Arkansas Baseball takes on Louisiana Monroe.

FAYETTEVILLE - Arkansas Razorbacks freshman starter Caleb Bolden threw a career long seven shutout innings, freshman left fielder Heston Kjerstad hit a measured 430-foot home run over the 25-foot tall Baum Stadium scoreboard into the back of the pond beyond the right-center field fence, and the Razorbacks played errorless defense in defeating the University of Louisiana-Monroe Warhawks 4-0 in Wednesday afternoon’s finale of a two-game non-conference series.

The 2,056 attending Wednesday afternoon witnessed a nearly infinitely cleaner game than the 1,689 saw in Tuesday night’s windy 40-degree chill at Baum when Arkansas survived four errors and blowing an 8-4 lead in the ninth to trail 9-8 after ULM batted in the 10th before scoring two in its 10th winning 10-9 on ULM’s bases-loaded throwing error.

“Baseball - it’s just kind of the way it works sometimes,” Arkansas coach Dave Van Horn said of Wednesday’s clean game coming off Tuesday’s troubles.

It started with Bolden scattering seven hits without a walk while striking out through seven complete with Arkansas turning two doubleplays, one ending an inning after the Warhawks had runners at first and third.

“I think it starts that the pitcher is throwing a lot of strikes and guys are into it,” Van Horn said.

“The weather (Wednesday) was good. They weren't cold. And the wind wasn’t blowing real hard. It was tough fielding the ball last night.”

With Auburn in town for three games Friday through Sunday and five Razorbacks pitchers used Tuesday, Van Horn was elated to get seven complete from Bolden and a two-inning shutout finish by Cody Scroggins.

“Really good job by Caleb Bolden,” Van Horn said. “We were hoping to get four, maybe five out of him and then kind of go from there.

“But he kind of got it rolling and gave us the sixth and seventh.

“He got a couple of big doubleplay balls, one I think with runners at first and third and one out and got the other one maybe first and second and one out and got himself out of a couple of jams by locating a couple of sinkers and fast balls and that gave him an opportunity to stay in the game and kept his pitch count down a little bit.”

Kjerstad sent his home run into orbit over the scoreboard leading off Arkansas’ two-run third inning off losing ULM starter Richard Hebert.

It was his eighth home run and his longest as a Hog.

“I knew I squared it up, and off the bat I could tell it was going out,” Kjerstad said. “But I surprised myself a little bit on how far it went once I saw it clear the scoreboard.”

Arkansas added another in the third.

Dominic Fletcher walked, advanced to third via a wild pitch after Evan Lee’s infield hit, and scored while Grant Koch grounded out to second.

Three singles, with help from a run-scoring wild pitch, added up to two runs off reliever Derek Martin in the sixth.