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No. 5 Arkansas will open its baseball season Friday as Washington State comes to Fayetteville. Dave Van Horn feels the schedule is a challenging one for the Razorbacks this season.

When Arkansas Razorbacks coach Dave Van Horn offers compliments notes must be taken. Those don’t come often. It was a bit different Monday afternoon after Arkansas’ 12-2 victory over Washington State to sweep the weekend at Baum-Walker Stadium to open the 2025 season.

Landing LHP Zach Root from East Carolina was a massive win for Dave Van Horn and the Razorbacks coaching staff. The ECU transfer was ranked D1Baseball’s No. 2 Impact Pitcher in this year’s transfer portal cycle.

Dave Van Horn has created the beast that is the Arkansas baseball program and now it is time to feed again. This season’s Razorbacks, who are No. 5 in the preseason USA Today Baseball Coaches Poll, open the season Friday with a noon doubleheader at Baum-Walker Stadium against Washington State.

Arkansas Coach Dave Van Horn announced the No. 5 Razorbacks' weekend starters for the College Baseball Series in Arlington, Texas, on Thursday.

ARLINGTON, Texas — Arkansas finally got some production with runners in scoring position in the weekend finale against Michigan Sunday. The Razorbacks took down the Wolverines 8-6, behind a 4-for-4 day at the plate for shortstop Wehiwa Aloy, including his third homer of the season.

Dave Van Horn opted to pinch-hit for Peppi in the sixth with Cam Kozeal and putting a player who has never logged a first base inning in a collegiate game before Friday Night in a desperate search for offense. Kozeal just missed a go-ahead solo homer, doubling off the top of the wall.

Arkansas baseball went 2-1 this weekend in Arlington, but an pitching injury put a damper on the success. Here are three takeaways from the action.

Arkansas baseball faces two teams this weekend that played big roles in ending the Razorbacks' last two seasons, but Dave Van Horn is avoiding the revenge narrative.

In drawing seven walks and scoring five runs, Justin Thomas Jr. made an impression during Arkansas baseball's opening weekend sweep of Washington State.

Arkansas had six right-handed hitters in the lineup Friday to face K-State left-hander Jacob Frost. One of those hitters, first baseman Rocco Peppi, was replaced by the lefty bat Kozeal in the sixth inning.