Strong pitching paces Arkansas in win to even Auburn series
AUBURN, Ala. — Arkansas came from behind Saturday afternoon, defeating 10th-ranked Auburn, 7-3, at Plainsman Park.
After trailing 3-0 after the first two innings, a Jared Gates homer and a strong bullpen led the Hogs to their 12th conference victory of the year and forced a rubber match for the series on Sunday.
Razorback starting pitcher Trevor Stephan labored through 1.1 innings and was relieved early in the game after the Tigers (29-12, 11-6 SEC) struck for three runs.
However, Arkansas (32-9, 12-5 SEC) answered with three runs of their own in the third inning, two from a home run by Gates and two more in the seventh on a sacrifice fly by Dominic Fletcher.
The bullpen responded with seven-straight scoreless frames to finish as the Tigers had no answer for the combination of Cannon Chadwick, Evan Lee, and Jake Reindl.
Gates finished the game just 1-for-5 with two RBIs, but had the all-important homer that tied the game at 3-3.
Luke Bonfield and Eric Cole each turned in two-hit days. It’s the second multi-hit performance for Bonfield in the series and ninth for Cole this season.
Chadwick picked up the win for the Razorbacks after throwing 4.1 scoreless innings with four strikeouts.
It’s his longest outing of his career and his fourth win of the season. Sophomore Jake Reindl picked up the three-inning save, his first of his career.
Reindl shut the door in the seventh, eighth, and ninth innings, striking out a career-high six batters and only allowed three baserunners.
In four of his last seven outings, the sophomore has racked up four or more strikeouts and has only given up one earned run in five conference appearances.
Moments That Mattered
Auburn chased Stephan in the middle of the second inning after jumping out to a 3-0 lead. Stephan battled through the first on 21 pitches and then reached 50 pitches before being pulled, tying for his shortest start of the year.
But, the Hogs swung their way back in it in the third when Bonfield skied a deep fly ball to centerfield for the sacrifice fly to score Jake Arledge, his 38th RBI of the year.
In the next at-bat, Gates mashed a two-run homer over the right field wall, tying the game at 3-3. For Gates, it was his third home run of the year and Arkansas’ first long ball of the series.
With the game tied and Stephan already taken out of the game, the Razorbacks needed strong innings out of their bullpen, and that started with Cannon Chadwick. The senior entered the game in the middle of the second inning and threw over four scoreless innings, his longest outing of his career.
He ran into trouble though in the sixth after hitting three batters to load the bases, but corralled two outs in the process.That’s when Arkansas coach Dave Van Horn decided to go to the bullpen and bring in the freshman Evan Lee. Lee faced Auburn’s lead-off batter Jonah Todd and got him to strike out swinging on four pitches, leaving the bases loaded and killing the Auburn rally.
Arkansas took its first lead of the series in the sixth by taking advantage of some control issues from Auburn pitcher Andrew Mitchell. The hurler walked the first three batters faced, giving Dominic Fletcher the opportunity to get a sacrifice fly. Fletcher did the job by sending a ball deep to right field, scoring Grant Koch and giving the Hogs the 4-3 lead. It was Fletcher’s only RBI of the game and the Hogs never lost the lead for the remainder of the game.
Lee only faced one batter in the seventh before Arkansas went to the bullpen again, bringing in Reindl. Reindl was masterful for the final three innings, striking out a career-high six and allowing only three baserunners the rest of the way.
Razorback Quotables
“This team has a lot of good chemistry and it’s genuine. They believed we could win and just kept fighting. Before you know it, it’s tied up. It just says that we’re pretty tough minded and they’ll fight to the end.” — Van Horn after his team’s bounce-back win
“The bullpen just mixed and matched today. When we brought (Evan) Lee in to face the lefty, we said ‘we need to find something out about him on the mound.’ We’ve been telling him this is his role and he came in and did the job.” — Van Horn on Evan Lee getting a key strikeout in the sixth
“Obviously, it was the biggest swing of the game. I thought Jake Arledge started that inning off and had a great at-bat. He took a full count, fouled off a pitch or two and got the walk. We got the sacrifice fly and then the big two-run homer. We definitely felt like the momentum was on our side of the diamond after that.” — Van Horn on Jared Gates’ game-tying home run
Up Next
Arkansas and Auburn will play the rubber match of this three-game series on Sunday at Plainsman Park. First pitch is slated for 3 p.m. and will be televised on the SEC Network.
