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Location: WholeHogSports > Story     |     TAGGED: baseball (2)

Slumping Diamond Hogs thumped at home by ORU

Published: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 PRINT E-MAIL

Unfor tunately for the Razorbacks, it seems they picked up Tuesday night nonconference losing 9-4 against Oral Roberts University where they left off Sunday afternoon losing 12-10 to SEC West rival Auburn.

Both losses were at Baum Stadium giving coach Dave Van Horn's Hogs (17-14, 3-7 ) no happy home sendoff for this weekend's three-game SEC series at Florida.

In dropping two of three last weekend to Auburn, Arkansas last Sunday lost an 8-2 eighth-inning lead to lose in 10 innings.

On a cold Tuesday night before a beleaguered 1, 034, the Razorbacks had only one brief 2-1 lead in the second before the Summit Conference-leading Golden Eagles, 21-7 overall, flew away with 3-run fifth and sixth innings.

They had tied it 2-2 on David Genao's fourth-inning RBI single. Genao tallied ORU's first run on a secondinning sacrifice fly. He also doubled in an ORU run in the fifth after Razorback second baseman Ben Tschepikow and shortstop Tim Smalling each waited on the other to field Pat Murray's two-out grounder. It rolled uncontested up the middle and had to be scored an RBI single.

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" We didn't make the play up the middle and it cost us a run and the next guy gets a hit, " Van Horn said. " A communication mistake on a seeing-eye single. You've got two older guys that have been here. That was probably the most disappointing part of the game for us. Instead of going to the dugout down one run, we go in the dugout down three. "

Stranding 11 runners didn't help nor did three Razorback pitchers - Sam Murphy, Evan Cox and Brett Eibner - collectively yielding 14 hits and eight walks.

" We had guys on base and we just needed the hit and never got it, " Van Horn said. " That's the way it is. We didn't get it done. Nothing I can elaborate on. "

Van Horn did cite a positive to seeing slumping Razorback first baseman Aaron Murphree go 3 for 4, his first multi-hit game since March 11.

Ryan Groth's sacrifice fly started ORU's fifth-inning scoring off Murphy, the losing Razorback starter.

Brian Van Kirk's 2-run home run after Ben Petralli's RBI double netted ORU's 3-run sixth off Cox.

ORU added an unearned run in the eighth off Eibner who moved from center field to the mound.

Arkansas had scored two in the second on Eibner's solo home run and Jacob House scoring on a wild throw by third baseman Genao.

The Hogs didn't tally again until the seventh. Logan Forsythe swatted a 1-out bases-loaded sacrifice fly so deep to center that everyone tagged up a base. Jeff Nutt walked but got stranded with the rest as Eibner struck out.

Arkansas netted a run while ORU lost coach Rob Walton in the eighth. Walton was ejected disputing the balk that brought home Jacob House from third.

Van Horn said he's changing the pitching rotation against Florida moving Dallas Keuchel to the Friday night start followed by Justin Wells Saturday and Cliff Springston, normally the Friday starter, on Sunday.

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Updated December 01

1. Alabama 12-0

2. Florida 11-1

3. Texas 11-1

4. Oklahoma 11-1

5. USC 10-1

6. Penn State 11-1

7. Utah 12-0

8. Texas Tech 11-1

9. Boise State 12-0

10. Ohio State 10-2

11. TCU 10-2

12. Ball State 12-0

13. Cincinnati 10-2

14. Oklahoma State 9-3

15. Georgia Tech 9-3

16. Oregon 9-3

17. Georgia 9-3

18. Boston College 9-3

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22. Mississippi 8-4

23. Pittsburgh 8-3

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Arkansas Razorbacks' 2008 Basketball Schedule

Nov. 3

Campbellsville University (exh)

W 103-58

Nov. 6

Dillard University (exh)

W 108-80

Nov. 14

Southeastern Louisiana

W 91-87

Nov. 20

California-Davis

W 68-59

Nov. 22

@ Missouri St.

L 57-62

Nov. 26

@ South Alabama

W 79-77

Nov. 29

Florida A&M

W 86-61

Dec. 3

Texas Southern

     7:05 pm

Dec. 10

North Carolina Central

     7:05 pm

Dec. 17

Austin Peay

     7:05 pm

Dec. 19

Austin Peay vs. Stephen F. Austin

     7:05 pm

Dec. 20

Stephen F. Austin

     7:05 pm

Dec. 27

Northwestern St.

     5:05 pm

Dec. 30

Oklahoma

     7:05 pm

Jan. 3

North Texas

     2:05 pm

Jan. 6

Texas

     8:05 pm

Jan. 10

Mississippi St.

     7:05 pm

Jan. 14

@ Ole Miss

     7:00 pm

Jan. 17

@ Florida

     1:05 pm

Jan. 24

Auburn

     12:05 pm

Jan. 29

Alabama

     8:05 pm

Jan. 31

@ LSU

     4:00 pm

Feb. 4

Tennessee

     7:05 pm

Feb. 7

@ Mississippi St.

     2:05 pm

Feb. 11

@ Auburn

     7:00 pm

Feb. 14

Kentucky

     12:05 pm

Feb. 18

LSU

     7:05 pm

Feb. 21

@ South Carolina

     6:00 pm

Feb. 25

@ Alabama

     7:00 pm

Mar. 1

Georgia

     3:05 pm

Mar. 4

Ole Miss

     7:05 pm

Mar. 8

@ Vanderbilt

     1:05 pm