Hunter Yurachek is wasting little time getting new coach Eric Musselman and his family to Fayetteville from Reno, Nevada, after announcing the hire earlier today.
I am beyond excited to be headed to Fayetteville. Would love any tips on how to appropriately call the hogs #WPS #OneRazorback pic.twitter.com/YJHVhYnwwM
— Eric Musselman (@EricPMusselman) April 7, 2019
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Tyson Reeder finished third and Mason Overstreet eighth and the Arkansas men’s golf program shot a final-round, even-par 288 to place fourth with a total of 845 at the 15-team Augusta Haskins Award Invitational, played at Forest Hills Golf Club.
Reeder’s third-place finish was his career-best and his second career top 10. He also posted career bests with a 54-hole score of 207 (64-70-73) and finishing 9-under par.
In the final round, the junior was 4-over through 16 holes but rallied to finish eagle-birdie to card his 73 Sunday and third-place finish.
Reeder’s 14 birdies over 54 holes were the third-best total in the field and his most over 54 holes in his career. Reeder additionally carded his team-best, fourth eagle of the season.
Overstreet was steady throughout the final round, recording 14 pars, a bogey and three birdies to post a 2-under-par 70. With his final-round performance, Overstreet moved up four spots to finish in a tie for eighth with a total of 210 (74-66-70).
The junior now has 12 rounds of par or better this season with three top 10 finishes. The junior finished with 36 pars over 54 holes, the sixth-best total in the field and his second-best total of the season.
Overstreet also had 12 birdies, tying for his second-best total of the season.
Wake Forest, ranked third nationally, won the team title with a score of 828, #19 South Carolina (831), #7 Texas (834), #37 Arkansas (845) and Notre Dame (853).
The Razorback score in relation to par (-19) at Augusta is the program’s best of the season and the score of 845 is the best of the spring as the team closes the regular season and will begin preparing for the 2019 SEC Championship, played April 24-28.
Julian Perico finished in a tie for 33rd, shooting an even-par 216 (70-73-73). He started slowly in the final round with three bogeys and a birdie through five holes.
However, he closed the day with 12 pars and a birdie for his 73. William Buhl tied for 39th with a 54-hole total of 218 (72-71-75).
Luis Garza jumped nine spots on the leaderboard after a final-round 72, finishing in a tie for 42nd with a total of 219 (71-76-72). Garza off-set two bogeys with two birdies to post his even-par round.
Augusta Haskins Award Invitational
April 6-7 • 54 holes (36 holes Saturday, 18 holes Sunday)
Forest Hills Golf Club • Augusta Ga.
Par 72 • 7,005 Yards
| Place | Player | RD1 | RD2 | RD3 | Total | To Par |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | Tyson Reeder (3) | 64 | 70 | 73 | 2017 | -9 |
| T8 | Mason Overstreet (4) | 74 | 66 | 70 | 210 | -6 |
| T33 | Julian Perico (1) | 70 | 73 | 73 | 216 | E |
| T39 | William Buhl (2) | 72 | 71 | 75 | 218 | +2 |
| T42 | Luis Garza (5) | 71 | 76 | 72 | 219 | +3 |
| Place | Team | RD1 | RD2 | RD3 | Total | To Par |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | #3 Wake Forest | 269 | 278 | 281 | 828 | -36 |
| 2. | #19 South Carolina | 282 | 276 | 273 | 831 | -33 |
| 3. | #7 Texas | 270 | 279 | 285 | 834 | -30 |
| 4. | #37 Arkansas | 277 | 280 | 288 | 845 | -19 |
| 5. | Notre Dame | 291 | 283 | 279 | 853 | -11 |
| 6. | Augusta | 283 | 284 | 288 | 855 | -9 |
| 7. | #23 Illinois | Ilin283 | 289 | 286 | 858 | -6 |
| 8. | Mercer | 284 | 285 | 282 | 851 | -3 |
| 9. | UCF | 287 | 294 | 281 | 862 | -2 |
| 10. | Houston | 283 | 291 | 290 | 864 | E |
| 11. | Virginia Tech | 280 | 294 | 295 | 869 | +5 |
| 12. | USC Aiken (#24 DII) | 295 | 278 | 298 | 871 | +7 |
| 13. | Northern Illinois | 292 | 288 | 295 | 875 | +11 |
| 14. | Georgia State | 299 | 294 | 304 | 897 | +33 |
| 15. | Air Force | 296 | 304 | 301 | 901 | +37 |
ATHENS, Ga. — Arkansas fell to No. 19 Georgia, 6-1, in Athens on Sunday afternoon.
