No. 6/8 Hogs Journey to Starkville for Collection at No. 15/13 Mississippi State

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The No. 6/8 Arkansas Softball begins a six-game highway journey by touring to Starkville, Miss., for a three-game sequence at No. 15/13 Mississippi State this weekend (April 10-12).

First pitch is ready for five p.m. on Friday, 2 p.m. on Saturday, and 11 a.m. on Sunday. All three video games will probably be streamed on SEC Network+ with Will Kollmeyer and Madisyn Farmer.

The Razorbacks are 33-5 this season with 20 wins coming by run-rule. Arkansas is coming off a sequence sweep of Auburn, profitable by the scores of 10-0, 4-0, and 4-1 to enhance to 8-4 in SEC play. Arkansas didn’t enable an earned run in the course of the sequence, marking the primary time since May 3-4, 2000, that the Razorbacks didn’t enable an earned run over three video games of a convention sequence after they achieved the feat in opposition to Ole Miss in a four-game sequence. The Hogs are outscoring opponents 335-97 this season and have gained 10 of their final 11 video games getting into the matchup.

The Arkansas Razorbacks, one of many nation’s most profitable packages lately, have been ranked within the Top 25 of the NFCA Coaches ballot for a program-best 98 consecutive weeks courting again to the beginning of the 2020 season.  Arkansas is one in all 5 packages nationally to have appeared within the Top 25 of each NFCA Coaches Poll because the begin of the 2020 season, becoming a member of Oklahoma, Florida, UCLA, and Florida State.

FOLLOW ALONG 

Friday, April 10
#6/8 Arkansas at #15/13 Mississippi State – 5 p.m. – SEC Network+ – Live Stats

Saturday, April 11
#6/8 Arkansas at #15/13 Mississippi State – 2 p.m. – SEC Network+ – Live Stats

Sunday, April 12
#6/8 Arkansas at #15/13 Mississippi State – 11 a.m. – SEC Network+ – Live Stats

HERRON IS BRINGING THE HEAT

Robyn Herron is 11-2 this season with three saves, a 1.52 ERA, and 108 strikeouts whereas permitting simply 14 earned runs on 36 hits and 25 walks in 64.2 innings of labor. She is limiting opposing hitters to a .157 batting avg.

She was named SEC Pitcher of the Week on April 7 after pitching eight shutout innings in a sequence win over Auburn with a win and save to go together with 10 strikeouts and three hits allowed whereas limiting opponents to a .115 batting common.

The left-handed senior ranks among the many nationwide leaders in fewest hits allowed per 7 innings (ninth, 3.90), strikeout-to-walk ratio (twenty third, 4.32), strikeouts per seven innings (fifth, 11.7), saves (nineteenth, 3), shutouts (twelfth, 4) and WHIP (twenty first, 0.94).

SOOIE SPINNERS

The Hogs personal a 2.38 ERA in 229 innings with 230 strikeouts whereas limiting opponents to a .215 batting common this season. Arkansas ranked eleventh nationally in ERA and 14th nationally in group strikeouts per seven innings (7.03) getting into the weekend.

Arkansas has registered 54 shutouts because the begin of the 2023 season. The Razorbacks are one in all solely 5 packages to rank within the high 20 nationally in shutouts in 2023, 2024, 2025, becoming a member of the likes of Oklahoma, Boston, Tennessee and Cal State Fullerton. Arkansas ranked thirteenth nationally with 10 shutouts this season.

Arkansas completed 2025 ranked tenth nationally with 15 shutouts and ranked nineteenth nationally in shutouts in 2024 with 14 and seventeenth nationally in 2023 with 17.

WOOO SWEEP SOOIE

With wins by the scores of 10-0 (5 inn.), 4-0, and 4-0 over Auburn final weekend, Arkansas recorded its 14th three-game SEC sweep underneath head coach Corutney Deifel and the twenty fourth in program historical past.

The Razorbacks didn’t enable an earned run within the sequence, marking the primary time since May 3-4, 2000, that they didn’t enable an earned run over three video games of a convention sequence after they achieved the feat in opposition to Ole Miss in a four-game sequence.

The sweep additionally gave the Hogs their sixth consecutive SEC sequence win at Bogle Park, which is essentially the most consecutive sequence win since they gained eight straight league sequence from March 23, 2018 to May 5, 2019.

DEFENDING THE DIAMOND

The Hogs ranked tenth nationally in fielding proportion with a .980 mark getting into the weekend and rank second nationally with 28 double performs this season.

The Razorbacks’ 28 double performs are tied for the second most in program historical past alongside the 2001 group. The single-season program file of 30 was set in 1999.

Arkansas beforehand posted a program-record 11-game errorless streak this season, from Feb. 13-27. The earlier program-best errorless streak was seven from March 21-April 1, 2022.

DAKOTA’S GOLDEN MOMENT 

Arkansas bolstered its roster with the signing of two-time NFCA All-American LF Dakota Kennedy, who transferred from Arizona this previous summer time.

She is batting .353 this season with 9 doubles, a triple, 13 homers, 38 RBI, 17 walks and 43 runs scored. Her 13 round-trippers lead the group. She has a career-high 38 RBI and is one house run away from setting a single-season profession excessive in homers.

Following a sweep over Auburn (April 6), she claimed the celebrated AUSL (Athletes Unlimited Softball League) Golden Ticket, which is introduced to gamers who will probably be chosen within the upcoming AUSL draft on May 3. Kennedy was the second Razorback to obtain the celebrated honor throughout its two years of existence, alongside Bri Ellis (2025).

