The dance continues for the TCU baseball team after the Horned Frogs dispatched No. 3 Arkansas the past two days, including 12-4 on Monday to win the Fayetteville Regional. The team advances to the super regionals for the first time in six years.
TCU won its 40th game of the season.
The Frogs got four home runs against the host Razorbacks, two from Kurtis Byrne and one from Tre Ricardson and Austin Davis.
Arkansas took a 1-0 lead in the top of the first inning on an RBI sac fly to left.
Byrne led off the TCU second with a single to center and three batters later, Davis hit a two run single to give the Frogs a 2-1 lead. The Hogs scored three in the fifth and grabbed a 4-2 edge. TCU got one back in the fifth on Richardson’s RBI ground out.
Then the Frogs erupted for nine runs in the final three innings.
Davis hit a two-run home run to left that pushed TCU in front 5-4. After a walk and Arkansas error put two runners on, Cole Fontenelle singled through the right side to score Elijah Nunez for a 6-3 lead. Byrne hit a solo home run in the seventh.
Fontenelle doubled down the left field line in the eighth to extend the TCU lead to 9-4. Then Richardson and Byrne followed with back to back home runs. Byrne went 4 for 5 while Fontenelle and Richardson each drove in three runs. Davis went 2 for 3 with four runs batted in.
Cam Brown got the start on the mound for TCU and struck out four in 4 1/3 innings. Ben Abeldt came in relief and got the win with one hit, no runs, two walks and four strikeouts in 4 2/3 innings.
TCU went 3-0 at Fayetteville with a 12-4 win over Arizona on Friday and 20-5 win over Arkansas on Sunday. The Frogs got five stolen bases on Monday to break the program single season record from 1996 (139).
Brayden Taylor went 4 for 5 with a home run and six RBIs against Arizona. Richardson and Karson Bowen each had three hits and Byrne also homered.
Richardson went off on Sunday vs Arkansas.
He hit three home runs including grand slams in the first and second innings and had 11 RBIs and five hits. Taylor went 4 for 6 with a homer and four RBIs. Bowen went 3 for 4.
Richardson’s three home run game was the first for TCU since 2010.
His 11 RBIs are a program single game record.
Richardson is from Kingwood, TX and transferred from Baylor. TCU has seven on the roster from the Dallas-Fort Worth area, Abeldt (McKinney Boyd), River Ridings (Prestonwood), Brown (Flower Mound), Luke Savage (Prestonwood), Mason Speaker (All Saints), Jake Duer (FM Marcus) and Nunez (Martin).
