TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Arkansas baseball erased a 2-0 deficit and finished off a 3-2 win over No. 9 Alabama on Sunday, completing a sweep at Sewell-Thomas Stadium. Camden Kozeal drove in the go-ahead run with a two-out RBI double down the right field line in the top of the eighth inning, and Ryder Helfrick scored on the play.
The 22nd-ranked Razorbacks improved to 24-13 overall and 8-7 in the SEC after taking all three games from a team that had entered the series with an 18-game home win streak. Arkansas also swept a series on the Alabama campus in Tuscaloosa for the first time, a result that matches the program's only other sweep of Alabama in 2015, when the teams met at Hoover Metropolitan Stadium while Alabama's home park was being renovated.
Arkansas tied it at 2-2 in the top of the seventh. Damian Ruiz opened the inning with a double, Kuhio Aloy worked a walk and Nolan Souza drove a 1-2 pitch up the middle to bring Ruiz home from second base. Gabe Gaeckle then stranded the bases loaded in the bottom of the seventh, keeping the game even long enough for Kozeal to deliver in the eighth.
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Alabama finished with 12 stranded runners and went 5 for 19 with runners on base and 2 for 12 with runners in scoring position. Justin Lebron was one of the few steady bats for the Crimson Tide, going 2 for 3 with two walks, two doubles, one run and one RBI. Tate McGuire allowed two runs, one earned, on three hits and two walks with one strikeout in three innings.
Ethan McElvain closed it out for Arkansas, striking out the side in the eighth and retiring every batter he faced over two scoreless innings. The sweep gave Arkansas a road win over a top-10 opponent and one of the program's most complete series victories of the season.
