No. 5 Arkansas has struggled at the plate this season and Saturday night was no different, but thanks to Kuhio Aloy the Hogs had enough to down No. 22 TCU 2-1 in the Amegy Bank College Baseball Series in Arlington's Globe Life Field.

Arkansas (5-1) was defeated by Kansas State 3-2 on Friday night. On Saturday with the Horned Frogs holding a 1-0 lead in the top of the seventh that is when Kuhio Aloy, who didn't start, came through. Aloy’s two-run double in the seventh inning proved to the game-winning blow before 17,994 fans. Dave Van Horn was pleased his team could bounce back from Friday's loss.

“It was a good game,” Van Horn said. “…It’s like I told our team, first of all it feels great, but we did four or five things wrong last night, little things, and that kept us from probably winning the game. But tonight we did everything right.”

Zach Root got the start and pitched well. Root pitched five innings. He allowed only two hits, one run, two walks and struck out 10. Landon Beidelschies (2-0) worked 2.2 innings and earned the win. He allowed just one hit and walked a hitter. Christian Foutch got his five save of the season working 1.1 innings, allowing one hit, two walks and struck out a hitter.

Kuhio Aloy leads the Razorbacks hitting .417. He has started three games and hit a home run in each of them.

“He’s a pretty good hitter,” Van Horn said. “I know he swings hard. We kind of knew exactly what was going to happen. If we make this move, they are going to make that move and he is going to end up hitting off a right hander.

“…I just told him that this right hander throws off speed and I don’t even know if that is what he got that first pitch. But it was up and in and he hammered it. Obviously yesterday he hit a ball about as hard as you can at any level – 117 miles per hour plus.”

The rally came after a tremendous catch by Arkansas left fielder Charles Davalan, who robbed a home run away from TCU’s Karson Bowen for the final out of the sixth inning.

“When it was hit, we thought it was probably going to get out,” Van Horn said. “I don’t know it he robbed it or just kept it close. I don’t know if he could get up that high, but it was a great play.”

Van Horn also had praise for Root though he didn't get a decision.

“I thought he was amazing,” Van Horn said. “His misses were really close and he really battled in the fourth inning. It was amazing to me that he walked a batter, hit a batter and made an error and ended up giving up just one run.

“That showed how tough he is and how good he is and then he came out in the fifth and had a great inning – 1-2-3. We could have brought him back in the sixth. I think he was at 80 pitches, but I told (Arkansas pitching) Coach (Matt Hobbs) that ‘we are going to need that inning down the line. Let’s go get somebody else.’ It worked out, but he was really good.”

Arkansas will finish up the weekend on Sunday with an 11 a.m. game against Michigan (4-2), who Kansas State beat 5-1 earlier Saturday.

“Michigan has a good team, an athletic team that can do some things,” Van Horn said. “They have run into some tough luck here. They played TCU great for five or six innings yesterday, but then they gave up a four-run inning and a couple of home runs.”