughest schedules.

• Arkansas finished the fall ranked 13th in the GolfStat national rankings.

• Arkansas was one of just two programs to have five players ranked among the nation’s top 200.

• The Razorbacks finished among the top four in each of their five fall events, including a runner-up finish at the Jerry Pate Intercollegiate.

• Junior William Buhl and freshman Julian Perico each won individual medalist honors. The titles were the first collegiate wins for both. Buhl won the Gopher Invitational and Perico set several school records in winning the Jerry Pate Intercollegiate.

• The starting five all had scoring averages below 72.2, including Mason Overstreet (70.75), Julian Perico (71.07), William Buhl (71.20), Luis Garza (71.87) and Tyson Reeder (72.13).

• Mason Overstreet finished among the top 20 in all four of his events, including two top 10’s. Julian Perico had two top 5’s. Buhl and Garza tallied three top 20’s.

• Overstreet played in two prestigious individual events (Sun Bowl All-America and Patriot All-American) over the break while Julian Perico and Luis Garza recently competed in the Latin America Amateur Championship.

In addition to success on the course, the program had an impressive fall in the classroom.

• Six Razorbacks posted a 3.00 GPA or higher for the fall semester.

• Seven Razorbacks have a cumulative 3.00 GPA or higher for their career.

• Thomas Critch and Luis Garza earned Athletic Department Honor Roll.

• Noah Edmonson, Landon Ernst and Wilson Gibson earned Athletic Director’s Honor Roll

• Mason Overstreet earned Champions Honor Roll and he posted a perfect 4.0 GPA for the second straight semester.

2019 Sea Best Invitational
Feb. 4-5
Hosted by Jacksonville
Ponte Vedra, Fla. – TPC Sawgrass – Dye’s Valley Course
6,873-yard, Par 70
Live Results

Arkansas Lineup
1 – Mason Overstreet (Jr.)
2 – William Buhl (Jr.)
3 – Julian Perico (Fr.)
4 – Luis Garza (Jr.)
5 – Tyson Reeder (Jr.)
Ind. – Wil Gibson (Fr.)

The Field
No. 13 Arkansas
No. 42 Campbell
East Carolina
No. 46 Florida
No. 39 Florida State
Jacksonville
No. 35 Liberty
Lipscomb
McNeese State
No. 30 North Carolina
No. 26 North Carolina State
No. 23 North Florida
No. 24 UNLV
USC-Upstate

Arkansas wraps up competing in desert at New Mexico Classic

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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The Arkansas men’s team wrapped up action at the New Mexico Collegiate Classic Saturday afternoon at the Convention Center Indoor Track.

On the track, Gabe Moore and Derek Jacobus got the Razorbacks going with prelim and finals action in the 60-meter hurdles. Moore and Jacobus registered times of 8.10 and 8.61, respectively, in the prelims before finishing second and eighth in the final. Moore posted a time of 8.08 in the final while Jacobus ran 8.72.

In the 400-meters, Moore put together a personal-best performance in the race running 48.87 for 10th-place followed by Jacobus in 14th-place at 51.50.

Sam Kempka and Jeff Rogers rounded out the day for Arkansas in the shot put where Kempka finished fourth with a best of 17.48m (57-4.25), while Rogers took sixth with a mark of 16.91m (55-5.75) in the event.

Arkansas returns to Randal Tyson for the Tyson Invitational Friday and Saturday, Feb. 8-9.

Gafford talks about Hogs’ composure in win over Tigers on Saturday

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Monk, Dungee look to lead Razorbacks against ranked South Carolina

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FAYETTEVILLE — Chelsea Dungee and Malica Monk return to the court with Arkansas’ women’s basketball team in SEC action against No. 16 South Carolina on Sunday in Bud Walton Arena.

The Razorbacks (16-6, 5-3 SEC) host the Gamecocks (15-5, 7-1 SEC) in a 4 p.m. tip on the SEC Network.

Inside The Lane
Date: Sunday, Feb. 3, 2019
Time: 4 p.m.
Broadcast: SECN: https://es.pn/2WCNc5p
Live Scoring: http://statb.us/e/233642
Promotions: Junior Spirit Day Clinic, pregame autographs with the spirit team, Sunday Funday, Educator Appreciation Day ($2 tickets with ID).

Arkansas has been led by Dungee and Monk all season with both players in the midst of career-best years. Dungee has had back-to-back 25+ point games with 25 at Florida and 28 against Georgia.

She has had 19 games in double figures and 10 with 20 or more points this season.

Monk surpassed the 1,000-point mark earlier this season and the North Little Rock, Arkansas, native has been in double figures 17 times this year. She has scored 20 or more points three times this season including twice in the last five games.