Phil Elson will also be calling the game on the radio for the Razorback Sports Network.
Razorbacks set new 4×100 record at ‘McDonnell’ on Saturday
FAYETTEVILLE — Taking on cold conditions that featured a light mist throughout the day, Arkansas turned in a strong day on its home track at the John McDonnell Invitation Saturday, highlighted by a record-breaking performance in the 4-x-100 meter relay.
Record-Breaking Performance
The 4-x-100 meter squad of Daina Harper, Payton Stumbaugh, Taliyah Brooks and Kiara Parker were first on the track and got things started in a big way by setting a new program and meet record despite the conditions with a time of 43.75. That mark broke the school record of 43.84 set by the 2004 squad that included eight-time Olympic medalist Veronica Campbell-Brown and Olympic performer LaShauntea Moore. The 43.75 is currently good for eighth-best in the nation and third in the NCAA West Region.
What A Day
The anchor of Arkansas’ record-breaking 4-x-100 relay squad, sophomore Kiara Parker turned in a big day with wins in the 100 and 200-meter races. Parker posted a 100-meter time of the day at 11.32, good for ninth-best in the NCAA West Region. Parker has won the 100 in each of the three outdoor meets so far this season and has improved her time each time. Just over an hour later, Parker took the track in the 200 and produced a time of 23.39, which is currently firmly inside the NCAA West Region top 40.
Stumbaugh Sets Season-Best
Another member of the 4-x-100 squad, junior Payton Stumbaugh set a season-best with a time of 13.12 in the 100-meter hurdles. Stumbaugh’s time is currently tied for 11th nationally and sixth in the NCAA West Region.
Birch Makes Big Move
Entering the weekend 81st nationally in the 400-meter hurdles, sophomore Damajahnee Birch used a time of 57.79 to move up over 60 spots. Birch’s time was 2.30 seconds faster than her first run of the year in the 400 hurdles just two weeks ago at the Baylor Invitational. She now ranks 16th nationally and sixth in the NCAA West Region.
Notables
• Sophomore Tori Weeks won the pole vault for the first time in her outdoor career.
• Freshman Jada Baylark worked her way into the top 40 of the NCAA West Region in the 200 meters (11.54).
• Arkansas had five of the top six finishers in the 200 meters.
• Sophomore Ceara Watson was victorious in the 800 meters.
• Sophomore Sydney Brown and freshman Maddy Reed each set new personal bests in the 1,500 meters to finishing second and third, respectively, behind five-time NCAA champ Dominique Scott.
Up Next
Arkansas will return to action next weekend at the inaugural SEC Relays held at Bernie Moore Track Stadium on the campus of LSU.
John McDonnell Invitational
April 22, 2017
John McDonnell Field (Fayetteville, Arkansas)
100 Meters
1. Kiara Parker – 11.32
3. Jada Baylark – 11.54
7. Tamara Kuykendall – 12.01
11. Kaylee McCarthy – 12.70
200 Meters
1. Kiara Parker – 23.39
2. Daina Harper – 23.54
4. Jada Baylark – 23.78
5. Payton Stumbaugh – 23.80
6. Sunkietra McCallister – 23.99
8. Tamara Kuykendall – 24.53
11. Taliyah Brooks – 25.20
15. Kaylee McCarthy – 25.75
400 Meters
2. Sunkietra McCallister – 55.28
3. Alex Byrnes – 55.34
4. Sydney Hammit – 55.49
15. Jada Pollard – 1:00.48
800 Meters
1. Ceara Watson – 2:08.82
4. Kailee Sawyer – 2:11.66
13. Madison Cooley – 2:21.94
14. Autumn Sehy – 2:22.38
1,500 Meters
2. Sydney Brown – 4:22.12
3. Maddy Reed – 4:24.76
4. Abby Gray – 4:25.32
7. Regan Ward – 4:27.87
8. Valerie Reina – 4:38.63
3,000 Meters
1. Carina Viljoen – 9:32.86
2. Rachel Nichwitz – 9:49.20
3. Valerie Reina – 10:05.39
6. Grace Taylor – 10:22.85
100 Meter Hurdles
1. Payton Stumbaugh – 13.12
400 Meter Hurdles
1. Damajahnee Birch – 57.79
4-x-100 Meter Relay
1. Brooks, Stumbaugh, Harper, Parker – 43.75
4-x-400 Meter Relay
3. Parker, Hammit, McCallister, Byrnes – 3:44.12
High Jump
5. Carmen Sitz – 1.55m/5-1
Pole Vault
1. Tori Weeks – 4.05m/13-3 1/2
5. Rylee Robinson – 3.50m/11-5 3/4
6. Madeline Telford – 3.50m/11-5 3/4
Long Jump
1. Taliyah Brooks – 6.39m/20-11 3/4
Heptathlon
1. Kelsey Herman – 3,446 points
1. 100H – 13.75 (1,014)
1. High Jump – 5-8 (891)
2. Shot Put – 37-3 3/4 (619)
1. 200m = 24.62 (922)
2. Ashlee Moore – 3,166 points
2. 100H – 14.01 (977)
2. High Jump – 5-5 3/4 (818)
3. Shot Put – 36-5 1/2 (602)
2. 200m – 26.32 (769)
Running backs coach Michael Smith following Razorbacks’ drills
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Running backs coach Michael Smith on Brandon Martin and Jordan Jones working with the first team, Jared Cornelius’ status and more following practice Saturday.
