Hogs down Horns
Hogs down Horns as the Arkansas pitching staff, led by Gage Wood’s career-high nine punchouts, combined for 15 strikeouts and overpowered the Longhorn offense in baseball for the second night in a row to lead No. 11 Arkansas (39-9, 16-7 SEC) to a 6-1 series-clinching win against No. 1 Texas (38-7, 19-4 SEC) Friday night at Baum-Walker Stadium.
The Razorbacks secured their first weekend series against win the Longhorns since 1989 when the two teams were Southwest Conference foes. With a win in tomorrow’s series finale to clinch a weekend series sweep, Arkansas, now 16-7 through 23 games of SEC play, can match its best 24-game SEC start (17-7) for the sixth time in program history.
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