Kennedy was named D1Softball National Player of the Week after batting .462 with two HR, two doubles, and 7 RBI in the course of the Hogs’ 3-1 exhibiting on March 24-29.

She crushed a walk-off three-run house run to provide Arkansas a 6-4 win over Florida on March 29 to safe the sequence.

KEEP ‘EM IN THE YARD

Arkansas has allowed no house runs in 337 video games in the course of the Courtney Deifel period (2016-present), which accounts for 58.5% of all video games throughout Deifel’s tenure. In the 337 video games by which Arkansas has not allowed a house run, they’ve posted a file of 270-67.

ON RECORD PACE 

Through the primary 38 video games of the season, the Hogs have been placing up some historic numbers.

Arkansas has registered program-best marks in batting common (.370), runs (335), doubles (72), RBI (304), complete bases (621), slugging % (.637), and on-base % (.470).

Additionally, the Hogs’ 33-5 file is tied for the most effective 38-game begin in program historical past alongside the 2021 squad.

IN THE RANKINGS

Arkansas ranked among the many nation’s leaders in quite a few classes getting into the week together with, batting common (sixth, .370), runs per recreation (sixth, 8.82), hits (seventeenth, 361), on-base proportion (4th, .470), RBI per recreation (eighth, 8.00), slugging proportion (eleventh, .637), complete runs (fifth, 335), WHIP (seventeenth, 1.20), group strikeouts per 7 inn. (14th, 7.03), shutouts (thirteenth, 10) and ERA (eleventh, 2.38).

SAYLOR’S HISTORIC START

Freshman RHP Saylor Timmerman is 8-0 with a 2.29 ERA and 37 strikeouts in 52.0 innings pitched this season. Her 8-0 begin is the primary by a Razorback freshman since Mary Haff began 8-0 in 2018.

Timmerman earned her eighth, win pitching 4 innings whereas placing out two and permitting only one unearned run on two hits in a series-finale win over Auburn (April 6).

She picked up her seventh win of the season by retiring 9 out of her final 10 batters confronted whereas placing out 5 and permitting only one run on three hits and three walks in six innings of reduction in a series-clinching win over No. 3/5 Florida (March 29).

SERIES HISTORY

Arkansas and Mississippi State have met 76 occasions, with the Bulldogs holding a slim 40-36 benefit within the all-time sequence. Arkansas has taken 12 of the earlier 14 conferences, courting again to 2018.

Mississippi State took the final sequence between the packages on March 22-24, 2024. The Bulldogs earned the sequence victory by taking the sequence opener, 6-3, and the sequence finale, 15-7 (5 inn.). The Razorbacks gained recreation two 3-0 behind a 2-2 day from Kennedy Miller and a solo house run from Bri Ellis.

KNOW THE FOE

Mississippi State is 33-9 this season with a 5-7 mark in SEC play. The Bulldogs are coming off a 2-1 sequence loss at Florida final weekend (April 3-5).  Mississippi State fell in recreation one 2-0, then evened the sequence with a 9-5 win in recreation two earlier than falling 5-4 on a walk-off fielder’s alternative within the sequence finale on Sunday.

Samantha Ricketts is in her seventh season at Mississippi State with a file of 231-128.

Kiarra Sells leads Mississippi State with a .409 batting common, racking up 47 hits, together with 12 doubles and 13 house runs, whereas driving in 29 runs and scoring 38 runs along with drawing 24 walks and stealing eight bases. Nadia Barbary and Morgan Stiles additionally spotlight the Bulldog offense with batting averages of .349 and 45 hits apiece. Barbary boasts eight doubles, 10 house runs, 33 RBI, and 26 runs scored. Stiles has registered 5 doubles, two homers, and 16 RBI whereas scoring 26 runs and drawing 19 walks.

In the circle, Mississippi State owns a 1.55 group ERA whereas placing out 379 batters and limiting opposing hitters to a .160 batting common in 275.1 innings of labor. Entering the weekend, the Bulldogs ranked second nationally in group ERA and led the nation in strikeout-to-walk ratio (5.49). Peja Goold highlights the MSU pitching workers with a 1.42 ERA and 13-6 file whereas recording 140 strikeouts and limiting opponents to a .140 batting common in 108.2 innings pitched. Alyssa Faircloth additionally performs an integral function on the workers with a 1.74 ERA and 10-3 file with 178 strikeouts in 104.2 innings of labor.

ALL FOR ALEX

The SEC softball group will once more be united on April 11 when all 15 groups take part within the league’s sixth annual “All for Alex” weekend to honor the legacy of Mississippi State’s Alex Wilcox.

Wilcox was a member of the 2018 MSU softball group who impressed the nation together with her brave battle in opposition to ovarian most cancers. That battle finally took her life in the summertime of 2018.

All 15 SEC groups will put on teal uniforms or teal accents on Saturday as a part of “All for Alex” weekend.

30 SEASONS OF RAZORBACK SOFTBALL

2026 marks the thirtieth season of Arkansas Softball. The Razorbacks maintain an all-time program file of 914-817-1 with 4 head coaches within the entirety of its historical past.

Arkansas performed its first official recreation in program historical past on Feb. 20, 1997, which was a 4-3 loss to Cal State Northridge in the course of the San Diego State Classic. The Razorbacks rebounded later that very same day with a 5-4 overcome Hawaii to earn the primary win in program historical past. Designated Player Lisa Flores supplied the profitable runs within the victory with a solo house run within the backside of the sixth inning.

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