Arkansas baseball needed a tonic after the weekend saw the Diamond Hogs lose their first series of the season.
Arkansas Pine-Bluff was the cure to spell the ills.
The sixth-ranked Razorbacks had no trouble with the visitors from the southeast part of the Natural State, beating UAPB, 15-0, in seven innings of the first game of a doubleheader on Tuesday. Game Two was scheduled to begin 45 minutes after Game One ended.
Arkansas collected 15 hits and walked eight times in the victory. [autotag]Brady Slavens[/autotag] led all hitters from the 2-hole. The first baseman went 4 for 5 with two home runs and six RBI. [autotag]Dylan Leach[/autotag], who had five hits and went for the cycle in his last start behind the plate, went 2 for 4 with two RBI and two runs.
Isaac Bracken was the only Arkansas pitcher to give up a hit. Kacy Higgins doubled for the Lions in the top of the seventh. [autotag]Kole Ramage[/autotag] picked up his first win of the season, striking out five of the nine batters he faced.