FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — It was Will McEntire's day as Arkansas's junior righthanded starter threw just 97 pitches and gave up only three hits and one run as the Diamond Hogs defeated the Diamond Dogs, 6-1, on a cloudy, 51-degree Saturday afternoon before 10,080 at Baum-Walker Stadium.
 
The final game of the three-game set is Sunday at 1. Don't be late: it's daylight saving time beginning Sunday at 2 a.m.
 
Coming off a three-game sweep of Northwestern last weekend, Tech (8-6) has now lost two to Arkansas (12-2) and will try Sunday to break the Hogs' seven-game win streak.
 
As they did in Friday's 7-4 loss, the Dogs fell behind early. After four innings, Tech trailed 5-0 Friday and 4-0 Saturday.
 
Saturday, the Hogs got two solo home runs in the second and one in the fourth off Tech starter Rawley Hector (1-2). Ryan Harland and Isaac Crabb pitched 2.1 scoreless innings.
 
No. 8 Arkansas has put together a streak of four three-home-run games in its past five outings and has 32 homers in 14 games.
 
"Rawley was good. Everybody will look at the home runs, but he was in attack mode the whole time," Tech coach Lane Burroughs said. "When he gave up those runs, he climbed up and was right back attacking their hitters. I was very pleased with how he threw today; he gave up the homers, but they were solos.
 
"If we swing the bat like we can, hold them to six runs when they leave the yard three times, we should be right there with a chance to win. We'll bounce back and get it together, and when we do, we'll be hard to beat."
 
McEntire was the guy who was hard to beat Saturday as he pitched the first complete game of his career and the first complete game for Arkansas this season. The former walk-on who became something of a Hog Folk Hero last year when he was forced into duty down the stretch and pitched brilliantly to help Arkansas get to the College World Series, the Bryant, Ark. thinking-man's pitcher faced just four batters over the minimum, struck out six and walked none, got 18 fly ball outs and three groundouts, seldom if ever touching 90 miles per hour.
 
"He's struggled some this year, but he's a veteran pitcher who pitched the game that got them to Omaha last year," Burroughs said. "He was really good today. We didn't make it hard on him. We just hit the ball into the air too much. He had that slider or cutter working, got us out in front of too many pitches. He got us off balance and out of rhythm and we just never really threatened. We had some good swings — the ball Adarius (Myers) hit (to center in the second inning) is probably out of the park without that crosswind today. But, you tip your hat to (McEntire); he was really good."
 
Tech got its run in the top of the fifth to make it 4-1 when Myers reached on a bunt single, advanced to second on the wild throw to first, and scored on an 0-2 single from true freshman Karson Evans, making his second consecutive start and earning his third RBI. Logan McLeod flied out to the warning track to end that inning.
 
Dalton Davis didn't reach base for the first time all season, and designated hitter Walker Burchfield increased his hit streak to six and his on-base streak to 11.
 
"We'll come back tomorrow and see if we can get out of here without getting swept," Burroughs said. "Like I've said, we'll get it going and figure it out, and when we do, it'll be tough to beat us."