FAYETTEVILLE -- Arkansas looked like a team that forgot to move its clocks forward Sunday afternoon.
Loyola Marymount beat the Razorbacks 9-0 in the final game of a three-game series in front of announced crowd of 2,427 at Baum Stadium.
Four of the Lions' 11 hits were home runs. The Hogs' three-hit attack consisted of two singles and a double.
It was the most lopsided regular-season nonconference loss since the Razorbacks were beaten 12-2 at Oral Roberts in 2008, and the worst one at home since losing to Long Beach State 16-3 in 2000.
"I don't think they were not ready to play," Arkansas Coach Dave Van Horn said of his team. "The first couple of innings we took some good swings, but we had the bases loaded twice and didn't get a hit. We didn't hit the ball hard. We had a couple of weak ground balls and just got behind.
"Give them [Loyola Marymount] credit."
The Razorbacks (9-3), who scored 13 runs on 14 hits against the Lions on Saturday, left nine runners on base Sunday, including twice leaving the bases loaded.
Arkansas got a one-out hit from Bobby Wernes in the second, but a double play ended the threat. The Razorbacks' other hits were a one-out double from Carson Shaddy in the seventh and a one-out single from Brett McAfee in the ninth.
"We hit five or six balls on the nose that were caught," Van Horn said.
Arkansas freshman starter Keaton McKinney (1-1) breezed through the first three innings before Loyola Marymount (9-6) got to McKinney in the fourth.
David Fletcher led off the inning with his first career home run, and an out later the Lions used a single from David Edwards and a two-run home run from Sean Watkins to make it 3-0. Austin Miller walked and eventually scored on stolen base.
McKinney's day was done a batter later.
"All of the sudden we're down 3-0 before we really knew what happened in that inning," Van Horn said.
The Razorbacks threw eight pitchers in the game, including five in the final four innings.
"We're not known as a home run-hitting team by any stretch of the imagination," said Loyola Marymount Coach Jason Gill, whose team is picked to win the West Coast Conference. "We were disappointed the first two days how we swung the bat, but it [Arkansas] has got some really good arms over there.
"We showed a little resilience today. We let them sleep in with the time change and didn't take batting practice. We needed to have full energy and have a good mentality and attitude today. They came out with that for sure."
Loyola Marymount used a two-run home run from Edwards in the fifth off Arkansas reliever Jackson Lowery to make it 6-0, then set the final score in the ninth on a three-run home run from Tanner Donnels off Kyle Pate.
Van Horn said winning 2 of 3 games against a team picked to win its conference was good, but he admitted that Sunday's performance was disappointing.
"When you have a chance to sweep somebody, you've got to come out with better approach, I think," he said. "I'm just disappointed because it wasn't a little closer ballgame."
Sports on 03/09/2015