The team will return to action this Thursday at Alabama, before returning home to host Auburn on Saturday.
The Razorbacks got out to a 1-0 lead by taking the doubles point on courts two and three. Alex Reco and his partner Jose Dominguez Alonso took their court 6-4.
After falling on court one, the point was decided on the second court as Maxim Verboven and Enrique Paya delivered a 6-4 victory to secure an early lead.
The Bulldogs would even the match on court three, and take their first lead on the second court as No. 26 Emil Reinberg (UGA) def. Adam Sanjurjo 6-3, 6-1.
The match would be clinched on consecutive two-set victories by Georgia on courts six and five, respectively. Oscar Mesquida would take his match to the third set tiebreaker, before falling to 15th-ranked Jan Zielinski (UGA), 3-6, 6-3, 6-4.
For more information on Arkansas men’s tennis, including in-match updates, follow @RazorbackMTEN on Twitter.
Singles Results – Order of Finish (3,2,6,5,4,1)
1. No. 15 Jan Zielinski (UGA) def. #60 Oscar Mesquida (AR) 3-6, 6-3, 6-4
2. No. 26 Emil Reinberg (UGA) def. Adam Sanjurjo (AR) 6-3, 6-1
3. Trent Bryde (UGA) def. Josh Howard-Tripp (AR) 6-2, 6-2
4. Robert Loeb (UGA) def. Alex Reco (AR) 7-5, 6-4
5. Walker Duncan (UGA) def. Enrique Paya (AR) 6-1, 6-4
6. Blake Croyder (UGA) def. Pedro Alonso (AR) 6-3, 6-2
Doubles Results – Order of Finish (3,1,2)
1. No. 21 Robert Loeb/Jan Zielinski (UGA) def. Adam Sanjurjo/Oscar Mesquida (AR) 6-4
2. Maxim Verboven/Enrique Paya (AR) def. Walker Duncan/Emil Reinberg (UGA) 6-4
3. Alex Reco/Jose Alonso (AR) def. Trent Bryde/Blake Croyder (UGA) 6-4
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Katie Warrick soared her seventh home run of the season over the left-center wall in the second inning to give the Razorbacks a 1-0 lead in game three of the series, on Sunday.
It wasn’t enough, as Florida scored three unearned runs to take the lead and secure the 3-1 win.
Arkansas (26-14, 6-9) was unable to recover from the two-run deficit, caused by two Razorback throwing errors. The first error came in the third inning, when leadoff batter Jordan Roberts reached on an error.
Roberts’ pinch runner, Amanda Beane and eight-hole batter Jordan Matthews would score later in the inning on a single to center field by Amanda Lorenz.
The final run of the game came in the fifth inning, when the second Arkansas error allowed center fielder Jade Carraway to reach first.
Carraway scored on the next hit, a double to left field by Lorenz.
Junior Autumn Storms had another successful day in the circle, giving up only five hits and striking out five. She finishes the weekend with two complete games and a 0.00 ERA.
Storms gave up only one multi-base hit in her 12 innings of work and the Gators managed only a .174 average at the plate while Storms was in the circle.
Notables
• Hannah McEwen’s fifth-inning double has put her season total at 36 games in which she reached base safely.
• Warrick’s home run was the 34th for the Razorbacks this season.
• Storms has recorded only 23 walks in 28 appearances this season. Striking out at least one batter in every appearance, she currently has a career-best 1.70 ERA this season.
Up next
Arkansas returns to Fayetteville with full home schedule ahead. The Razorbacks will host Wichita State on Wednesday for a doubleheader, then play host to Furman for a three-games series beginning Saturday.
Arkansas will then close out the six-game home stand with a mid-week contest with UAPB on Tuesday (April 16).
After a two-week process that had Arkansas basketball fans squirming and a constant stream of rumors, athletics director Hunter Yurachek announced the hiring of Eric Musselman on Sunday afternoon.
I am excited to officially announce the hiring of Eric Musselman as our new Head Coach for @RazorbackMBB. And to welcome his wife Danyelle, their daughter Mariah and sons, Matthew and Michael to the Arkansas Razorback Family. #OneRazorback pic.twitter.com/ydHjNwG2UY
— Hunter Yurachek (@HunterYurachek) April 7, 2019
— Hunter Yurachek (@HunterYurachek) April 7, 2019
Musselman will be paid $2.5 million a year over five years with incentives.