While the Arkansas offense runs through its two leaders, South Carolina throws a balanced attack at its opponents on both sides of the ball. The Gamecocks have four players averaging double figures led by Te’a Cooper with 13.1 points per game.

South Carolina is equally sound on the boards with three players averaging around 5 rebounds per contest.

Sunday’s game is the second of two consecutive home contests for the Razorbacks. Arkansas next travels to LSU on Feb. 7 and returns home hosting Auburn on Feb. 10.

Arkansas tops Kansas State on senior day in regular season finale

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FAYETTEVILLE — The Arkansas swimming and diving team defeated Kansas 172-128 Saturday afternoon in the regular season finale, honoring its 10 seniors prior to the meet.

With the victory, the Razorbacks extended their winning streak against the Jayhawks to 10.

The Hogs won 11 events and earned 24 podium finishes, sweeping the podium in the 100 yard freestyle. Freshman Vanessa Herrmann led the team with three individual first-place finishes, while Peyton Palsha, Marlena Pigliacampi, and Anna Hopkin each recorded two.

Palsha set a season-best time in the 1000 yard freestyle (9:53.82), just 0.28 seconds away from setting a lifetime best. Herrmann set a lifetime best in the 100 yard breaststroke (1:02.16), breaking the time she set in November.

The Hogs will return to the pool Feb. 23 in Athens, Ga. for the SEC Championships.

Former Razorback All-American Glen Ray Hines passes away at 75

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FAYETTEVILLE — Glen Ray Hines, the first offensive tackle in Arkansas history to earn All-America honors (1965) and a member of the program’ 1964 National Championship football team, passed away in Fayetteville on Friday at the age of 75.

A native of El Dorado, Arkansas, Hines was a mainstay in the middle of the Razorbacks’ offensive front during Arkansas’ historic run in the mid-1960s. A three-year football letterman, he helped lead the Hogs to a 25-7 record in his tenure, including an 11-0 record in 1964 on the way to a national championship.

He was also a part of a school-record 22-game winning streak. Hines was a consensus All-American in 1965, recognized by the American Football Coaches Association, the Associated Press, the Football Writers Association of America and the Walter Camp Foundation. He also earned All-Southwest Conference (SWC) honors in both 1965 and 1966.

“Glen Ray was a gentle giant,” Razorback teammate Ken Hatfield said. “He was as genuine a teammate as you would ever want. He was always positive and encouraging. He was a quiet guy. He didn’t say a lot, but when he did you listened.

“He had a great joy and countenance about him. He was a great football player. Glen Ray was loved by his teammates and he will be missed.”

The Houston Post named Hines the Southwest Conference Most Outstanding Player for the 1965 season. He was selected to the SWC All-Time team in 1996. Hines was also named Coaches All-American Game; College All-Star Game and the Hula Bowl.

A member of the UA’s All-Century team, Hines was named to the Razorbacks’ 1960s All-Decade squad.

Hines went on to an eight-year professional football career with Houston, New Orleans, and Pittsburgh.

Throughout his time in the NFL he played in 115 consecutive games, including three playoff games, showing his durability as a player. Hines was an AFL All-Star game selection in both 1968 and 1969 before retiring in 1973.

He was named a member of the San Antonio Express News All-Time SWC Football Team 75 years of SWC First-Team Offense in July 1989.

In the December 2005 issue, Hines was named to the Football Digest All-Time Oilers Team. He was inducted into the UA Sports Hall of Honor in 2001 and the Union County Sports Hall of Fame in 2012. In 2018, Hines was inducted into the Southwest Conference Hall of Fame.

Could Hogs’ spring practice feature Hicks’ teaching as much as playing?

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Former SMU quarterback Ben Hicks wasn’t exactly the glamorous name many Arkansas fans were hoping for when Chad Morris said back in December he was pursuing an “older quarterback.”

Morris recruited Hicks to SMU. He and offensive coordinator Joe Craddock developed him into the Mustangs’ leading passer.

But, maybe more importantly, Hicks worked with some big-time wide receivers, particularly Courtland Sutton, who was the No. 40 overall pick in the NFL draft in 2018 by the Denver Broncos.

He and Hicks more or less came through the development of Morris’ offensive system together. Sutton was a defensive back his freshman year with SMU, was injured and got a medical hardship, plus a new coach who moved him to offense.

Hicks now has a fairly talented group of freshmen wide receivers coming to Fayetteville, plus some young quarterbacks, who will likely start the season behind him. It won’t be surprising to see him leading the offense in spring and August practices.

