Razorbacks sweep Bulldogs in weekend series

For the fifth straight year the annual Arkansas Razorbacks vs. Mississippi State Bulldogs 3game SEC West baseball series ended in a sweep.

Only this time the visiting team did the sweeping.

Sunday in Starkville, Miss. at State’s Dudy Noble Field, Coach Dave Van Horn’s Razorbacks prevailed, 6-4 completing a sweep that began with Friday night’s 8-2 Arkansas victory and continued with Arkansas winning, 11-5 Saturday.

It not only broke the 4-year run of the home team sweeping this SEC West series that began in 1992 but marked just the second time, it happened in 2010, the Hogs have swept in Starkville.

Coupled with winning the last two of the previous weekend’s 3game SEC West series with Alabama at Baum-Walker Stadium and two midweek nonconference victories at Baum-Walker over the Memphis Tigers, the Razorbacks bring 193 overall and 5-1 SEC records back to Baum-Walker for a 6:30 p.m. Tuesday nonconference game with the University of Central Arkansas Bears and a 6:30 p.m., 6:30. p.m., 2 p.m. Thursday through Saturday SEC West series vs. the Auburn Tigers.

“It means a lot,” Arkansas freshman reliever Jaxon Wiggins said on Sunday’s radio postgame of sweeping after recording a 2inning save. We knew it wasn’t going to be easy coming in. We just had to play our game. I think we’re hitting the ball way better than we were. Our pitching is unbelievable. Just allaround a great team to be around.”

Designated hitter Matt Goodheart, hitting a home run for four consecutive games starting with last Wednesday’s 94 victory over Memphis, started Sunday’s scoring homering in Arkansas’ 5-run fourth inning.