Gabe Gaeckle needed only 12 pitches to get through the second inning with a strikeout and a couple of groundouts.
Missouri 2, Arkansas 1 — End 1st Inning
Wehiwa Aloy hit a 1-out infield single and scored on Cam Kozeal’s deep sac fly to right-center field.
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Logan Maxwell (hit by pitch) and Brent Iredale (walk) were stranded in scoring position when Kuhio Aloy struck out at a high 3-2 fastball. It was his fifth strikeout of the weekend.
Missouri 2, Arkansas 0 — Middle 1st Inning
The Tigers’ first 3 hitters reached safely on 2 hits and an error by second baseman Nolan Souza.
Cameron Benson’s RBI single scored Keegan Knutson after his leadoff single. Kaden Peer, who reached on the error, scored on a 2-out RBI single by Cayden Nicoletto.
The inning ended when Nicoletto was caught stealing at second base.
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Gabe Gaeckle needed 35 pitches to get through that inning.
Pregame
Arkansas and Missouri are set to get underway at 1 p.m. on another cold, overcast day in Fayetteville.
Both of today’s games will be 7 innings in regulation. The second game will begin 45 minutes after the conclusion of the first game.
The Razorbacks won a 7-inning game 21-3 on Saturday. It was the most runs allowed by Mizzou in an SEC game and its worst loss as an SEC team.
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Gabe Gaeckle will be on the mound for Arkansas today, opposite Mizzou lefty Brady Kehlenbrink.
Here is Arkansas’ starting lineup:
LF Charles Davalan
SS Wehiwa Aloy
RF Logan Maxwell
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3B Brent Iredale
1B Cam Kozeal
DH Kuhio Aloy
C Ryder Helfrick
2B Nolan Souza
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CF Justin Thomas
Matt Jones
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Matt Jones is the managing editor of WholeHogSports.com and hosts the Hawgs Sports Network Daily Podcast. He is a member of the Football Writers Association of America and National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association, and voter for the Heisman Trophy. He has a bachelor’s and master’s degree in journalism from the University of Arkansas.
Rex Nelson has been senior editor and columnist at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette since 2017, and he has a biweekly podcast called “Southern Fried.”
After graduating from Ouachita Baptist University in 1981, he was a sportswriter for the Arkansas Democrat for a year before becoming editor of Arkadelphia’s Daily Siftings Herald. He was the youngest editor of a daily in Arkansas at age 23. Rex was then news and sports director at KVRC-KDEL from 1983-1985.
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He returned to the Democrat as assistant sports editor in 1985. From 1986-1989, he was its Washington correspondent. He left to be Jackson T. Stephens’ consultant.
Rex became the Democrat-Gazette’s first political editor in 1992, but left in 1996 to join then-Gov. Mike Huckabee’s office. He also served from 2005-09 in the administration of President George W. Bush.
From 2009-2018, he worked stints at the Communications Group, Arkansas’ Independent Colleges and Universities, and Simmons First National Corp.
Dylan Sherman is a business reporter for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. He is based in Northwest Arkansas and focuses on Tyson Foods Inc. and the transportation industry. A graduate of the University of Missouri, he has been with the newspaper since 2023.