It was clear in the first four practice periods per day the media got to watch things last year the amount of teaching was almost overwhelming at times.

Experienced quarterbacks Cole Kelley and Ty Storey often appeared as confused as their receivers. As the season wore on, the routes practiced became more and more basic.

The result was a season everybody would like to forget and now both of those guys are gone and Hicks will be the quarterback early.

At least he knows what Morris and Craddock want the quarterback doing.

We’ll see if he can explain it to the receivers.

The potential is there for this group that includes early enrollees Shamar Nash and Trey Knox, a signee in TQ Jackson and expected Wednesday signees Treylon Burks and Hudson Henry.

Predicting college careers for high school stars is for other people. There are too many variables that have nothing to do with football that come into play and can often derail talented players for me to start forecasting careers.

But the potential is there with this group to be as good as the 2008 class (Jarius Wright, Joe Adams, Greg Childs, Chris Gragg). They had to prove it on the field, though.

As much as receivers coaches Justin Stepp and Barry Lunney, Jr., will be teaching and working with them, Hicks will be as crucial. He’s been there, done it with these coaches, knows what they want and he’s seen up close and personal what a high NFL receiver draft choice does.

Now we won’t know any of these answers for awhile.

With the days counting down fast to the final signing day Wednesday, no one is looking ahead much to spring practice. In Morris’ system of four quarters, we’re getting close to the start of the second quarter (spring practice) towards the end of the month.

That may give us some clues.

But few answers.

it’s frustrating for fans, but, once again, nobody will really know what they don’t know about this team for awhile.

 

Nairn, Sullins capture event titles at New Mexico Invitational on Friday afternoon

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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M — Arkansas opened the New Mexico Collegiate Classic event titles in the weight throw and long jump Friday afternoon at the New Mexico Convention Center.

“Going back to the goal coming in with these guys, for the field event athletes – the technical events ‚ they’ve done a great job of putting in the work,” said assistant coach Mario Sategna. “They’ve really done a good job of dialing themselves in as we get closer and closer to the conference meet, that’s why we didn’t want to miss a weekend of meets.

“It was good for Gabe [Moore] and Derek [Jacobus] to get some work in, they’ll come back tomorrow in the hurdles and the 400-meters. I was really happy to see Laquan [Nairn] getting more and more consistent on the runway. I think that’s one of the things in the horizontal jumps with these elevated runways, getting the timing down in a competition setting is important.”

Laquan Nairn led a trio of hogs in the event, finishing with a season-best jump of 7.66m (25-1.75). Gabe Moore was the second-highest finisher for Arkansas posting a fifth-place finish with a best of  7.15m (23-5.50), while Derek Jacobus turned in a jump of 6.83m (22-5) for ninth-place.

In the only other event the Razorbacks were entered in Friday afternoon, Erich Sullins made it three-straight meets with a win in his signature event – the men’s weight throw. Sullins finished with a best of 19.88m (65-2.75) he posted on his fifth attempt.

With [Erich] Sullins, it was good! He continues his undefeated season. it’ll help next week when we get a break in the weather to get outside and throw a little hammer to work on some timing issues and sure things up before the SEC meet,” Sategna finished.

Arkansas will return to the Convention Center tomorrow morning as the Razorbacks are in action across four events.

Carr leads Razorbacks to upset win over ninth-ranked Oklahoma State

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FAYETTEVILLE — Jackie Carr clinched an upset win for Arkansas’ women’s tennis team over No. 9 Oklahoma State, 4-3, on Friday afternoon.

It was Carr’s first match win this season.

The team dropped the doubles point to open the match, with the Cowgirls clinching the point at the No. 1 as Martina Zerulo and Tatum Rice fell 7-6(3). Arkansas quickly evened the match 1-1 at the No. 2 position, with Rice defeating No. 21 Katarina Stresnakova 6-2, 6-3.

Oklahoma State pulled ahead again, as Lauren Alter fell 6-3, 6-4 and Laura Rijkers fell to No. 40 Marina Guinart. The Razorbacks pulled within one at the No. 6 position as Miruna Tudor earned a 6-3, 4-6, 6-0 victory, and tied the match as Zerulo earned a 6-4, 6-4 win.

Carr clinched the match in the tiebreaker set, fighting back from a set-one loss to win the match.

“I’m so happy for this group,” coach Courtney Steinbock said. “It was such a great team effort. I knew coming into the season that we had talent, but we really came to play today. I think the girls see what we have been seeing for the last few months. This is a long season so while we will enjoy this win, we need to get back to work tomorrow.”

Arkansas will return to the court Sunday morning to host Oklahoma in the team’s final home match until SEC play in March. First serve is set for 10 a.m.

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