Razorbacks face Aggies to wrap up regular season

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COLLEGE STATION, Texas – The 14th-ranked Razorback baseball team goes into the final series of the 2017 regular season this weekend as it travels to face No. 24 Texas A&M for a three-game set starting on Thursday at 6:30 p.m. at Blue Bell Park.

Arkansas remains well within reach of winning the SEC Western Division as just a game and a half separates it from leader LSU. The Hogs are in the midst of quite the turnaround from a season ago that saw them finish last in the conference with only seven conference wins. Now, Arkansas comes in with 16 conference wins this season and has a chance at its fifth division championship since joining the SEC.

The Hogs are coming off their fifth series victory of the conference season after taking two out of three from Vanderbilt last week. Much of their success came from the pitching staff as junior Trevor Stephan totaled 11 strikeouts in seven innings for the second-straight week. Stephan gets the call again to start game one this week against Texas A&M as he comes in with a team-leading 3.21 ERA and 27 strikeouts over his last three starts.

Offensively, the bats contributed to the series win, as well. Luke Bonfield delivered Arkansas’ fifth walk-off victory of the season when his single in the bottom of the ninth scored Jax Biggers from second base for the game one win.

On Sunday, the Hogs handedly defeated the Commodores, 7-1, with the help of three home runs, one each from Grant Koch, Dominic Fletcher, and Chad Spanberger. Arkansas continues to lead the conference with 66 home runs as a team, while five different players have eight home runs or more. Fletcher has the hot bat as of late as he has four home runs in his last five games and leads all SEC freshman with 10 home runs this year.

Thursday’s game one is scheduled for a 6:30 p.m. CT start in College Station

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