Razorback Power Comes Alive In Second Game Against McNeese State
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Arkansas picked up game two of the doubleheader over the McNeese State 11-1 thanks to four homers.
Despite winning 3-1 in the first leg, the Razorbacks managed just four runs in the first 13 innings of the doubleheader without a homer. With two on and two out in the bottom of the fifth, Wehiwa Aloy smacked the second-longest homer hit by a Razorback since 2022, a 468-foot shot to turn a 2-0 game into a 5-0 lead (Jared Wegner, 470 feet, March 19, 2023, vs. Auburn).
Peyton Stovall, on his first day back from a broken foot, applied the finishing touches with a three-run homer down the right-field line in the eighth.
Kendall Diggs followed with a solo homer of his own to run-rule the Cowboys in eight innings.
The Razorbacks opened the scoring the same way they've been getting most of their runs of late, manufacturing runs. A single and stolen base set up Aloy to hit an RBI single off the wall in left.
Starter Brady Tygart struggled with command and worked around traffic in his four innings of work, but managed to keep the Cowboys off the scoreboard with some fortuitous luck. The Hernando, Miss. native stranded the bases loaded in both the second and the fourth. A grounder off the bat of leadoff man Connor Westenburg hit the runner at first base, Gage Trahan, in the foot, immediately retiring the side. Parker Coil took over in the fifth with Tygart's season ERA at 0.90.
Arkansas' offense continued to labor through the order only managing one runner in scoring position the next three innings. The Hogs couldn't do anything with a two-out double by Diggs.
Jayson Jones reclaimed the sole lead for homers with a 409-foot shot to dead center leading off the fifth to double the lead to 2-0 before Aloy put that to shame with a monster shot to open the game up.
The Cowboys got a run back in the top of the sixth with three straight singles to open the inning, but Koty Frank relieved Coil and avoided further damage. Frank got the final eight outs of the game and picked up his third save of the season.
The series concludes 1 p.m. Sunday against McNeese State. The game will be streamed on SEC Network+.
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