• Letter of agreement with Musselman
Anderson was fired last month after three NCAA Tournament appearances in eight years because Yurachek felt the program wasn’t headed in the direction of competing for SEC and national championships every year.
“Eric Musselman is a coach that has had experience at every level of basketball from the NCAA to the NBA,” Yurachek said in a press release. “He was practically born into the game and his passion for basketball is unmistakable.
“He has been successful throughout his career, including the remarkable job he did in returning the University of Nevada into a perennial NCAA Tournament team.
“Coach Musselman is high-energy and possesses an extremely high basketball IQ. He has a great attention to detail and has structured his programs to develop players individually while building a successful team.
“I am pleased to welcome Coach Musselman, his wife Danyelle and his family to the Razorback family.”
He is the former head coach of the Sacramento Kings and Golden State Warriors of the NBA.
Between head coaching stints at Golden State and Sacramento, Musselman served as an assistant for the Memphis Grizzlies under Mike Fratello.
He moved to the college coaching ranks in 2012 as an assistant at Arizona State, then to LSU for the 2014-15 season before going to Reno for the Nevada job.
“My family and I couldn’t be more excited to be coming to the University of Arkansas,” Musselman said in a press release. “The opportunity to be a part of the rich tradition of Razorback Basketball and to experience the passion of the Razorback fans is something that I am very much looking forward to.
“I am appreciative of the professional manner in which Hunter Yurachek conducted the search and am grateful for the support of Chancellor Steinmetz and all of those affiliated with the University of Arkansas.
“I am ready to get to work with our student-athletes to prepare our program to compete at the highest level of college basketball.”
Musselman was a head coach in the CBA before becoming an assistant coach with the Minnesota Timberwolves, the Orlando Magic under Chuck Daly and Doc Rivers, and the Alanta Hawks under Lon Kruger.
In four seasons with the Wolf Pack, he went 24-14 his first season and won the CBI Tournament.
That was followed by three straight appearances in the NCAA and climbing as high as No. 5 in the regular-season polls before losing to Florida in the first round and finishing No. 20 in the final media and coaches’ polls.
His four-year record at Nevada was 110-34 (76.4%) with a one-point loss in the Sweet 16 in 2018.
At the conclusion of a spring practice that can best be called a back-to-basics time, the offense found itself losing to the defense nearly every day due and didn’t look ready for the season Saturday.
“The goal of spring was not to be ready for fall,” was what Chad Morris said after the defense beat the offense, 39-33, in the annual Red-White game.
Some fans will struggle with that.
Look at the calendar, though. It’s almost five months until the Razorbacks open the season against Portland State. It’s about four months before they re-group for fall camp.
No team can keep an edge developed in March and the first week of April through to August.
“The goal of spring is to get this football team ready to go for summer,” Morris said.
That is the fourth quarter in Morris’ system. He outlined that before his first spring practice with the Hogs and he’s re-stated that position a couple of times, but folks tend to not pay attention.
Going 2-10 in his first season wasn’t what the fans wanted OR what Morris wanted. It’s what he got, though, and he’s dealing with the way things are with his often-repeated goal to get to the level of “best.”
Summer practices are led by the players, but Morris needed to instill what he wanted in those practices because he and his staff can’t attend those.
“Summer is to get them transitioned into that fourth quarter and into fall camp,” Morris said.
Bringing in Ben Hicks as a graduate transfer quarterback was part of the teaching equation. Hicks’ job has been to teach as much as take snaps from center Ty Clary. He’s admitted as much, but the players have bought into both Hicks and what’s he’s telling them.
Saturday’s game played out about like most of the practices this spring.
“Sometimes it’s just one of those days you can’t get anything going in the beginning,” Hicks told the media later.
Part of that is by this point everybody has seen everything on both sides of the ball.
“We’ve been seeing each other all spring,” he said. “We know what they’re going to run and they know what we’re going to run.”
Improvement on the defensive side is hopefully helping the offense, too.
“They have a lot of experience on that side and have a good coach,” he said. “It’s been huge for us to go against them every day. I think we’re better because of it.”
On a day, though, when the offense didn’t run up and down the field, freshman wide receiver Trey Knox showed why everybody has talked about him from the time of his recruitment.
His 45-yard touchdown catch with 1:21 to play in the first half got folks attention. He caught a well-thrown ball from Hicks over Jarques McClellion, then left Kamren Curl grabbing air.
