Second baseman Robert Moore hit for the cycle, shortstop Jalen Battles launched a pair of home runs and the Arkansas Razorbacks powered past instate foe Central Arkansas, 21-8, in a midweek tilt from Baum-Walker Stadium Tuesday night. It was the first meeting between the two programs.
The bats were red hot for the Hogs throughout. Arkansas hit five home runs and pounded out 21 hits during the offensive onslaught. Moore, who is the first Razorback to hit for the cycle since Kyle Harris versus Tennessee in 1994, drove in six runs, Battles drove in four and the Hogs also got home runs from Charlie Welch and Dylan Leach on the night.
The game was tight through three innings, but Arkansas scored seven runs in the fourth and sixth innings to open things up and run away from the Bears. Kole Ramage, who got the start for the Hogs, went four innings, allowing three runs on five hits.
Caleb Bolden and Elijah Trest had rough outings from the pen, but Evan Gray, Evan Taylor and Gabriel Starks threw scoreless frames in the final three innings to seal the win for the Razorbacks, who improve to 20-3 on the season.
RUNDOWN
Kole Ramage earned the midweek nod for the Razorbacks and probably didn't get off to the start he had hoped. UCA's leadoff man Connor Emmet launched a solo home run to give the Bears an early, 1-0, lead.
UCA starter Tate Busey walked the bases loaded to start the bottom of the first and was pulled without recording an out. Dillan Janak took over the pitching duties for the Bears and largely got them out of the jam. Robert Moore scored on a sacrifice fly to tie the game, 1-1, and then Janak got Franklin to ground into a 5-4-3 double play to end the inning.
The Bears regained the lead, 2-1, in the top of the second after a leadoff single by AJ Mendolia turned into him scoring a run after a throwing error on a bunt and pair of ground balls pushed him home.
Arkansas put together a two-out rally in the bottom of the second. Zack Gregory singled, Dylan Leach doubled and Robert Moore scored them both with a two-run triple to give the Razorbacks a 3-2 lead.
Ramage walked the leadoff man to start the third inning. He recorded outs on the next two at-bats but allowed back-to-back base hits to Ayala and Mendolia, which tied the game, 3-3.
Charlie Welch put Arkansas back on top, 4-3, with a solo blast to leadoff the bottom of the third. The Hogs tacked on two more later in the inning when Jalen Battles launched a two-run shot to make it 6-3.
Ramage settled down and put up his first scoreless frame in the top of the fourth. Arkansas unloaded in the bottom of the inning. Dylan Leach launched a solo home run, Welch laced an RBI single, Brady Slavens drove in two with a knock and Franklin doubled him home to push Arkansas' lead to 11-3 with nobody out.
UCA finally recorded an out, but Battles belted his second home run of the game, making the score 13-3 in favor of the Razorbacks as the game moved on to the fifth inning.
Caleb Bolden took over the pitching duties for Arkansas in the fifth. He induced a ground ball out to start the inning but walked one and hit back-to-back batters to load the bases with one out. A sacrifice fly by Mendolia scored one.
Another walk reloaded the bases with two outs, and Van Horn turned to Elijah Trest out of the pen. The first batter he faced, Kolby Johnson, cleared the bases with a double to cut UCA's deficit to 13-7.
Arkansas got a run back in the bottom of the fifth on a solo blast by Moore, the fifth home run of the night for the Hogs, to make the score 14-7. In the top of the sixth, the Bears scratched one across when Mendolia drove in his third run of the game on a base hit to centerfield, 14-8.
The Razorbacks loaded the bases with no outs in the bottom half of the sixth and unloaded on the Bears once again. Two runs scored via the free pass, Moore doubled in another trifecta of runs and Goodheart drove him in. Suddenly, the Razorbacks had built a 21-8 advantage. Moore's two-bagger completed the cycle for the talented second baseman in just six innings of play.
Evan Gray and Evan Taylor put up zeroes for Arkansas in the seventh and eighth innings, and Gabriel Starks got the call to the mound for the Razorbacks in the ninth. The freshman righty retired the side in order, with two coming via strikeout, to seal the 21-8 midweek win over instate foe UCA.
UP NEXT
The Razorbacks will host Auburn for an SEC weekend series starting Thursday, April 1 in Fayetteville. First pitch for Game 1 between the Hogs and Tigers from Baum-Walker Stadium is set for 6:30 p.m. (CST)
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