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Razorbacks expect great upcoming season with Connor Noland
By Nate Allen FAYETTEVILLE – Sharing 2-sport Greenwood state high school champion pitcher-quarterback Connor Noland with Arkansas Razorbacks football worked great for Razorbacks baseball coach Dave Van Horn. It works even better, Van Horn admitted at his Monday season wrapup press conference, that after a 2018-2019 UA freshman year playing both sports, Noland recently announced he’s pared his dedication to baseball. A pitcher-quarterback can accomplish both, Razorbacks tight ends coach Barry Lunney lettered in the…
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Connor Noland announces plan to Concentrate on Baseball
By Nate Allen FAYETTEVILLE – After his freshman year at the University of Arkansas following the dual sport football quarterback/baseball pitching days off his state championship seasons at Greenwood High School, Connor Noland said he’ll start his UA sophomore campaign strictly pitching for Coach Dave Van Horn’s baseball Razorbacks. Noland announced Thursday on Twitter his intentions to forsake playing football for Coach Chad Morris’ Razorbacks and concentrate solely on baseball after being the No. 2…
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Hogs lose to Texas Tech
By Nate Allen FAYETTEVILLE – Arkansas led 3-0, trailed, 4-3, tied it 4-4 then lost 5-4 its topsy-turvy College World Series loser’s bracket game to the Texas Tech Raiders Monday afternoon at TD Ameritrade Park in Omaha, Neb. Monday’s loss, coupled with Arkansas’ 1-0 CWS first-round loss Saturday night to the Florida State Seminoles, ends the season at 46-20 for Coach Dave Van Horn’s SEC West co-champion Razorbacks making Arkansas’ first back to back…
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Four Razorbacks Honored by D1 Baseball, Perfect Game
Contributed by John Thomas FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – As the start of the 2019 College World Series approaches, four Razorbacks were recognized by D1 Baseball and Perfect Game on the publication’s All-America squads. Isaiah Campbell picked up second team honors from both outlets, while Matt Cronin received third team accolades from D1 Baseball and was an honorable mention selection by Perfect Game, bringing both of their All-America totals to five this season. Additionally, Jack Kenley earned third…
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Hogs Omaha Bound – Arkansas vs. Ole Miss
By Nate Allen FAYETTEVILLE – Dave Van Horn’s quick hook, Cody Scroggins’ arm and an Arkansas batting barrage rocketed the Razorbacks 14-1 by the Ole Miss Rebels in Monday’s winner-take-all Super Regional final before 10,093 ticket scanned and total paid 11,095 at Baum-Walker Stadium and this weekend on to Omaha and the College World Series. It marks the 10th College World Series in University of Arkansas history, the fifth under Van Horn’s coaching, and following…
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Rebels Rout Hogs – Arkansas vs. Ole Miss
By Nate Allen FAYETTEVILLE – So far the visiting team hitting a first-inning home run ultimately spells defeat for the visitor in this best 2 of 3 baseball Super Regional between Arkansas and Ole Miss knotted one game each at Baum-Walker Stadium. With Ole Miss storming back 13-5 Sunday after Arkansas won, 11-2 Saturday, the Super Regional is set to conclude in today’s 3 p.m winner take all game on ESPN2 at Baum-Walker Stadium. Today’s…
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Arkansas vs. Ole Miss Saturday regional gamer
By Nate Allen FAYETTEVILLE – Whatever “number” that Arkansas Coach Dave Van Horn said the Ole Miss Rebels had beating Arkansas 10 of their last 14 meetings since 2016, the Rebels didn’t have Saturday past their second batter of the first inning. For after Grae Kessinger’s solo home run, the Razorbacks scored 11 before Thomas Dillard’s ninth inning Ole Miss solo home run, and achieved an 11-2 Arkansas victory in Saturday’s first game of the…
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Arkansas vs. Ole Miss advance leading with Casey Opitz
By Nate Allen FAYETTEVILLE – If familiarity breeds contempt, then the Arkansas Razorbacks and Ole Miss Rebels ought totally to disregard the other. But they can’t. Because unlike their previous five games for 2019 with Arkansas sharing the SEC West co-championship with Mississippi State but losing twice to Ole Miss in the March 3-game SEC series at Baum-Walker Stadium and each beating the other in two SEC games last month in Hoover, Ala., the winner…
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Hogs win Delayed Regional
By Nate Allen FAYETTEVILLE – Super pitching Sunday night following super pitching Saturday night consecutively pitched the Arkansas Razorbacks past TCU to win the Fayetteville Regional 4-team double-elimination championship at Baum-Walker Stadium and on to host a best 2 out of 3 Super Regional against the Ole Miss Rebels next weekend at Baum-Walker. Fellow SEC West member Ole Miss, winner of the Oxford Regional it hosted, and Arkansas, 44-17, and the SEC West co-champion with…
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Fayetteville Regional All-Tournament team
By Nate Allen FAYETTEVILLE – Isaiah Campbell’s 4-hitter through eight innings of his 3-1 winner’s bracket final triumph over TCU earned the Arkansas Razorbacks junior right-handed pitcher the MVP of the Fayetteville Regional as voted upon by media with Arkansas winning the tournament 6-0 over TCU Sunday night at Baum-Walker Stadium. Campbell was one of seven Razorbacks voted MVP of the 4-team double-elimination tourney which included Central Connecticut State, beaten, 11-5 Friday by Arkansas, and…
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Arkansas vs TCU
By Nate Allen FAYETTEVILLE – Arkansas ace righty Isaiah Campbell and TCU ace lefty Nick Lodolo both pitched superbly. But Campbell also pitched efficiently. Campbell’s 4-hit, eight strikeouts vs one walk efficiency kept him in the game through eight innings and 108 pitches while Lodolo’s high pitch count ousted him from a 0-0 game before Arkansas scored three sixth-inning runs for an eventual 3-1 Fayetteville Regional winner’s bracket victory before a 10,614 packed house Saturday…
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Arkansas vs Central Connecticut
By Nate Allen FAYETTEVILLE – Arkansas hardly could have been more on pitching off. Saving ace right-hander Isaiah Campbell for what will be tonight’s 6 o’clock winner’s bracket game against the third-seeded TCU Horned Frogs and TCU ace lefty Nick Lodolo, the top-seeded Razorbacks beat,11-5 the fourth-seeded Northeast Conference Tournament champion Central Connecticut State Blue Devils in Friday afternoon’s first round game of the 4-team double-elimination Fayetteville Regional before a paid 10,037 with 9,858…
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