Hogs make history in third round of SEC Championship with 12-under score
ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. — Arkansas made history Saturday in the third round of the SEC Championship, posting a 12-under 268 to record the team’s best round in the last 14 years and finish play at Sea Island Golf Club.
Not only did the Razorbacks rewrite their own record book with the best round in 14 years, but Arkansas also recorded the third best single-round score in the 53-year history of the SEC Championship. The Saturday 12-under 268 was three shots better than Vanderbilt for the best round of the day.
“I’m really proud of our guys for bouncing back with a great round today,” said head coach Brad McMakin. “We came out firing right out of the gates and played one of the best rounds in recent history. Hopefully we can carry this momentum into NCAA Regionals.”
Freshman Mason Overstreet played well beyond his years with a final round 4-under 66 to post his best round of the season and finish T-13th overall at even par for the championship. He made the turn and rolled in three consecutive birdies before closing the round with six straight pars.
Junior Alvaro Ortiz got things going early when he birdied five of the first seven holes and finished the day with a 5-under 65 and his best round of the year to finish T-43rd at 8-over.
Freshman Luis Garza signed for the only flawless card of the day with three birdies on the front side and two more on the back nine to finish with a bogey-free 5-under 65. He recorded a T-41st finish in his first SEC Championship.
Sophomore Charles Kim bogeyed his first hole of the day, but went on to shoot 1-under over the next 15 holes and finished with a 2-over 72 to finish T-53rd overall. Dylan Naidoo rounded out the team with a 9-over 79 to finish alone in 68th place.
Arkansas finished the tournament in 12th place at 19-over and missed the cut to match play by seven strokes.
The Razorbacks will learn their NCAA Regional destination Thursday, May 4 when the field is announced at noon CT on the Golf Channel.
For more information on Arkansas men’s golf, follow @RazorbackMGolf on Twitter.
Razorback Lineup Day 2 Results
T13. Mason Overstreet — 74-70-66-210 (E)
T41. Luis Garza — 80-72-65 — 217 (+7)
T43. Alvaro Ortiz — 75-78-65 — 218 (+8)
T53. Charles Kim — 72-77-72 — 221 (+11)
68. Dylan Naidoo — 78-73-79 — 230 (+20)
SEC Championship Day 2 Team Results
1. No. 4 Vanderbilt — 276-281-272 – 829 (-11)
2. No. 14 Texas A&M — 273-282-280 – 835 (-5)
3. No. 7 LSU — 278-284-275 – 837 (-3)
4. No. 6 Florida — 269-289-280 – 838 (-2)
5. No. 32 South Carolina — 283-286-289 – 845 (+9)
6. No. 37 Alabama — 275-288-288 – 847 (+11)
T7. No. 23 Ole Miss — 282-290-280 – 852 (+12)
T7. No. 26 Missouri — 284-279-289 – 852 (+12)
T9. No. 24 Georgia — 291-289-276 – 856 (+16)
T9. No. 20 Auburn — 278-287-291 – 856 (+16)
11. No. 39 Kentucky — 292-289-276 – 857 (+17)
12. No. 29 Arkansas — 299-292-268 – 859 (+19)
13. Tennessee — 301-294-279 – 874 (+34)
14. Mississippi State — 298-298-281 – 877 (+37)
Hogs’ offensive coordinator Dan Enos on last week’s scrimmage
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Dan Enos on last week’s scrimmage, the backup QB race, areas for Austin Allen to improve and more.
