Key takeaways, box score from Arkansas’ Game 1 win over Grambling
Arkansas has ended its last two games with home runs, albeit one far less dramatic than the other. Just two days after completing a sweep of Illinois-Chicago with a walk-off home run by Chris Lanzilli, Braydon Webb ended Tuesday’s midweek matchup against Grambling State with an eighth-inning grand slam that made it 14-1 and invoked the run-rule. The super senior had been hitless in his first 23 at bats of the season, so head coach Dave Van Horn said he was really happy to see it happen — regardless of how hard the opponent was throwing.
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