“We’ve seen that,” Morris said. “That’s been consistent all spring and that’s probably what’s been impressive about Trey.”
It even got the defense’s attention.
“He’s going to be great for the present and the future,” defensive tackle Sosa Agim said later about Knox. “I think he’s a three-year type of guy. He’s a great talent and all I can tell Razorback fans is enjoy him while he’s here.”
The best part for Hog fans is he’s just the one who made the biggest play Saturday. Koilan Jackson may be a name people have forgotten about, but he’s starting to show the development of the coaching he’s been getting, which has come directly from Morris.
Shamar Nash has shown some positives and everybody knows what Cheyenne O’Grady can do, even though he didn’t play Saturday.
And more are coming.
All anybody had to do was look on the sidelines at a couple of points during the Red-White game.
Warren’s Treylon Burks and Pulaski Academy’s Hudson Henry were standing together, chatting about something.
Burks will be on campus at the end of May. Henry somewhere around then, too, along with the rest of some talented skill players in the 2019 class (which Morris said Saturday he still has two scholarships open).
When those guys arrive, the pace of summer practices will pick up. Hicks, who is the likely leader on the offensive side of those workouts, will have some young, talented players to be teaching.
All of that is why Morris has wanted to get the basics in during the spring.
He’s hoping it pays off in the fall.
Arkansas coach Chad Morris talked with the media after the spring game where outside of a couple of big plays the offense didn’t show much … on purpose.
COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Arkansas had to wait out a lengthy weather delay before springing to action at the inaugural meet at The Reveille, hosted by Texas A&M where the Razorbacks racked up 99-points in a fourth-place finish highlighted by Janeek Brown’s world-leading 100-meter hurdle performance.
Janeek Brown captured the 100-meter hurdle title running a speedy 12.91 that is the fastest wind-legal time in the world this season, besting the former world-lead of 12.96 by LSU’s Tonea Marshall last week at Texas Relays.
Arkansas’ Payton Chadwick finished runner-up to Brown in a season-best 13.08 while G’Auna Edwards (13.86) and J’Alyiea Smith (14.07) finished 10th and 14th, respectively, with Smith’s time being a personal best in her first collegiate 100-meter hurdles race.
G’Auna Edwards leaped out to the No. 2 mark in program history in the long jump, finishing with a best of 6.42m (21-0.75) that trails only Taliyah Brooks’ mark of 6.78m (22-3) from last season. Edwards is currently No. 5 in the NCAA in the long jump.
The Razorbacks started the meet on the track by running 44.05 in the 4×100-meter relay besting the home team Texas A&M (44.27) and Baylor (44.81) who finished second and third, respectively.
Three Razorbacks finished in the top-10 in the 400-meters led by Morgan Burks-Magee who crossed the line in 53.27 followed by Paris Peoples in 54.17 for fifth and Sydney Hammit in 54.56 for ninth.
Brown, who posted a world-leading time to start the meet, returned for the open 100-meters where she ran 11.48 for second-place trailing only Texas’ Teahna Daniels in 11.38.
Tiana Wilson (11.66) finished fourth, Kethlin Campbell (11.69) took fifth, with Tamara Kuykendall (11.95) rounding out the competition in the 100-meters with a 13th-place showing.
Alex Byrnes, the lone competitor in the 800-meters for Arkansas, finished fifth in a season-best 2:10.52.
Smith returned to the track for the 400-meter hurdles where she posted a lifetime-best in the event running 59.42 in a runner-up finish.
Ten Razorbacks backed into the blacks for the 200-meters, but none ran faster than Arkansas’ Campbell who needed only 23.60 seconds to complete the half-lap race.
Campbell led the way with her second-place finish but was accompanied in the top-10 by Chadwick who finished fifth in 23.83.
Morgan Hartsell cleared 3.56m (11-8) on the day for 10th-place.
The final event of the day saw the 4×400-meter relay of Sydney Hammit, Paris Peoples, Sydney Davis and Shafiqua Maloney turn in a second-place finish running 3:39.68.
Arkansas returns home to John McDonnell Field where the Razorbacks will host the John McDonnell Invitational Apr. 12-13.
For more information on Arkansas track and field, including in-meet updates, follow @RazorbackTF on Twitter.
