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HawgBeat – Stats, results from Arkansas baseball Fall World Series – Game 1
FAYETTEVILLE — The Arkansas baseball team began its 2023 Fall World Series on Monday afternoon at Baum-Walker Stadium and the Gray team and Cardinal squad walked off the field tied 9-9 in an intrasquad scrimmage that featured sloppy defense, yet impressive pitching performances.
Head coach Dave Van Horn, who is entering his 22nd season with Arkansas, said the game isn’t over and the team will finish things up Tuesday.
“Well it’s not over yet,” Van Horn said. “Last year we had to walk off the field in Game 3 because we ran out of pitching, because we had already doubled up like three guys. Today was about as ugly as I’ve ever seen.”
Both teams posted three errors each, which resulted in 10 of the 18 runs scored being earned. There were 16 combined walks and 22 combined free passes in the contest.
“We had a windy day and we changed our practice play like three weeks ago, the beginning of it, and we did this,” Van Horn said. “And we talked about the wind. It was a perfect day to do it. Even windier than this, but you would’ve never known it by watching today.
“And we’ve got a catcher playing second base. Welcome to fall baseball. We’ve got some guys that are a little banged up that aren’t playing. It got a little ugly and it might get uglier. But tomorrow we’re going to finish this game and we’re going to play the second game right after that and I don’t know how we’re going to play Thursday, because we don’t have any pitching left.”
Van Horn probably would’ve been more upset at his team’s faults had his daughter not told him midway through the scrimmage that she might be having triplets.
“Anything that happened after the fourth inning, I don’t remember,” Van Horn said. “Because my daughter and my son-in-law came down and told me that my daughter’s not going to have one — I don’t have any grandkids — and probably not going to have two. There may be more. This is all natural. So I’m kind of freaked out right now, I’ll be honest with you.”
Led by freshman right-hander Gabe Gaeckle on the mound, the Gray team posted four runs in the top of the second inning to take a big lead early. Gaeckle kept the Cardinal lineup at bay by throwing three innings and allowing one earned run on four hits while striking out four and walking two.
“He was lights out today,” Tarleton State transfer Jack Wagner said. “He did pretty well. He had his heater working and then both of his spin pitches — that curveball and slider.”
The Gray squad added a fifth run on an RBI sacrifice fly from Hudson Polk in the top of the third, but Cardinal responded with one run in the bottom of the third and a four-spot in the bottom of the fourth.
With veteran righty Will McEntire on the mound, Cardinal took advantage of a pair of fielding errors to tie the contest up at 5-5 after four innings.
Sophomore Cooper Dossett was on the bump for Cardinal in the top of the fifth and he saw a run cross when freshman Nolan Souza hit an infield fly to shortstop Wehiwa Aloy, who dropped the ball and then had a throwing error trying to get Kendall Diggs out at home. Diggs scored to put Gray up 6-5 and they still had runners on the corners with two outs.
Dossett then issued back-to-back walks to load the bases and then allow Gray’s seventh run to cross.
Kansas transfer left-hander Stone Hewlett loaded the bases in the bottom of the fifth to result in sophomore righty Christian Foutch coming on in relief. One run crossed on an RBI sacrifice fly from freshman catcher Ryder Helfrick and another crossed to tie it at 7-7 via a throwing error from Jayson Jones at third base.
Helfrick led the team with three RBIs on the day, and Van Horn said the freshman could end up being an everyday player.
“He’s just a serious freshman,” Van Horn. “He takes it serious and he has a chance to be an everyday player as a freshman for us.”
A wild pitch from Foutch allowed freshman designated hitter Kade Smith to score and give Cardinal an 8-7 lead, which was its first of the day.
The Gray squad took the lead right back with sophomore righty Gage Wood on the mound for Cardinal in the top of the sixth. An RBI single from Diggs tied things up and a wild pitch from Wood allowed Parker Rowland to cross home and give Gray a one-run lead.
Tarleton State transfer Jack Wagner tied the game back up in the next half frame with a one-out home run that traveled 397 feet to left field.
Wood returned to the mound in the top of the seventh with a much meaner attitude and that resulted in him striking out the side — all on fastballs in the 92-93 mile per hour range.
