The Arkansas Razorbacks baseball team was looking for a chance to host last week’s Super Regionals at Baum-Walker Stadium. However, the one team which had their number did so once again Monday afternoon in the Fayetteville Regional Finals.
For the third time this season, the Texas Christian University Horned Frogs defeated the Razorbacks, this time was a 12-4 win to send TCU into this week’s Super Regionals and end Arkansas’ baseball season at 43-18.
In Monday afternoon’s regional final, playing its third game in 24 hours, Arkansas came out energized and took an early lead. The first three Razorback batters reached and loaded the bases for Ben McLaughlin, who drove home the first run on his sacrifice fly to left.
TCU took the lead with two runs in the bottom half of the second, but Arkansas came roaring back in the fifth inning. Back-toback home runs by Jace Bohrofen, who clobbered his team-leading 16th homer of the year off the batter’s eye, and Jared Wegner, who swatted his 15th of the season, propelled the Hogs back to a 4-2 advantage.
Bohrofen finished the game 1-for-3 with two runs batted in, concluding the year with a teamleading .318/.436/.612 slash line. He racked up a team-best 31 extrabase hits, including 15 doubles, and 52 RBI, second most among all Razorback hitters.
Hagen Smith, who entered in relief of starter Cody Adcock in the second inning, kept the Horned Frogs at bay over his 3.2 innings of work on the mound. The left-hander struck out six while allowing just one run, finishing his All-America campaign with a team-leading 109 strikeouts over 71.2 innings on the year.
After Smith departed, however, TCU broke through for nine more runs against the Arkansas bullpen. The Horned Frogs used a three-run sixth and a five-run eighth to put the game away for good, sealing their 12-4 regionalclinching win.