FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – If it feels like Arkansas somehow finds a way to end up playing Southeast Missouri State every season, then your feelings are wrong.
The Cowboys, with their brash collection of home run bombers went through a pair of epic battles with Missouri State, not SeMo, to set up a three-game series with Arkansas that may have been one of the most watchable roller coaster ride of regional battles in NCAA history. Meanwhile, the Hogs found themselves down 10-5 to the Cowboys, a deficit that seemed destined to expand, before the Razorbacks went on a tear, scoring 15 runs in the final three innings to advance to the regional final 20-12.
The final game was more mundane as Arkansas closed the series with a 7-3 win. There were 124 runs scored after Day 1, none of which were put up by Southeast Missouri State. That was just fans' imagination.