It wasn’t a walk-off because the runs came in the seventh and Arkansas was on the road.
But the two runs the Razorbacks scored in the seventh were just as sweet as Arkansas swept past Mississippi State by taking the third game of the series, 5-4, on Sunday from Starkville.
Reagan Johnson started the seventh with a leadoff triple to get things going with nobody out. She didn’t need to even do that, as it happened, because four pitches later Raigan Kramer scored both with a go-ahead home run.
Chenise Delce came on in the seventh to close the door and she retired all three Bulldogs hitters to give Arkansas its seventh win in its last eight games.
Mississippi State had just taken a one-run lead itself in the previous inning. Matalasi Faapito’s two-run homer came off Hannah Camenzind. Neither run counted as earned, though, because the batter before Faapito, Nadia Barbary, reached via error. The error just happened to be on Camenzind herself.
In all the teams combined for five errors in a messy day in the field.
Arkansas is back at Bogle Park on Thursday, Friday and Saturday when the Razorbacks host No. 10 Georgia.
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