Auburn ends Razorbacks’ hot streak with 15-2 win to start series
AUBURN, Ala. — Auburn scored five runs in the first inning, eight in the third and two more in the fifth to run away with the opening game of the three-game series with Arkansas on Friday night at Plainsman Park, winning 15-2.
Razorback starting pitcher Blaine Knight struggled from the onset allowing five of his career-high eight earned runs in the opening inning. It all started with a Jay Estes RBI double down the left field line and then a two-run home run from Daniel Robert to make it 3-0. Three batters later, Josh Anthony singled to left to score two more for the Tigers.
Knight battled through 2.1 innings, his shortest outing of the season and struck out one, walking four. It’s his first loss in six outings and first in conference play. Knight had garnered the win in five-straight outings against SEC teams before Friday’s loss snapped that streak.
Before facing Auburn, Knight had five quality starts in a row, while striking out five or more batters each time, and he was one of two starting pitchers with a sub-2.00 ERA against league opponents.
At the plate, Arkansas managed nine hits in the game, four coming in the third inning, which was when the Hogs scored their only runs. Junior Luke Bonfield turned in a 2-for-5 game, his team-leading 17th multi-hit game of the year. Junior Chad Spanberger suffered an 0-for-5 night, snapping his career-long 12-game hitting streak.
Auburn got three more runs off Knight before Arkansas went to the bullpen, bringing in sophomore Weston Rogers. Rogers couldn’t do much on the mound, walking two batters in a row, which forced another pitching change.
Freshman Angus Denton entered the game in the middle of the third and finished the final 5.2 innings for the Hogs. Even though the Tigers scored five runs off the righty, Denton was able to save the Hogs bullpen for the remainder of the series, as his outing was his longest of the year and he finished with a season-high five strikeouts.
The Hogs tried to battle back in the third when they scored two runs on Carson Shaddy and Eric Cole singles to make it 5-2. However, the Razorbacks only notched three hits for the remainder of the game.
Auburn starting pitcher Keegan Thompson earned his fifth victory of the year after throwing six innings and striking out seven, while only allowing the two Arkansas runs.
Up Next
Arkansas and Auburn will face off in game two of this series starting at 1 p.m. Saturday at Plainsman Park. The game will be available on SEC Network+ and can be heard on the Razorback Sports Network.
Hogs add Goldwire to new women’s basketball staff
FAYETTEVILLE — Arkansas women’s basketball coach Mike Neighbors announced the addition of Lacey Goldwire as an assistant coach on Thursday.
Goldwire brings four years of recent postseason coaching experience to the bench for the Razorbacks.
“This is the first win as a Razorback for us,” Neighbors said. “Lacey provides us with an immediate impact performer in the Southeastern Conference before we ever play a game. She has matured from player to young coach into a recognized elite coach in a very short time frame. Lacey has accomplished that through her ability to connect with people and to form trusting relationships with them.
“Lacey will give our current student-athletes someone who has lived in their world as a player,” Neighbors continued. “She will give them someone who can relate to the day-to-day challenges each of our players face in the classroom and on the court. Lacey becoming a Razorback was a very important foundation building block and I’m looking forward to getting started.”
Goldwire comes to Fayetteville from Iowa City where she worked with the Hawkeyes wing players and served as the team’s recruiting coordinator. Goldwire’s first season at Iowa was the first of back-to-back trips to the NCAA Tournament. At 27-win season included a second round appearance in the Big Dance in 2013-14.
Iowa returned to the NCAA Tournament in 2014-15 and defeated 14th-seeded American (75-67) in the first round and 11th-seeded Miami (88-70) in the second round.
The victory secured a Sweet Sixteen berth at home on Mediacom Court in Carver-Hawkeye Arena. The Hawkeyes closed their season with a 26-8 record overall, a runner-up finish in Big Ten Conference play with a 14-4 mark, and a No. 11 national ranking in the USA Today Top 25 Coaches’ Poll — the highest for the program since 1995-96.
