Razorback Report: Week 4

Overall Record: 15-1
Streak: W11

In The Polls – Week 3
Baseball America – #3
D1Baseball – #3
USA Today Coaches – #3
NCBWA – #6
Perfect Game – #10

Week 4 Results (5-0)
Tuesday, March 4 – vs. ULM – W, 14-1 (7)
Wednesday, March 5 – vs. ULM – W, 15-3 (7)
Friday, March 7 – vs. Portland – W, 20-3 (7)
Saturday, March 8 – vs. Portland – W, 10-0 (7)
Sunday, March 9 – vs. Portland – W, 5-3

Week 5 Schedule
Tuesday, March 11 – vs. UCA – 6 p.m. [SEC Network+]
Friday, March 14 – at #13 Ole Miss – 6:30 p.m. [SEC Network+]
Saturday, March 15 – at #13 Ole Miss – 1:30 p.m. [SEC Network+]
Sunday, March 16 – at #13 Ole Miss – 1:30 p.m. [SEC Network+]

Co-Player of the Week
INF Wehiwa Aloy

Stats (5 GP/5 GS): .632/.667/1.316 (12-for-19), 10 R, 4 2B, 3 HR, 11 RBI, 25 TB, 1 BB

Wehiwa Aloy recorded five multi-hit games and three multi-RBI performances during the Razorbacks’ perfect 5-0 week, slashing a team-leading .632/.667/1.136 with four doubles, three home runs and 11 RBI to power the offense. Aloy racked up an SEC-leading 12 hits and totaled 25 bases during the week, belting a pair of home runs, his first career multi-homer game, in the series opener against Portland and logging consecutive four-RBI efforts in each of the first two games of the weekend series sweep of the Pilots.

Co-Player of the Week
INF Brent Iredale

Stats (5 GP/5 GS): .500/.600/1.500 (7-for-14), 8 R, 2 2B, 4 HR, 14 RBI, 21 TB, 5 BB

Brent Iredale made history at the plate during the Razorbacks’ 5-0 week, slashing .500/.600/1.500 with two doubles, four home runs, and 14 RBI, including an eight-RBI game in the series opener against Portland. He became the first Razorback since 1999 to record eight RBI in a game, and his 11 total RBI in the series sweep of the Pilots mark the most by a Razorback in a three-game series in the Dave Van Horn era (2003-pres.). Iredale, who logged two multi-hit games and three multi-RBI performances during Arkansas’ undefeated week, recorded his second multi-homer game of the season in the series opener against Portland.

Pitcher of the Week
LHP Zach Root

Stats (1 APP/1 GS): 1-0, 0.00 ERA, 6.0 IP, 3 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 10 S0

Zach Root logged his first quality start of the season and recorded his second double-digit strikeout performance of the year in the Hogs’ series-clinching win against Portland. The left-hander matched his career high with 10 strikeouts over six shutout innings against the Pilots, allowing just three hits and issuing one walk to improve to 2-0. Root, who has struck out eight or more batters in all four of his starts on the mound this season, has fanned a team-leading 36 batters in a team-high 21.1 innings of work this year.

Freshman of the Week
RHP Carson Wiggins

Stats (1 APP): 1 SV, 0.00 ERA, 1.0 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 1 SO

Carson Wiggins sealed the Razorbacks’ weekend series sweep of Portland with a perfect inning of relief in the series finale to earn his third save of the season. The hard-throwing right-hander struck out one in his inning of work against the Pilots. Wiggins’ team-leading three saves are tied with LSU’s Casan Evans (3) for the most by a freshman pitcher in the SEC this season.

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