ARKANSAS’ RESULTS
100-meters
2. Brown, Janeek – 11.48
4. Wilson, Tiana – 11.66
5. Campbell, Kethlin – 11.69
13. Kuykendall, Tamara – 11.95
200-meters
2. Campbell, Kethlin – 23.60
5. Chadwick, Payton – 23.83
12. Burks Magee, Morgan – 24.15
14. Wilson, Tiana – 24.24
22. Hammit, Sydney – 24.90
23. Maloney, Shafiqua – 24.99
25. Peoples, Paris – 25.01
32. Kuykendall, Tamara – 25.26
36. Davis, Sydney – 25.59
38. Edwards, G’Auna – 26.11
400-meters
2. Burks Magee, Morgan – 53.27
5. Peoples, Paris – 54.17
9. Hammit, Sydney – 54.56
16. Maloney, Shafiqua – 55.72
17. Davis, Sydney – 56.80
800-meters
5. Byrnes, Alex – 2:10.52
100-meter hurdles
1. Brown, Janeek – 12.91
2. Chadwick, Payton – 13.08
10. Edwards, G’Auna – 13.86
14. Smith, J’Alyiea – 14.07
400-meter hurdles
2. Smith, J’Alyiea – 59.42
4×100-meter relay
1. Arkansas “A” – 44.05
4×400-meter relay
2. Arkansas “A” – 3:39.68
Pole Vault
10. Hartsell, Morgan – 3.56m (11-8)
Long Jump
1. Edwards, G’Auna – 6.42m (21-0.75)
Arkansas offensive lineman Noah Gatlin and quarterback Ben Hicks talked with the media after the Red’s 39-33 win in the Red-White game Saturday.
Arkansas defensive tackle Sosa Agim and Grant Morgan felt overall the defense played well in the spring game and talked about only losing daily belt one day.
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Arkansas carded rounds of 277 and 280 for a 36-score of 19-under-par 557 to stand in third place at the Augusta Haskins Award Invitational, played at Forest Hills Golf Club (par 72, 7,005-yards).
Four Razorbacks are under par and in the top 25, including Tyson Reeder (2nd), Mason Overstreet (12th), Julian Perico (25) and William Buhl (25th). Wake Forest, ranked third nationally, leads the 15-team field with a scored of 547, followed by #7 Texas (549), #37 Arkansas (557), #19 South Carolina (558) and host Augusta (567).
Reeder carded eight birdies with no bogeys in the opening round and added a 2-under-par 70 in the afternoon session to stand in second place with a 36-hole total of 10-under-par 134 (64-70). The 64 in the morning was a career-best, ties for the lowest round by a Razorback this season and ties for third on the school’s all-time list behind a pair of 63’s. The 134 for 36 holes is Reeder’s career-best, two-round total by seven strokes.
In the opening round, Reeder opened with three pars before carding birdies on five of his seven holes. After four more pars, Reeder closed his round with birdies on three of his last four holes for his 64. In the second round Saturday, Reeder had his first bogey of the event, but immediately answered with a birdie. Two holes later, he dropped another shot but once again responded with a birdie on the following hole to get back to even for the round. Reeder wrapped the afternoon with eight pars and two birdies for a 70.
Overstreet shot an opening-round 74 but came back in the afternoon to shoot a 6-under-par 66 to rocket 37 spots up the leaderboard into a tie for 12th with a score of 140 (-4). The 66 is Overstreet’s best round of the season and 23rd career round in the 60’s. The junior was even par in the morning through 14 holes but suffered bogeys on his 15th and 16th holes to stand at 2-over (74) through 18 holes. Overstreet started the afternoon with four pars before posting six birdies over his next eight holes. He offset a bogey on his 17th hole with a birdie on his 18th hole to finish with a 66.
Perico and Buhl both stand in a tie for 25th with a two-round total of 143 (-1). Perico shot a 2-under-par 70 in the first round thanks to four birdies and two bogeys. In the second round, the freshman shot a 1-over-par 73. Buhl shot an even-par 72 in the first round, getting three birdies and three bogeys. In round two, the junior moved up nine spots into a tie for 25th with a 1-under-par 71.
Luis Garza, who had eight birdies on the day, is tied for 51st after turning in a 36-hole score of 3-over-par 147 (71-76).
The Augusta Haskins Award Invitational will conclude with 18 final holes on Sunday.
3 Arkansas 277 280 557
2 Tyson Reeder (3) 64 70 134
T12 Mason Overstreet (4) 74 66 140
T25 Julian Perico (1) 70 73 143
T25 William Buhl (2) 72 71 143
T51 Luis Garza (5) 71 76 147
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