Iowa was one of 13 teams nationally to finish undefeated at home with an 18-0 mark, setting a program record for wins at home in a single season.
Goldwire and the Hawkeyes were one win shy of 20 in 2015-16 playing in the WNIT, but played to 20 wins in 2016-17 going deep into the WNIT bracket with victories over Missouri State, South Dakota and Colorado.
During her time in Iowa, Goldwire worked with consensus All-America selection Samantha Logic whose honors also included being named a WBCA Division I Coaches All-American, USBWA All-American, ESPN Second Team All-American, and Third Team Associated Press All-American. Logic was the only player in NCAA history to accumulate at least 1,500 career points, 800 rebounds, 800 assists, and 200 steals — and was one of 12 players in the country to be invited to attend the 2015 WNBA Draft where she was selected with the 10th overall pick.
Goldwire spent the 2012-13 season as an assistant coach at Morehead State. Prior to joining the Eagles’ staff, Goldwire served on the Oklahoma State staff for four seasons — two as a student assistant and two as a graduate assistant.
Following Oklahoma State’s tragic loss of its head and assistant coach during a plane crash in November of 2011, Goldwire was elevated to interim assistant coach where she took on added recruiting duties.
During her time with the program, the Cowgirls won 80 games and advanced to the postseason all four years, winning the 2012 WNIT championship.
Goldwire, an Oklahoma City native, played collegiately at East Central (Okla.) University where she ranked fifth in career scoring with 1,340 points. She averaged 21.1 points and 5.9 rebounds as a senior and was tabbed Lone Star Conference North co-Player of the Year and Second-Team All-South Central Region.
She also earned ECU’s Athlete of the Year honor in 2007-08. She was named honorable mention All-LSC following her sophomore and junior campaigns.
Goldwire, an all-state and all-city player at Del City (Okla.) High School, graduated from Oklahoma State with a bachelor of science in education and a master’s degree in teaching, learning and leadership in 2010.
Hogs one-hit Memphis; Spanberger homer enough in 2-0 win
NORTH LITTLE ROCK — A two-run blast by Chad Spanberger and a stellar start by sophomore Kacey Murphy on the mound led the 14th-ranked Razorbacks to a 2-0 victory over Memphis on Wednesday night at Dickey-Stephens Park.
One night after plating 16 runs against the Tigers, the Razorbacks only needed the two off Spanberger’s fifth inning home run to finish the midweek sweep in front of 8.974 fans. Six hits were totaled in the game by the Hogs, two each by Spanberger and sophomore Jax Biggers.
The win ups Arkansas’ record to 31-8 for the season, and drops Memphis to 21-17. It’s the sixth win in a row for the Hogs as they go into their weekend series at Auburn and 11th-straight during midweek games.
Spanberger extended his career-long hitting streak to 12 games with the two-hit performance, the second-longest streak on the team this season. The home run was his ninth of the year, tying catcher Grant Koch for the team lead.
On the flip side, Murphy held Memphis hitless until the seventh inning and only walked one batter in the fourth. The lone hit came on a bunt single by Chris Carrier with one out, but he was picked off in the next at-bat to complete the seventh scoreless frame for Murphy.
Murphy finished with seven innings pitched and seven strikeouts. The inning total is a career-high and the strikeouts are the third most in a game this year.
Redshirt senior Josh Alberius came in to pitch the eighth and ninth innings, needing only 15 pitches to get the final six outs and his second save of the year.
The combined one-hitter is the first for a Razorback team since Colin Poche’ and Cade Lynch achieved the feat over seven innings against New Orleans on February 19, 2013.
Moments That Mattered
Murphy retired the first 11 batters he faced before giving up a walk to Carrier in the fourth inning. During those first 3.2 innings, Murphy had already recorded four strikeouts and just three balls hit to the outfield.
In the bottom half of the first and second innings, Arkansas stranded two runners on base each time, just missing the timely hit needed to take the early lead. Spanberger got his first hit of the night on a single to right field in the first inning, extending his hit streak, and then reached second on a Jared Gates hit by pitch. However, the Hogs couldn’t punch in the run.
Three more innings rolled by with only three runners reaching base combined between the two teams. Arkansas finally got what it needed with a lead-off single by Biggers in the fifth, his second hit of the night. Two batters later, Spanberger hit one of the longer home runs of the year into the right field berm of Dickey-Stephens Park, giving the Hogs the 2-0 lead and sending the fans into a frenzy.
