Highlights: Hogs Defeat South Carolina | RAZORBACK BASEBALL

It's SEC baseball at Palmwalker Stadium on a windy Friday night in northwest Arkansas. The third-ranked Razorbacks return for their first home conference series. A couple of old pals ready to lead their respective teams as the Hawks host the South Carolina Gamecocks. Data pitch. Gave up a homer to the first batter he faced, Federico, whose father coached here in a couple of games against Arkansas with ULM as Kennedy Jones goes down on strikes. Just a fastball by Root. That looked like a changeup. He turned over and just kind of faded away. Jones just a little too aggressive with two strikes. He's squinting and shaking off signs and finds one to his liking on his 20th pitch. Here's another payoff to LeCroy and it's on the inside corner for strike three called. So a perfect inning for Root, including a couple of strikeouts. All the police in Tucson were there threatening to arrest them. That ball shot down the line and left and it's going to dump in fair. Cut off nicely in the corner by Stone. His throw to second base won't get Kozol. Hard hit. Base hit. Past the dive of the shortstop Kazmar. Kozol around third. A bobble by Stone. Arkansas will take a 1-0 lead on the run-scoring single from Justin Thomas Jr. I would think he'd be pretty good at a pickup basketball game. He can just tell he's playing above the rim. He'd be good at a lot of things. Flip to first. A chance for a pickoff and Kazmar erased. Hey Paul, appreciate your time. Good luck. Okay guys. Davidon lifting one to left. This ball starting to carry. Nearing the wall. It hits off the top of the fence and Stone falls down. And Davidon after rounding second base will hold with a double. A chopper to short. Kazmar had it go through his legs and into center. And two runs will score on what should have been the final line of the inning. Torch down the line and right. Will this stay fair? How about that? It hit the chalk. And then ricochets around Mayshore. Cahill, if he was ever going to get a triple, it was there, but he'll stop with a two-out double. Fifth. Hard hit. Iredale comes up with it. What a throw to first. Defensive brilliance all homestand long from Brent Iredale making the difficult look easy at the high corner. As they win Friday night games at home. That ball is dumped out in the left center field for a base hit. Kojo will turn and go to third. The throw will follow him there. Somewhat close and he's safe. And there's Razorbacks on the corner so nobody out. Talked about just spraying balls to left field. There it is again. Well, there you go. Base hit for Davidon. His fourth of the game. Helfrich will score. Thomas Jr. holds a third base. What an amazing month for Charles Davidon, the Canadian. Hit after hit. Run after run. Hawks lead 9-2. Hitter's count for Vaheva Loy. That ball's drilled high in the air. Deep right center field. How about an opposite field? Three-run bomb. Tenth home run of the year from Vaheva. He just called ballgame. And the Razorbacks run rule the Gamecocks 12-2 to take the series opener.