Kansas State baseball needed two days to get past Louisiana Tech in its NCAA Fayetteville Regional opener after the game was suspended at the end of five innings late Friday night, but the Wildcats still rolled to a 19-4 victory.

The second-seeded Wildcats (33-24) now will take on host Arkansas (44-14), the No. 5 national seed, at 8 p.m. Saturday in a winners bracket matchup at Baum-Walker Stadium in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

Arkansas, which opened the tournament Friday afternoon with a 17-9 victory over No. 4 seed Southeast Missouri State, saved pitching ace Hagen Smith for the second game. He is 9-1 with a 1.48 earned run average in 15 starts and has struck out 154 batters in 79 innings.

For K-State, Jackson Wentworth will make his seventh start and 27th overall appearance. He has a 4.18 ERA with 107 strikeouts in 75 innings, plus six saves while splitting time between the rotation and the bullpen.

Hudson White and Ben McLaughlin each hit two home runs and combined to drive in 11 runs to lead Arkansas’ 16-hit attack against SEMO, while Kaelen Culpepper hit for the cycle and Chuck Ingram belted a pair of homers in K-State’s win.

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Kansas State vs. Arkansas channel today in Fayetteville Regional: Time, TV schedule

Time: 8 p.m. CT

TV: ESPNU

Streaming: ESPN+

Radio: K-State Sports Network or KStateSports.com/watch

Live stats: KStateSports.com

NCAA Fayetteville Regional complete schedule

AT BAUM-WALKER STADIUM, FAYETTEVILLE, ARK.

Friday, May 31

Game 1 — No. 1 Arkansas 17, No. 4 Southeast Missouri State 9

Game 2 — No. 3 Kansas State 19, No. 2 Louisiana Tech 4

Saturday, June 1

Game 3 — SEMO (34-26) vs. Louisiana Tech (45-18), 2 p.m.

Game 4 — Arkansas (44-14) vs. Kansas State (33-24), 8 p.m.

Sunday, June 2

Game 5 — Arkansas-Kansas State loser vs. SEMO-Louisiana Tech winner, 1 p.m.

Game 6 — Game 4 winner vs. Game 5 winner, 6 p.m.

Monday, June 3

Game 7 — Game 6 winner vs. Game 6 loser (if necessary), 6 p.m.

Arne Green is based in Salina and covers Kansas State University sports for the Gannett network. He can be reached at agreen@gannett.com or on Twitter at @arnegreen.