Neither team make a change on the mound until the seventh when Memphis brought in Blake Bennett to replace starter Alex Hicks. Hicks finished with six innings pitched and six hits scattered to go along with the two earned runs off the homer. Even after getting to the Tiger bullpen, Arkansas did not manage a hit over the final two innings.
Murphy did have a no-hitter into the seventh inning and got the first out of the frame by striking out Brandon Grudzielanek. Unfortunately, Carrier, who he had walked earlier in the game, reached base for a second time on a well-placed bunt to the right of the bullpen and beat out the throw from Gates for Memphis’ first hit.
Once Alberius entered the game in the eighth, the Little Rock, Arkansas native made quick work of the Tigers and struck out the final batter to end the game.
Razorback Quotables
“For a midweek ballgame and have (Kacey) Murphy come out and give us seven strong innings, it kept us in the ballgame against one of their better pitchers. He gave us a chance to win and we had enough offense to win the game. I think Murphy gained a lot of experience and confidence with this. Overall, it was a good night for us.” – Head coach Dave Van Horn on the pitching performance from Kacey Murphy
“We couldn’t tell where it ended up, I just knew when it left the bat, I said ‘It’s 2-0.’ I didn’t even watch it. When (Chad Spanberger) hits them, they usually go a long way. When he mishits them, sometimes they have a chance to get out. That was a big swing for us.” – Head coach Dave Van Horn on Chad Spanberger’s home run
“You never really expect something like that. Coach (Wes) Johnson has us execute one pitch at a time and that’s what happened.” – Kacey Murphy on his outing
Up Next
Arkansas heads to Auburn, Alabama to face a top-10 Auburn Tiger team for a three-game series starting on Friday at 6 p.m. The series will run through Saturday and Sunday with game times slated for 1 and 3 p.m., respectively. Sunday’s game is scheduled to be broadcast on the SEC Network.
Big inning lets Arkansas pull away from Louisiana-Monroe for win
FAYETTEVILLE — Tied with Louisiana-Monroe through three innings, Arkansas used a five-run, two-out scoring surge in the fourth to pull away in a 9-3 win Wednesday evening at Bogle Park.
The bottom of the lineup featuring Shelby Hiers, Madison Yannetti and Parker Pocklington combined for three hits, five RBI and five runs scored. Yannetti and Tori Cooper each hit a home run in the win while freshman Autumn Storms picked up her 13th victory in the circle.
Cooper opened the scoring with a solo shot in the bottom of the first, her seventh home run of the season.
ULM (28-18) tied the game in the top of the second with an unearned run off starter Caroline Hedgcock but Yannetti pushed the Razorbacks ahead on the scoreboard with a two-run big fly to left field, another two-run blow.
With Wednesday’s effort, Arkansas pushed its season total to 44 home runs.
The visitors took advantage of a fielding error in the top of the third to score two more runs and tie the game at 3-all.
Storms entered the game with one down in the third and got out of the jam with a couple of ground balls. The Temecula, Calif., native worked the final 4.2 innings of the game, allowing just two hits and striking out three ULM hitters.
Storms worked out of a two-on, two-out spot in the seventh, getting a liner to Loren Krzysko in center field to end the game.
ULM starter Melanie Coyne looked to be heading toward an easy fourth inning, recording the first two outs with fly balls.
But Nicole Schroeder singled up the middle, and the Razorbacks had runners on second and third after a Hiers’ double. Yannetti drew a walk to load the bases, and Pocklington delivered with a two-run base knock through the left side.
Autumn Russell plated two more runs with a hit up the middle, and came around to score a run of her own on a double by Krzysko.
Arkansas (27-16) added its ninth run in the fifth on an RBI groundout off the bat of Hiers.
The senior catcher stepped to the plate with runners on second and third after a walk to A.J. Belans and double by Schroeder.
Pinch runner Betina Beringhele scored the final run on the ground ball. Wednesday’s game was the Razorbacks’ largest offensive output since March 7.
Up Next
Arkansas returns to SEC play with a weekend road trip to face Mississippi State, beginning Saturday in Starkville.
All three games will be televised on the SEC Network and streamed live through the WatchESPN app.
The Razorbacks return home May 5-7 to host Georgia in the regular-season finale for both teams.
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