Game 5: Arkansas 4 Oral Roberts 3
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The Oral Roberts baseball team had 11th-ranked Arkansas on the ropes Sunday afternoon before the top seed rallied back for a 4-3 victory in an elimination game in the NCAA Fayetteville Regional at Baum Stadium.
The Golden Eagles put up a three-run bottom of the fourth as Noah Cummings and Brent Williams launched consecutive pitches for back-to-back home runs. Sam Grellner followed with a RBI single as the “home” team in the contest silenced the near-capacity crowd, but the Razorbacks responded by matching with three runs in the fifth. Arkansas’ home run leader, Chad Spanberger, broke the 3-3 deadlock in the seventh hitting a solo shot into right.
Game 6: Arkansas 11 Missouri State 10
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — With six hours in between the first pitch and the last pitch of Sunday’s regional final between No. 11 Arkansas and No. 21 Missouri State among numerous lead changes and weather delays, it was the Razorbacks that came out on top, 11-10, to force a regional-deciding game on Monday at Baum Stadium.
Just before 3 a.m., sophomore Jared Gates provided the exclamation point in the eighth inning with his two-run home run that sent the remaining Arkansas fans to its loudest decibel of the night. Arkansas had taken the lead earlier in the inning on an RBI groundout by Jax Biggers and then a wild pitch that scored Dominic Fletcher.