“He’s had a great fall,” Van Horn said of Wood. “You can tell he’s changed his body a little bit. He’s thinned it up. He’s in really good shape. He just lived in the mid-90s. Nothing but strikes. I don’t know if he had a walk going into today.”
After the Cardinal team went down in order in the bottom of the seventh, the game was called at 9-9, but as previously mentioned, Van Horn clarified that they will be finishing it on Tuesday.
The No. 21 Missouri Tigers enter their final regular season game with the least injury questions than they have had for most other games since the beginning of November.
But, there was a few new additions to the team’s availability report ahead of the Week 14 game against Arkansas. Below is the full availability report for the Tigers and the Arkansas Razorbacks.
This post will be updated throughout the week with new availability reports posted Thursday, Friday and 90 minutes before the 3:15 p.m. kick off.
Missouri Initial Availability Report:
Note: Missouri players with injuries previously reported to be season-ending are not listed on this post.
• DB Shamar McNeil – OUT
• LS Brett Le Blanc – OUT
• OL Logan Reichert – OUT
• RB Kewan Lacy – QUESTIONABLE
True freshman running back Kewan Lacy took one carry against Mississippi State in Week 13 before exiting the game with injury. Head coach Eli Drinkwitz said in the week leading up to that game that he would expect Lacy to see more opportunities going forward.
Le Blanc handles punting long snapping duties for Missouri, while Trey Flint takes care of field goals and extra points. Expect Flint to slide in for Le Blanc Saturday.
Arkansas Initial Availability Report:
• DL Nico Dalliver – OUT
• DB Jaylon Braxton – OUT
• K Kyle Ramsey – OUT
• DL Anton Juncaj – DOUBTFUL
• RB Braylen Russel – QUESTIONABLE
• DB Anthony Switzer – QUESTIONABLE
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Arkansas Children’s, a private, non-profit paediatric care organisation, has partnered with Press Ganey to improve paediatric patient experience.
Beginning 1 January 2025, this collaboration is aimed at bolstering the paediatric care organisation’s commitment to improving service and care for patients and their families.
Arkansas Children’s executive vice-president and chief operating officer Jamie Wiggins said: “We believe that every interaction with our patients is an opportunity to make a meaningful impact.
“By leveraging Press Ganey’s expertise and industry-leading pediatric benchmarks, we will gain valuable insights that will empower our teams to continuously improve and innovate in delivering compassionate care.”
Press Ganey will offer its patient experience and provider star-rating solutions to help Arkansas Children’s monitor feedback and enhance care quality.
The partnership will enable Arkansas Children’s to leverage Press Ganey’s AI-powered text analytics.
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This will help analyse open-ended feedback from online reviews and post-visit surveys, providing an understanding of patient and family perspectives.
The goal is to gain actionable insights that can further improve the patient experience.
Press Ganey provides experience measurement, data analytics and insights to health systems and caters to more than 65% of all freestanding paediatric hospitals.
This partnership will allow Arkansas Children’s to benefit from shared learning and innovation within Press Ganey’s network of institutions.
Press Ganey CEO and chairman Patrick Ryan said: “Families trust Arkansas Children’s to provide the highest quality care for their children.
“This partnership reflects their dedication to listening to families, responding to their needs, and innovating to create a world-class paediatric healthcare experience.”
Arkansas Children’s network includes two paediatric hospitals, a nursery alliance, statewide clinics, a research institute, a USDA nutrition centre, and numerous education and outreach programmes.
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PHILLIPS COUNTY, Ark. — A suspect in a Helena-West Helena homicide caused a barricade situation Tuesday as he was being processed in the Phillips County Detention Center.
Authorities said a prisoner who was being processed at the jail was able to get hold of some type of instrument and cause harm to himself.
He barricaded himself in the processing area and pepper spray was used to subdue him.
The prisoner was taken to the local emergency room for treatment. No one else was injured.
Helena-West Helena Police Chief Vincent Bell said he doesn’t know much more about what happened at the jail, but said the inmate is connected to a fatal shooting Tuesday afternoon.
The suspect was being held in connection to an incident where a man was shot dead in the doorway of O’Reilly Auto Parts in West Helena.
The shooting was the result of a disagreement that started in front of a motel, and the victim ran to the front of O’Reilly’s where he was fatally shot.
Chief Bell offered no details on a motive or the name of the victim.
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