Arkansas advance to Super Regionals

FAYETTEVILLE, Arkansas – The Arkansas Razorbacks (46-13) punched their ticket to the super regional round with an 8-3 win against Creighton (43-16) Sunday night at Baum-Walker Stadium in the NCAA Fayetteville Regional title game.

The Hogs set a baseball program record with their 35th home win of the season.

Arkansas will nowl host the super regional set to begin either Friday or Saturday against the winner of Monday’s NCAA Knoxville Regional title game between Tennessee (45-17) and Wake Forest (39-21).

The Arkansas Razorbacks will make their 11th super regional appearance in program history as well as host inside the friendly confines of Baum-Walker Stadium for the sixth time overall and fourth time since 2018.

With top seed Vanderbilt and No. 2 seed Texas eliminated, No. 3 seed Arkansas is the highest-seeded team to advance to the super regional round.

Pitching was the story of the night as Arkansas was powered by superb performances on the mound by starter Gage Wood and Gabe Gaeckle, who combined for 20 strikeouts and limited Creighton to five hits and zero walks. Wood struck out a career-high 13 batters in his six innings of three-run ball, while Gaeckle fanned seven over three shutout innings.

The Razorback offense, meanwhile, continued to hammer the ball, belting four home runs in Sunday night’s win. Logan Maxwell hit a two-run homer in the first, Justin Thomas Jr. jacked a three-run homer in the second and Ryder Helfrick swatted a solo homer in the third before Maxwell connected on a solo shot, his second of the night, in the fifth inning.

Charles Davalan was responsible for Arkansas’ lone non-home run RBI in the sixth, ripping a two-out triple to left center to give the Hogs their eighth and final run of the night. Creighton scored its only runs of the ballgame on a three-run homer against Wood in the fourth, but Arkansas would never cough up its lead and cruised to a convincing 8-3 win.

Offensively, Maxwell led the way with his two-homer, three-RBI performance at the plate and raised his season slash line to .346/.451/.596. Helfrick, named the NCAA Fayetteville Regional MVP, blasted his third home run in two days.

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