Jacob House had four RBI and Dallas Keuchel pitched six solid innings to lead the No. 7 Arkansas Razorback baseball team to a 9-3 victory over the Tennessee Volunteers at Lindsey Nelson Stadium in Knoxville, Tenn., on Friday night.

Also:

• ArkansasRazorbacks.com: Box Score
• Alex Abrams: Hogs Get Help From Tennessee Pitcher, Inside Pitch
• Rick Fires: Hogs’ quick lead stuns Volunteers

Updated 4/25/09 9:30 a.m.

The back-to-back sweeps are the first for the Hogs since 1999, when, by the way, they won the SEC overall championship.  With the wins, the #15 Hogs are likely to continue their ascent in the USA Today/ESPN poll when it comes out later today.

The thing that caught our attention this weekend was the clutch hitting.  All 10 runs Saturday were driven in by 2-out hits…all of them.  That’s an incredible stat.  It wasn’t just one or two guys either.  The usual suspects – Ben Tschepikow (6-14, HR, 5 RBIs), Chase Leavitt (6-11, 3 R, 3 RBIs, 5 BB) and Andy Wilkins (5-13, RBI) did their thing.

But both Ryan Cisterna (4-12, HR, 2 RBIs) and Jacob House (4-9, 3 RBIs) showed signs of breaking out of their season-long slumps.  Cisterna came into the weekend hitting .137, while House was .232.  Cisterna hit the game-winning home run Friday night.

The Hogs bats will probably cool off at some point, but after six SEC games, they are averaging eight runs per contest.  That, coupled with solid pitching and good defense, has a smile on Coach Van Horn’s face for the moment.

The second half of the conference schedule is much tougher (Georgia, LSU, Ole Miss), so the Hogs need to make some hay while they can.  A mid-week game against always scrappy Missouri State is on the plate Wednesday, before the Razorbacks host Mississippi State (2-4, 13-9) next weekend.  See you at the Baum!

Sophomore Jacob House entered the Razorback baseball team’s game with Kansas on Wednesday evening as a pinch hitter in the eighth inning and delivered not once but twice including a walk-off home run in the bottom of the 10th to lead No. 21 Arkansas to a 9-8 victory over Kansas at Baum Stadium.

Also:

• ArkansasRazorbacks.com: Box Score (PDF)
• Vernon Tarver: House Plays Hero Role Again, Bolsinger Back In Weekend Rotation
• Rick Fires: House’s home run in 10th lifts Hogs
• Nate Allen: House goes yard to lead Hogs past Jayhawks

Updated 2/26/09 7:30 a.m.

It’s certainly an understatement to say that momentous changes have occurred in Razorback athletics off the field over the past 12 months.

But each day this week we’ve chosen to focus on the moments on the field that we’ll all remember in the years ahead…the best Razorback games of the 2007-08 seasons.

Coming in at #5 is the only baseball game of our countdown.  And with Coach Dave Van Horn and his program going through a rebuilding year in 2008, it turned out to be one of the few highlights in what was mostly a season to forget.

With nine conference games remaining, the Diamond Hogs entered their series in early May against #13 South Carolina with a below .500 conference record.

And things weren’t looking very promising for the home team during the crucial Friday night opening game after the Gamecocks built an 11-8 lead heading into the bottom of the ninth inning.

With two outs and down to their last strike, Hogs’ junior outfielder Chase Leavitt beat out an infield single to load the bases and set up the heroics of freshman pinch hitter Jacob House.

South Carolina vs. Arkansas 2008

It was the second year in a row that a pinch hitter had provided the biggest bang on fireworks night at Baum Stadium.  In 2007, outfielder Wayne Hrozek hit a two-run double in the 10th inning to clinch the Western Division title for the Razorbacks.

After the biggest hit of his life, House was humble when interviewed after the game:

“I’m just trying to get it to the next guy,” House said. “I just wanted to get a hit somewhere and keep the inning going, but then it went out of here.”

“When I hit it, I thought ‘man that felt good.’”

The Gamecocks never recovered that weekend after the ninth inning collapse.  The Hogs would go on to record their only conference series sweep of 2008.

South Carolina vs. Arkansas 2008

Now let’s keep the magic going!  GO HOGS!

Jacob House hit a 1-0 pitch into the visiting bleachers for a walk-off grand slam home run to lift the Arkansas baseball team to a 12-11 victory over the 13th-ranked South Carolina Gamecocks at Baum Stadium on Friday night.

Also:

• Hogwired.com: Box Score (PDF)
• YouTube (Video): Arkansas vs. South Carolina Highlights
• Vernon Tarver: Bringin Down The House, Diamond Hogs Notebook
• Jerry L. Reed: Razorbacks Climb Out Of Deep Hole To Win
• Rick Fires: Grand slam in 9th starts House party
• Chris Cocoles: Forsythe shouldering big load
• Nate Allen: House call

Updated 5/12/08 9:30 a.m.